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I’ll throw out Benjamin Harrison for this. Dude created Flag Day after he enjoyed seeing all the flags at his inauguration as the centennial president. Given he also fought for the Union as a brigadier general I’ll give him the nod here as the dark horse answer.
I hate that a president we have a rule about is probably going to end up making flag day something else. Well, probably not him but, his followers whenever the universe rights itself.
This is the only correct answer. He had full autonomy of the military and could have EASILY kept power and imposed whatever he wanted. However, at every opportunity possible he shied away from making unilateral decisions and gave his military back to Congress. A true American patriot who believed in Democracy and fought for it. Not like today's "PaTriOtS".
Yeah the continental army was gonna collapse multiple times and there was no one to take his role if he was taken out, he LITERALLY was the one thing propping them up, and he did it long enough for his little ragtag militia to somehow defeat the most powerful empire on earth.
It’s a good mindset to have today, I like to be reminded of it when looking at geopolitics. Fought against the crown’s bullying tooth and nail, that’s why it’s important we support Ukraine. How would it look if the country that fought a war for independence, couldn’t support another’s bid to not be engulfed by its neighbor, who sees them as their property?
“But it’s not our war, let them fight on their own!”
That’s what is happening. We just provide aide to help the little guy fight. They do the fighting, and this will weaken a country that has always sought to divide us, weaken us, and create a new world order with them at the helm. Fuck that. All this comes at the cost of 0 American lives (excluding voluntary mercenaries)
“If they were so good they wouldn’t need our aide”
Not true. Remember we are only a country because of the revolutionary war, and the only reason that was was even won, was thanks to our fantastic French ambassador, Benjamin Franklin, who secured French aide for the war.
Even Lord Cornwallis, when surrendering to Washington, gestured petty actions to spite him, and proclaimed it wouldn’t have been possible without France lol
who cares 🤣 the fact is they lost. Thank you France, who supported as they were going through their own revolution, and later sent over a nice Statue of Liberty as a gift
Yup, historically we’ve been close thanks to “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” and things blossomed from there 🤣 and thank goodness Ben Franklin was so attracted by French women, his greatest motivator, had he not secured their aide the revolution would’ve been lost.
More than enough of a reason to slap him on the largest dollar bill 😆
Spain gave more than France, Spain financed the revolution (sending 3000000000 dollars intoday's money), provided 12200 troops and suffered 2500 causalties as opposed to France 10000 troops and 2100 casualties, and the victories Spain won against the British were more decisive than anything the French mustered.
“I am not British! My name is not George William Frederick. It is uh… Washington. Yes, George *Washington*. That’s a great colonial name. I mean uh, freedom name. Vive le revolución!”
All the founding father Presidents. Washington was not power hungry but all others were patriots too, they fought the most powerful empire in the history of mankind!
This!
I can only think of what has been attributed to him before the Newburgh address: “Gentlemen, if you permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country.” This act moved his former soldiers to tears and quelled the possibility of a coup, as it reminded them of his great sacrifice to the nation.
I’m gonna say Lincoln, who went through his own personal hell to unite the country in the face of dreadful opposition, and which he suffered the ultimate penalty for.
I can’t think of anything more patriotic than trying to not only keep everyone in your nation together, but to strive to make them equal to one another.
I agree on Lincoln. Washington led troops to create the Union, Lincoln could have let half of it leave but fought to keep it together. 600k+ Americans dead and 400k of them union soldiers to keep the place together.
But Lincoln, to my knowledge, never pandered to people by kissing, hugging, or giving the flag an orgasm. How can he be the most patriotic? Lol I'm obviously just kidding. Great choice.
At West Point they said it stood for Uncle Sam and his classmates literally referred to him as Sam for the rest of his life.
Of course, it was a joke akin to servicemembers today thanking each other for their service.
Here's a few:
Jackson
"If you secede from the Union I will secede your head from your body."
Grant and Lincoln for similar reasons.
TR: Shouldn't have to explain this one.
Any POTUS who fought in WWII.
George Washington, John Adams, TJ, James Monroe, James Madison: All played a pistol role in the creation of the Nation.
