Trump Dragged After Bragging That He's 'Very Good At Flagpoles' In Bizarre Video

President Donald Trump was widely mocked after randomly boasting that he's "very good at flagpoles" while discussing his various White House construction projects with members of the press.

Trump, per CNN's Kasie Hunt, "spent 32 minutes… explaining in painstaking detail the changes that he’s bringing to the People’s House.” And at one point, he bragged about the “two beautiful flag poles on both sides of the White House.”

He said:

“As you remember, I donated the flagpoles. One on each side, ’cause the White House really didn’t have an appropriate American flag. It had a small one on top. We left that.”

“This is a great pole. This is a top-of-the-line — it’s tapered. This isn’t a straight up-and-down job, which looks terrible, frankly. It’s a tapered pole, great — I’m very good at flagpoles!”

You can hear what Trump said in the video below.

Trump's meandering remark caught the attention of former Illinois Republican Representative Adam Kinzinger, who said the moment raises further questions about Trump's cognitive fitness for office.

Speaking to CNN anchor Erin Burnett, Kinzinger said, in part:

“I don't mean to laugh because he is literally the president of the United States and makes key decisions for my four-year-old son's life in the future, our life and everything else. But honestly — and I'm not saying this as a gratuitous hit. I just mean it."

"Like, if you were sitting down with your uncle or your grandfather or your parents and they were talking like that, you'd start to ask some follow up questions to make sure they were okay."

“I mean, it's just we're in this weird time where we've become — we've grown numb to this kind of stuff. The obsession with the tapered flagpole, the, you know, where you land your helicopter, is plush. We've become so numb that we're not thinking about it."

"But if you just, if you would transport each of us from 2018 to this moment and play those soundbites, we would think we were in bizarro world or Earth 2, or something, that's not real.”

You can hear what he said in the video below.

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The mockery was swift.

Of course, Trump also took the opportunity to defend his White House ballroom project, a project now at the center of a legal battle before the Supreme Court.

The administration filed an emergency petition with the court last week after a 2-1 ruling by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals found that construction could not proceed without congressional approval.

The administration has argued that Trump has the authority to build the ballroom and that stopping work on the ballroom would create a national security risk. Without intervention from the Supreme Court, construction is scheduled to halt today, August 21.

Trump told reporters that he “can’t imagine” the Supreme Court ruling against him. He also dismissed the underlying lawsuit, suggesting it was brought by someone who simply “didn’t like the view.”