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Watch Trump Forget the Words to the National Anthem and Forget to Put His Hand over His Heart

On Monday morning, Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump appeared on the balcony overlooking the South Lawn of the White House to kick off the annual Easter Egg Roll.

Things were relatively normal until Marine Gunnery Sergeant Sara Sheffield came out to sing the anthem. (And she was AMAZING!)

Trump appeared to once again forget to put his hand over his heart during the national anthem, and again appeared to know only sporadic sections of the lyrics, during the singing of the Star Spangled Banner.

Less than a second into the song, Melania placed her hand over her heart, but five seconds in, Trump still had not done the same.

SO PATRIOTIC!

Trump then proceeded to mouth the words to some parts of the song, periodically stopping for reasons known only to the universe. He especially seemed to have trouble with the line, “Through the perilous fight…”

This isn’t the first time Trump flubbed our nation’s anthem.

At the January, 2018 college football championship game between Alabama and Georgia, Trump went viral by skipping parts of the anthem, after going to war with NFL players over the song.

And at the 2017 Easter Egg Roll, before Melania had officially even moved into the White House, Trump made headlines when he failed to cover his heart during the anthem, again doing so following a less-subtle nudge from Melania.

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