Imagine if Obama had done this

“Some” would have seen it as a Secret Terrorist Gesture, while more sober-minded chin-scratchers would have taken it as evidence that Obama is too much of a foreigner to understand our customs and traditions.

Of course on the left this is seen as yet further confirmation that the Leader of the Free World is, as Jeeves said of his equally clueless employer, “mentally negligible,” but on the right that same judgment is generally understood to be a kind of compliment.

(Edited to reflect sensitivity to the plight of the mentally disabled who don’t have access to nuclear weapons.)