If trump really respected the US flag, then he would't have had Kid Rock in the WH. 

http://gossipextra.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/kid_rock.jpg

If trump really respected the valor and sacrifice of those who died to defend our Union, he wouldn't have remained silent during the second white nationalist racist march on Charlottesville, SC.  What greater assault on our union was there than the failed secession / civil war by the South?