Ooohhh, look! The GOP used the Liberian flag in a tweet celebrating the Fourth of July, American Independence Day! This is almost as bad as when the Trump campaign used images of Russian military equipment and soldiers in an ad urging people to “Support Our Troops.” (Come to think of it, they probably were his troops.) Or when the GOP’s “Commitment to America” ad featured Russian children and oil rigs.
But look, we’re not petty. We’re not going to make a big deal about using a stylized American flag–that just so happens to be stylized into a design more closely resembling the North African nation’s flag on the birthday of our great nation. (And the imagery of conservatives using, even accidentally, the flag of a nation formed by freed Black slaves being repatriated back to Africa isn’t lost.) But we just ask for consistency: Will Sean Hannity and other conservatives go apeshit crazy over this like they did when the US Olympic Committee changed a previously-stylized flag on its logo? Yeah, I don’t think so, and that wasn’t even on Independence Day.
Editor’s note: The story has been updated to include a screenshot after the GOP deleted the tweet about five hours after posting it.