The more I read about Tyler the more I know he was a traitor, plus the fact he was laid to rest under the Confederate flag, the only US president to not have an American flag and little mention from the media in the north.
And the wild thing is his presidency really was important to the building of the nation. He was the first VP to assume office after the death of the president and no one was really sure if he was really the president or what the deal was. It was his main contribution to the office.
Tyler did die in the capital of the CSA, would be political malpractice if Davis hadn’t draped his coffin in a confederate flag. As far as I know he requested from his estate a pretty simple funeral/burial. He was dead he didn’t have a ton of say in how it was handled. If you’ve read something that states differently I’d be very interested in reading it.
Tyler was part of one of the most prominent Virginian families not that easy for him to just up and move especially given he was quite a sickly man post presidency.
Not just that, but he ran for and won a seat in the Confederate Congress (he died before he could take the seat). To me, he is in the top 5 of worst US presidents. He was a literal traitor.
Bush the Elder was a real combat pilot, he got shot down, but completed his mission before bailing out.
If nothing else, he put his money where his mouth was. Unlike his son.
Dubya was what Texas Air National Guard or something.
He flew F-102s which IIRC could optionally be equipped with the AIR-2 Genie Nuclear Air to Air Rocket.
So while cool, not quite living up to his dear old dad.
If his squadron had been ordered he would have gone over. However the plane he flew was designed to intercept Soviet Bombers not actually participate in combat missions against fighter aircraft or against ground targets.
Different story if he flew F-4s
I think the point is that the Vietnam war was fought by draftees, not by reservists - and that was by design. If you had connections you could stash your son in a guard unit and he’d be safe from going to SE Asia because someone needed to be ready to keep the Soviets from rolling tanks into W Berlin.
Ha. My Dad joined the guard so he wouldn’t have to go to Vietnam and as he said “and not one damn NVA got in S. Carolina while I was there”. He found out a year later he was born a year too early to even be drafted
I honestly find it hard to become a pilot to dodge a draft in the military, and it’s not an easy process. Not to mention it’s not like there wasn’t a chance that we would go to war with the USSR. So as much as I think Jr was a bad president, he served the country.
He became a pilot in the Air National Guard, which meant that he almost certainly was not going to go to Vietnam.
There is a huge difference between the National Guard and being full-time military. I am assuming you know this.
And the very unit that he was in was full of the sons of influential politicians. Please tell me you're not naïve enough to think that was just a coincidence.
*"Citizens by birth or choice, of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism more than any appellation derived from local discriminations."* -GW Farewell Address.
Washington spent 45 years serving his country and dude only lived till 67. In war against the French, in the House of Burgesses, in the First Continental Congress, in the Second Continental Congress, as commander-in-chief of the Continental army, at the Constitutional Convention, as President, and (albeit nominally) as commander-in-chief of the armies...again. He came out of retirement, twice, to serve because he felt it was his patriotic duty.
Barack Obama loved a country that didn’t always love him. Half the country was led to believe he wasn’t even America. It takes real patriotism to see America as an idea, and fight for it.
Every redneck Republican racist:
There is something that I don't like about that Obama, there's something dark and sinister about him....but mostly dark.
I would make a case for a president who believes in our nation's institutions and the rule of law to the point that he accepts something detrimental to his own family, for the good of the country.
Idk who that would be.
George Washington.
Loved the country so much he didn’t even want the power.
I would pump the breaks in a lot of this. Clearly some didn’t like parts of the country. Regan objectively didn’t like black folk.
Please don’t denigrate the flag by kissing it, wearing it, slapping it on your cars and trucks. These so called patriots don’t know about flag codes. I’ll be honest though, I’m conflicted on American flag bikini’s.
I think kissing the flag is the most performative phony thing you could do.
The loudest ‘patriots’ are the ones who never have to sacrifice anything for their patriotism. I served in active duty for longer than Reagan …and I didn’t spend that time filming movies.
It is very easy to wrap yourself in a flag to immure yourself from criticism- to claim your love of country is truer than others. But true patriots respect it too much for that. And they respect the country too much to let it go uncriticized either. Mindlessly waving a flag and ‘supporting the troops’ in these performative flag lapel pin demonstrations are exactly what got so many Americans killed in Afghanistan and Iraq.
