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If one believed that the star-spangled banner flapped “o’er the land of the free,” then protest during its veneration – not against it, as was deliberately misconstrued – is precisely the affordance that the ritual symbolizes.

And after he was elected, Trump challenged NFL owners to release any player who kneeled in protest during “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

The angry Canadian crowd jeered the American Olympic figure skating medalist Michelle Kwan and booed “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

The choir is best known for a recording that features the men singing “The Star-Spangled Banner” interspersed with clips of Trump reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.

It’s the sort of star-spangled prestige production that half a century ago would have starred Henry Fonda, Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood and been filmed in black-and-white, even though color was an option.