People, including Gardner and Trump, can focus on more than one thing at a time.
We can discuss health care reform AND North Korea AND Iran.
But it would be nice if certain Republicans and conservatives recognized freedom of dissent and if President Trump didn't give marching orders to the NFL to fire players Trump disagrees with.
The National Anthem and the flag are about the VALUES this country stands for, and one of the chief ones is freedom of dissent.
And you seem to have no problem with people who relentlessly want to annihilate North Korea.