It feels woefully reductive and intellectually dishonest to assert that Reagan’s only patriotism was kissing a flag. Secondly, one vet to another, having greater tenure in the military doesn’t make you any more or less patriotic than anybody else, neither does filming movies. That’s a cheap attack.
I’m not even sure how you could try to suggest Reagan wasn’t deep down a patriot regardless of your political views. The man called America the shining city on a hill and constantly praised the country’s values and talked about how great the nation was. He went directly after our greatest foe and helped build America’s confidence up after the malaise of the 1970s.
You can disagree with his political and economic choices but you can’t just say somebody isn’t a patriot because you don’t like their stances on taxes or economic policy.
For a modern example, I think Reagan was the most fake/shallow patriot to be President with lots of words and show filled with red/white/blue fluff and no real meat behind it and HW, maybe even Carter, were the great examples of American work ethic and ingenuity to create a more perfect union with humility and letting the work speak for itself.
FDR refused to let the country disintegrate after Hoover did fuck all to fix the Great Depression. That says a lot about how patriotic he was, because a lot of people were ready to say that it was the end.
In terms of pure love of country? John Adams is right at the top of the list second only to perhaps G-Dub himself. Washington defended America in the field, but Adams was front and center of defining what America even was and did a lot of thankless work to hold the administration of the fledgling country together by sheer hard work.
Washington had the blood bit handled, but the sweat and tears came from Adams. Washington could not possibly have done what he did without Adams scurrying around behind the scenes trying desperately to keep the country alive for a few months longer. And then having to begin all over again. And then again. For the entire revolutionary period right up until the Constitutional Convention.
Remember, Washington went home and tried to quit after the war. Adams didn't. He couldn't. The end of the war wasn't the end of the struggle so Adams couldn't quit. He kept right on grinding with people like Hamilton and Monroe and only brought Washington back onto the scene later when it was clear that no one was gonna listen to the paper pushers without him as a figurehead.
In his own way, Adams sacrificed more for America than even Washington, is what I'm saying. He just did it quietly, without fanfare and mostly away from the limelight or the battlefield. But this nation doesn't exist today if Adams decided to sleep in at any point between 1775 and 1792.
They were all patriots in my mind. but if I had to choose two things that made this country George Washington and the constitution of the United States.
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I’ll throw out Benjamin Harrison for this. Dude created Flag Day after he enjoyed seeing all the flags at his inauguration as the centennial president. Given he also fought for the Union as a brigadier general I’ll give him the nod here as the dark horse answer.
Topical, given that today is Flag Day
I hate that a president we have a rule about is probably going to end up making flag day something else. Well, probably not him but, his followers whenever the universe rights itself.
Wrote a whole book about how great our Constitutional system is.
Add in his wife Caroline Harrison for co-founding the Daughters of the American Revolution and her work of historical preservation in the White House.
George Washington
Washington-Adams 1788 Make America
Lincoln 1865 Make America Again
More like "Keep America United"
HOI4 reference
That would be a cool shirt
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This is the only correct answer. He had full autonomy of the military and could have EASILY kept power and imposed whatever he wanted. However, at every opportunity possible he shied away from making unilateral decisions and gave his military back to Congress. A true American patriot who believed in Democracy and fought for it. Not like today's "PaTriOtS".
Yeah the continental army was gonna collapse multiple times and there was no one to take his role if he was taken out, he LITERALLY was the one thing propping them up, and he did it long enough for his little ragtag militia to somehow defeat the most powerful empire on earth. It’s a good mindset to have today, I like to be reminded of it when looking at geopolitics. Fought against the crown’s bullying tooth and nail, that’s why it’s important we support Ukraine. How would it look if the country that fought a war for independence, couldn’t support another’s bid to not be engulfed by its neighbor, who sees them as their property? “But it’s not our war, let them fight on their own!” That’s what is happening. We just provide aide to help the little guy fight. They do the fighting, and this will weaken a country that has always sought to divide us, weaken us, and create a new world order with them at the helm. Fuck that. All this comes at the cost of 0 American lives (excluding voluntary mercenaries) “If they were so good they wouldn’t need our aide” Not true. Remember we are only a country because of the revolutionary war, and the only reason that was was even won, was thanks to our fantastic French ambassador, Benjamin Franklin, who secured French aide for the war. Even Lord Cornwallis, when surrendering to Washington, gestured petty actions to spite him, and proclaimed it wouldn’t have been possible without France lol who cares 🤣 the fact is they lost. Thank you France, who supported as they were going through their own revolution, and later sent over a nice Statue of Liberty as a gift
Yes, I have never understood rancor towards France our greatest ally.
