Is It Okay For Dogs To Sit On An American Flag?

Kaley Cuoco shared a photo to Instagram on July 4 featuring her dogs sitting on an American flag. Adorable or a complete outrage?!

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00:00 Kayleigh, you can't blame this one on the dog. Kayleigh Cuoco is driving people

00:05 Cuoco. Like cuckoo. Let's do this whole one in cold open. Just keep going. Actress Kayleigh Cuoco shared this on

00:13 Instagram on the 4th of July. "Thank you, the pet handler, for taking care of the

00:17 squad while I'm out of town. 4th of July pups." But that American flag, a symbol of

00:22 all that is perfect in the world, is being desecrated by dog butts. People got

00:26 very angry. Greg Popovich said, "That's not a towel. I believe in the right to

00:32 burn the flag in protest as long as it is in context, but that's why so many

00:36 gave their lives for freedom. But this is not that. This is simply disrespectful.

00:41 That's a flag, a symbol of what people have sacrificed." So he's fine with

00:45 burning it? Cuoco has since removed the image and posted an apology to Instagram

00:50 that reads, "Yesterday I made a mistake by posting the picture that was taken of my

00:54 sweet dogs posing on an American flag. I sincerely apologize to anyone that was

00:59 offended by my previous post. This in no way reflects my feelings toward what the

01:03 American flag represents." One of the funniest parts of this controversy is

01:07 that Clickhole on the 4th of July posted this video making fun of the exact same

01:11 thing.

01:19 It's called, "This video of bunnies hopping around on the American flag is

01:23 meant to be cute, not disrespectful." Hungry for some actual flag desecration?

01:27 This happened this weekend too. 22-year-old Brighton Mellet was arrested

01:31 in Illinois for posting this photo to Facebook with the hashtag, "You better

01:35 burn that flag." On Facebook he wrote, "In this moment, being proud of my country is

01:39 to ignore the atrocities committed against people of color, people living in

01:43 poverty, people who identify as women, and against my own queer community on a

01:48 daily basis." He was arrested under an old Illinois flag law, but that doesn't

01:52 matter since the Supreme Court ruled in 1989 that flag burning is a legal free

01:57 speech expression covered under the First Amendment.

01:59 Meghan Tonjes said, "Bless! People want to be mad about dogs sitting on a flag, but

02:03 they will put on a flag bikini for the 'gram." OhMaphoo said, "The First

02:07 Amendment does cover flag burning. It just doesn't protect the burner from

02:11 getting punched in the throat though." For more trends like this, go to

02:14 whatstrending.com.