Only a slight bit of disagreement with you here (love your point about Trump being anything but inept).
Trump doesn’t give two shits about the flag, but he does give two shits about using the flag to build his brown-shirts, his militarized police force, and controversy averse employers into a productive alignment against the new manufactured ‘common enemy (people of color, especially of the ‘uppity’ rights-demanding variety).
What was it that the Triumph of the Will documentary covered again?