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Critics of President Trump's patriotic boosterism have seized upon a viral video of him sporadically singing along with The Star-Spangled Banner at a January 2018 football game as evidence that he either forgot or doesn't know the words to the national anthem. Trump, who in the past has condemned National Football League players for disrespecting the anthem by taking a knee in protest during pre-game renditions of the song, appeared to struggle with the lyrics before standing silently at attention through most of the rest of the song: The irony was not lost on TV comedians and talk show hosts, who mocked Trump's performance without mercy: Among those who saw no irony at all in Trump's apparent fumbling of the anthem was his son, Donald Trump, Jr., who tweeted: And, of course, there were those who leaped to Trump's defense, citing the echo-prone acoustics of large arenas as the likely reason for his erratic crooning and asserting (albeit without evidence) that it's asinine to suppose that the president doesn't know the lyrics to The Star-Spangled Banner: Videos of Trump on other occasions when the anthem was played or sung are mostly inconclusive, showing him sometimes singing along with some of the words, other times not singing at all, and in one instance having to be nudged by First Lady Melania Trump to place his hand over his heart:
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