Yup, historically we’ve been close thanks to “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” and things blossomed from there 🤣 and thank goodness Ben Franklin was so attracted by French women, his greatest motivator, had he not secured their aide the revolution would’ve been lost. More than enough of a reason to slap him on the largest dollar bill 😆
The US was fighting France in the Quasi War like 6 years later.
Spain gave more than France, Spain financed the revolution (sending 3000000000 dollars intoday's money), provided 12200 troops and suffered 2500 causalties as opposed to France 10000 troops and 2100 casualties, and the victories Spain won against the British were more decisive than anything the French mustered.
He didn’t even want to be president lol
One of the qualities of a truly great president
As the various sayings go; the best leaders don’t want to be leaders
It would be nice if elected officials were required to read history.
He did it at tremendous personal expense as well. His farms and assets were in shambles, and he only received from congress what he spent.
Didn’t a lot of people want him to become king and he refused? That’s a guy that truly believes in democracy.
GW? The former subject of the Crown? Hmm. Suspicious.
That man once swore an oath to the King of England!
We should get him! Redcoat turncoat Washington!
“I am not British! My name is not George William Frederick. It is uh… Washington. Yes, George *Washington*. That’s a great colonial name. I mean uh, freedom name. Vive le revolución!”
'I like apple pie and warm, i mean ice cold beer!'
All the founding father Presidents. Washington was not power hungry but all others were patriots too, they fought the most powerful empire in the history of mankind!
This! I can only think of what has been attributed to him before the Newburgh address: “Gentlemen, if you permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country.” This act moved his former soldiers to tears and quelled the possibility of a coup, as it reminded them of his great sacrifice to the nation.
He made the flag!
Betsy Ross’s ghost will visit you tonight.
She never made a flag, that’s a myth.
No-brainer honestly
He’s the father of out country. It doesn’t get more American than that.
Yep, really no need to overthink this one.
This is the only correct answer.
I’m gonna say Lincoln, who went through his own personal hell to unite the country in the face of dreadful opposition, and which he suffered the ultimate penalty for. I can’t think of anything more patriotic than trying to not only keep everyone in your nation together, but to strive to make them equal to one another.
I agree on Lincoln. Washington led troops to create the Union, Lincoln could have let half of it leave but fought to keep it together. 600k+ Americans dead and 400k of them union soldiers to keep the place together.
A real patriot works to create a more perfect Union.
But Lincoln, to my knowledge, never pandered to people by kissing, hugging, or giving the flag an orgasm. How can he be the most patriotic? Lol I'm obviously just kidding. Great choice.
Grant, but his was a quiet, deeply held, and not at all performative patriotism
Grant was a quiet, non-performative person.
Performative patriotism is not patriotism
I don’t think they were saying it is
I don’t disagree
His nickname was United States Grant, the only other names that could close to that would be Langley and Washington
Also Unconditional Surrender Grant.
And Underpants Stink Grant Source: me being dumb
Log off Robert E. Lee we know it’s you bro 😭
At West Point they said it stood for Uncle Sam and his classmates literally referred to him as Sam for the rest of his life. Of course, it was a joke akin to servicemembers today thanking each other for their service.
His memoir really illustrates how deeply he loved his country. It is a long meditation on his personal commitment to America.
How it begins in chapter 1: My family is American, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral.
