Donald Trump fans are adopting upside-down flags in a show of support since the former president was convicted last week of 34 felonies in his hush money trial.
The flag represents a sign of distress that has been embraced by Jan. 6 insurrectionists and those who baselessly argue that the 2020 election was rigged.
Trump supporters are posting photos and videos of themselves with the flags, including Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Trump's one-time national security adviser and pardoned convict Gen. Michael Flynn.
Country music star Jason Aldean posted an image of an inverted flag to his 4.4 million followers on Facebook after Trump's verdict Thursday.
"Scary times in our country right now, man," he wrote. "When a former POTUS gets treated like this by our justice system, what does that mean for the rest of us?"
The upside-down flag has become more widely known since the banner was photographed flying from the Alexandria, Virginia, home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito after the Capitol insurrection following Trump's loss in the 2020 presidential election.
Alito claimed he knew nothing about the flag flying from his home, saying his wife had run it up their flagpole during a political spat with neighbors over Trump and the election.
Alito was asked by lawmakers to recuse himself from decisions involving the Jan. 6 insurrection and Trump's appeal for immunity in his attempts to overthrow the election, citing an apparent bias. He has refused.
Dozens of the upside-down flags hung outside a library in Monrovia in Los Angeles County for Memorial Day were turned upside down overnight Thursday by mystery Trump backers, KTLA reported.
"The city was very surprised to learn someone inverted the flags, which were set up in honor of our community's veterans. We were able to reset them correctly with the help of staff and community members," Monrovia City Manager Dylan Feik told CNN.
The Heritage Foundation flies the upside-down flag.
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) June 1, 2024
So the American Right, which has in recent years fetishized the flag, now desecrates it.
I’m sure there’s a whole sociological or psychological literature on how fetishizing by unstable people so easily turns to loathing. pic.twitter.com/1xbU23Mq9k
The conservative Heritage Foundation think tank also posted an image appearing to show the American flag hanging upside down at it Washington, D.C., headquarters.
