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Punked! Donald Trump supporters fooled into waving Trump-branded Russian flags

John Plunkett. Updated February 24th, 2017

Lots of people have been pointing out that the red, white and blue flags being waved by Donald Trump supporters at the conservative CPAC lovefest looked, well, a little familiar.

They were basically Trump-branded Russian flags.

It prompted outrage and disbelief on social media, as you would expect.

Except was it in fact a brilliant stunt by an anti-Trump protestor keen to, ahem, flag up the regime’s close ties with Russia’s president Putin? Could be…

If so, this guy’s some kinda genius.

UPDATE: The two protestors responsible have been named as Jason Charter and Ryan Clayton who handed out around 1,000 Trump emblazoned red, white and blue striped flags.

Charter stood up during Trump’s official remarks to accuse him of being a “fascist” and “Putin’s puppet” and both were ejected from the premises.

Here is Clayton at the conference with a big version of the flag.

“I think there are multiple ways you can resist against Trump, and I think this is one way that’s extremely effective,” Charter told The Atlantic. “It’s fun to have a joke sometimes in a very serious situation.”

As you can imagine, Twitter couldn’t get enough of it.