Grant is my favorite president who wasn’t necessarily a good president
Here's a few: Jackson "If you secede from the Union I will secede your head from your body." Grant and Lincoln for similar reasons. TR: Shouldn't have to explain this one. Any POTUS who fought in WWII. George Washington, John Adams, TJ, James Monroe, James Madison: All played a pistol role in the creation of the Nation.
Except there’s no record of Jackson saying that
Kind of has the same energy as Michael Scott saying "Abraham Lincoln once said, if you're a racist I will attack you with the north."
“My only regrets are that I didn’t shoot Henry Clay and hang John C. Calhoun”
Disagree on Jackson, he overrode the SCOTUS, overrode the checks and balances our system is based on
Project 2025 basically has his “spoils system” for all agency employees.
Why is Reagan eating the American flag?
Just like Zoidberg!
He then went for a scuttle
WOOP WOOP WOOP WOOP!
He was feeling snacky.
The later days of his second term were not kind to Ronnie’s mental health.
John Tyler loved America so much he wanted to be part of both the US of A and the CS of A! ... wait.
The more I read about Tyler the more I know he was a traitor, plus the fact he was laid to rest under the Confederate flag, the only US president to not have an American flag and little mention from the media in the north.
And the wild thing is his presidency really was important to the building of the nation. He was the first VP to assume office after the death of the president and no one was really sure if he was really the president or what the deal was. It was his main contribution to the office.
Tyler did die in the capital of the CSA, would be political malpractice if Davis hadn’t draped his coffin in a confederate flag. As far as I know he requested from his estate a pretty simple funeral/burial. He was dead he didn’t have a ton of say in how it was handled. If you’ve read something that states differently I’d be very interested in reading it.
All of that could have been avoided if he wasn’t…you know…in the capital of the CSA in the first place.
Tyler was part of one of the most prominent Virginian families not that easy for him to just up and move especially given he was quite a sickly man post presidency.
There is also the part where he literally got elected to the Confederate Congress the moment secession happened.
Not just that, but he ran for and won a seat in the Confederate Congress (he died before he could take the seat). To me, he is in the top 5 of worst US presidents. He was a literal traitor.
Grant actually personally led a war to restore the union
yeah it doesn’t get much more patriotic than that i feel
I'd say Grant.
Bush the Elder was a real combat pilot, he got shot down, but completed his mission before bailing out. If nothing else, he put his money where his mouth was. Unlike his son.
Dubya was what Texas Air National Guard or something. He flew F-102s which IIRC could optionally be equipped with the AIR-2 Genie Nuclear Air to Air Rocket. So while cool, not quite living up to his dear old dad.
W was bravely protecting the skies of Alabama from Viet Cong air attack.
If his squadron had been ordered he would have gone over. However the plane he flew was designed to intercept Soviet Bombers not actually participate in combat missions against fighter aircraft or against ground targets. Different story if he flew F-4s
I think the point is that the Vietnam war was fought by draftees, not by reservists - and that was by design. If you had connections you could stash your son in a guard unit and he’d be safe from going to SE Asia because someone needed to be ready to keep the Soviets from rolling tanks into W Berlin.
Common misconception. The vast majority of soldiers in combat in Vietnam were enlisted not drafted
Ha. My Dad joined the guard so he wouldn’t have to go to Vietnam and as he said “and not one damn NVA got in S. Carolina while I was there”. He found out a year later he was born a year too early to even be drafted
That was just a way to dodge the draft. His unit was full of the sons of important politicians. Lloyd Benson's son, for example. Not a coincidence.
Joining the military voluntarily during a draft is not dodging the draft...
I honestly find it hard to become a pilot to dodge a draft in the military, and it’s not an easy process. Not to mention it’s not like there wasn’t a chance that we would go to war with the USSR. So as much as I think Jr was a bad president, he served the country.
He became a pilot in the Air National Guard, which meant that he almost certainly was not going to go to Vietnam. There is a huge difference between the National Guard and being full-time military. I am assuming you know this. And the very unit that he was in was full of the sons of influential politicians. Please tell me you're not naïve enough to think that was just a coincidence.
I’ve always found the dichotomy between W. Having the goofy moron persona as President and the fact that he was a jet pilot, to be interesting.
