WASHINGTON — One of the capital’s newest curiosities is an American flag bearing 51 stars rather than the regulation 50.
The unusual take on the Stars and Stripes went up across Lafayette Park from the White House last week, and features a green star just below its white fellows.
District of Columbia officials have been agitating for statehood for decades — but Ryan Lambert, the man behind the standard, told The Post he has a very different idea.
“Greenland makes a lot of sense for America, from a strategic perspective,” said Lambert, who placed the flag on the National Grange building on H Street Northwest after hanging a “Welcome back, Mr. President!” banner to mark Trump’s return to office this past January.
“I wanna help America, and part of helping America is by getting other Americans to understand and amplify the president’s message.”
Trump, 78, has repeatedly said he wants to acquire Greenland, which has a population of just over 56,000, from Denmark in order to bring the Arctic island’s strategic resources under US influence.
The president has also teased desires to annex Canada and the Panama Canal Zone, but Lambert says he is less enthused by those prospects.
“As Americans, we build the canals, we’ve already done our part for Panama,” he explained. “Canada is a great country for some really nice, sweet people, but I’m not sure we really need a bunch of more socialists added to the American populace.
“Once they learn about capitalism, once they learn free markets, once they they learn about, kind of the American way of doing things and they wanna start being a little bit more American, they’d be ready to maybe be a 51st state. But I think Greenland right now, there’s a lot of natural beauty. There’s a lot of resources.“
Lambert decided to add a green star to a white stripe on the US flag rather than put an extra white star on the blue field to try to make the message more obvious.
“It makes it visible, right? I mean, whenever the people who are really the quality folks who do flag design, they’re going to arrange things in the way they’re gonna arrange things. But part of what we’re doing right now is building awareness and building support for the president by making this star green,” he said.
Lambert claimed most people he’s seen walking past the building have indicated support and excitement when they see the flag — but acknowledged “there’s always haters.”
“There’s always people who want to say no,” he said. “People are afraid of change, but if we didn’t have Alaska right now, we’d be less of a country. If we didn’t have Hawaii right now, we’d be less of a country.”
The White House didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.
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