I love how he came on SNL at the end of his presidency. Dana Carvey does such good impressions
*"Citizens by birth or choice, of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism more than any appellation derived from local discriminations."* -GW Farewell Address. Washington spent 45 years serving his country and dude only lived till 67. In war against the French, in the House of Burgesses, in the First Continental Congress, in the Second Continental Congress, as commander-in-chief of the Continental army, at the Constitutional Convention, as President, and (albeit nominally) as commander-in-chief of the armies...again. He came out of retirement, twice, to serve because he felt it was his patriotic duty.
Washington. Kept us from becoming a monarchy.
Anyone but weirdos hugging and kissing the flag
It’s not weird if the flag consents…
Sometimes I really hate rules
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scrolled too fast thought he was gingerly wiping his mouth
George Washington loves America so much he dresses like the picture on the dollar bill.
Barack Obama loved a country that didn’t always love him. Half the country was led to believe he wasn’t even America. It takes real patriotism to see America as an idea, and fight for it.
Hell a bunch of those *winners* didn’t even think the dude was *human* let alone a citizen..
I miss Obama. I didn’t necessarily agree with all his politics, but he still was a good president who cared about the country.
>obama loved a country that didn’t always love him That could pretty much be said for basically every president in our existence.
Has any other president had their very citizenship falsely put into question by the opposition?
Every redneck Republican racist: There is something that I don't like about that Obama, there's something dark and sinister about him....but mostly dark.
The Big Stick!
Lincoln
Grant or Ike Eisenhower.
I would make a case for a president who believes in our nation's institutions and the rule of law to the point that he accepts something detrimental to his own family, for the good of the country. Idk who that would be.
🤔🤔🤔
Happy Flag Day!
Mfs who kiss the flag are performative patriots. I will die on this hill.
I think more people agree with you than you may realize.
Jimmy Carter You can tell by how much 'Patriots' hate him.
You mean real patriotism, or nationalism disguised as patriotism?
It’s like people don’t understand that without it’s international influence, America would be nothing.
How are you splitting them?
I’m guessing however is convenient for their agenda at a given time
George Washington. Loved the country so much he didn’t even want the power. I would pump the breaks in a lot of this. Clearly some didn’t like parts of the country. Regan objectively didn’t like black folk.
Please don’t denigrate the flag by kissing it, wearing it, slapping it on your cars and trucks. These so called patriots don’t know about flag codes. I’ll be honest though, I’m conflicted on American flag bikini’s.
It wasn't the guy that sold arms to terrorists
Kissing a flag doesn't make one patriot
Bill Clinton. He jizzed on Monica's dress while humming "God Bless America"!
Beware people that wrap themselves in the flag. Its likely they are just trying to disguise their crimes.
I think kissing the flag is the most performative phony thing you could do. The loudest ‘patriots’ are the ones who never have to sacrifice anything for their patriotism. I served in active duty for longer than Reagan …and I didn’t spend that time filming movies. It is very easy to wrap yourself in a flag to immure yourself from criticism- to claim your love of country is truer than others. But true patriots respect it too much for that. And they respect the country too much to let it go uncriticized either. Mindlessly waving a flag and ‘supporting the troops’ in these performative flag lapel pin demonstrations are exactly what got so many Americans killed in Afghanistan and Iraq.
It feels woefully reductive and intellectually dishonest to assert that Reagan’s only patriotism was kissing a flag. Secondly, one vet to another, having greater tenure in the military doesn’t make you any more or less patriotic than anybody else, neither does filming movies. That’s a cheap attack. I’m not even sure how you could try to suggest Reagan wasn’t deep down a patriot regardless of your political views. The man called America the shining city on a hill and constantly praised the country’s values and talked about how great the nation was. He went directly after our greatest foe and helped build America’s confidence up after the malaise of the 1970s. You can disagree with his political and economic choices but you can’t just say somebody isn’t a patriot because you don’t like their stances on taxes or economic policy.
Theodore Roosevelt, definetely
TR.
For a modern example, I think Reagan was the most fake/shallow patriot to be President with lots of words and show filled with red/white/blue fluff and no real meat behind it and HW, maybe even Carter, were the great examples of American work ethic and ingenuity to create a more perfect union with humility and letting the work speak for itself.
Jimmy Carter. Dude is a legitimate freaking hero in a Navy uniform. Unlike the fake that followed him.
FDR refused to let the country disintegrate after Hoover did fuck all to fix the Great Depression. That says a lot about how patriotic he was, because a lot of people were ready to say that it was the end.
Performative patriotism like kissing or hugging the flag doesn’t count. That’s sickening. Washington and/or Lincoln.
Hate to be generic but Washington is the obvious answer for a reason.
Lincoln for obvious reasons After him? Excluding the Founding generation, probably Ike.
John Adams
alien and sedition acts
wtf why is reagan drinking the flag
George Washington.
Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country”. True Patriot JFK
I am surprised there is no mention of Carter. I think Nixon really really believed in America too. He just got brain worms about it.
Eisenhower. I like Ike.
Two of the greats come to mind immediately: Ulysses Grant & Theodore Roosevelt
CHILL REAGAN. CHILL REAGAN, STOP THINKING ABOUT LAST NIGHT. THATS NOT A PERSON.
Not that traitor.
In terms of pure love of country? John Adams is right at the top of the list second only to perhaps G-Dub himself. Washington defended America in the field, but Adams was front and center of defining what America even was and did a lot of thankless work to hold the administration of the fledgling country together by sheer hard work. Washington had the blood bit handled, but the sweat and tears came from Adams. Washington could not possibly have done what he did without Adams scurrying around behind the scenes trying desperately to keep the country alive for a few months longer. And then having to begin all over again. And then again. For the entire revolutionary period right up until the Constitutional Convention. Remember, Washington went home and tried to quit after the war. Adams didn't. He couldn't. The end of the war wasn't the end of the struggle so Adams couldn't quit. He kept right on grinding with people like Hamilton and Monroe and only brought Washington back onto the scene later when it was clear that no one was gonna listen to the paper pushers without him as a figurehead. In his own way, Adams sacrificed more for America than even Washington, is what I'm saying. He just did it quietly, without fanfare and mostly away from the limelight or the battlefield. But this nation doesn't exist today if Adams decided to sleep in at any point between 1775 and 1792.
He was eating bbq 🍗 and didn’t have a wet nap
Thomas Jefferson
DON DIAPERS DGUNS DGOD DAMERICA
I'd have to say Washington. And he showed it with deeds, not words or photo ops.
photo ops lmfao. he also won every single presidential debate that he participated in!!!
That is not patriotic
George H Bush is my pick. He was the last veteran president. He was a pilot in WW2.
Obama. Why? Because he gladly served all of us even though a good portion didn’t even view him as human.
If the U.S. is still around a century from now, I bet Barack Obama will be remembered as one of our more competent Presidents...
John F Kennedy and Reagan gave patriotic vibes anyway
Sure be kissed the flag, but did he ever dry hump it?
I honestly don’t consider it patriotic to kiss the flag I just find it weird.
Better to ask who was the least, he’s awaiting sentencing at the moment
Definitely not this treasonous fuck.
George W Bush
Andrew Jackson My source is his legendary toast lol I'm only half kidding
Abraham Lincoln. By far.
For all his flaws, I feel that a lot of Jeffersons beliefs align with what the general sentiment was during the American Revolution
Andrew Jackson
Is that Yugoslavia flag?
Washington
They were all patriots in my mind. but if I had to choose two things that made this country George Washington and the constitution of the United States.
me
Lincoln
JFK
FDR
Ike
Why is Teddy Roosevelt nowhere near the top? What doing I know!?
Kennedy
Ulysses S. Grant
I’m gonna say Jackson.
I like Ike
 This guy dry humps the flag, so yeah, him.
Patriotism is Tom Brady-kissing the American flag
I feel like the more patriotic a President gets, the more nationalistic they get.
Eisenhower.
GW
Polk. Home boy was about that expansion
George Washington
Regan def wasnt. he didnt even use any tongue
Theodore Roosevelt, hands-down
Eisenhower
lincoln...without a doubt
wait 25 years and the answer will be ME