“Patriot or Assault?” - Man Doesn't Stand for Anthem, Gets INSTANT Reality Check

**Patrick Bet-David** (0:00)
So, there's a video that went viral on X about a man that smacked a guy in the head for, what do you call it, for...

**SPEAKER_2** (0:10)
Not standing for the National Anthem.

**Patrick Bet-David** (0:11)
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**SPEAKER_2** (0:38)
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The quality of it.

**Patrick Bet-David** (0:53)
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This is all I wear, my God. If you believe the future looks bright and you're staying optimistic, you want to be in business meetings, put your feet over your knee for people to say, wow, what's the future looks bright? Go to vtmerch.com, place your order, depending on your sizes. Whatever you do, get the sizes because they sell out very, very quickly. Okay, let's get right into this clip. So do you agree with this behavior? Yes? No. Here's a man at a Chicago Cubs game. You can pause it when we go to Chicago Cubs game. He is watching the National Anthem being played, and a man in front of him is not standing up. So guess what he does to him? Go ahead and watch the reaction of the other two fellows to the right of the guy that got smacked upside his head. Go ahead.
Go back again to see the smack, zero, but then how hard it was.

**Tom** (2:55)
At the end there, he goes, thank you so much for standing.

**Adam** (3:03)
Oh, he hits him.

**Patrick Bet-David** (3:06)
Okay, can you pause it? Okay, so is this a patriot, or is this a, what's the opposite?

**Tom** (3:14)
It's assault in a third degree.

**Patrick Bet-David** (3:16)
Is this a patriot, or is this assault? Run the poll. Run the poll with the audience. And guys, be honest. Be honest when you see this, because part of you watches this, you're like, oh my goodness. Like this is maybe, yesterday, I go to the urgent care here because we take one of our kids, you know, I don't know what it was, but we went there, scored away. And the doctor's from New York, and he's telling me all these stories. And the kid, one of my kids, the doctor asked him a question. And this doctor, you can tell he's like a hardcore, you can tell a military person raised him. And my kid says to the doctor, yeah.
And I said, yes.
And the kid says, yes. And the doctor looks at me and says, listen, if it was back in the days, my dad would have smacked me upside the head, it would have been very different. He says, thank you. I said, yeah, I mean, that's old school. Nowadays, we don't smack, maybe we'll sidekick or we'll take away eye bags or something. But Tom, what do you think when you see this? Do you look at the saying this is a patriot or this is an assault, arrest a man?

**Tom** (4:19)
So we live in a world where the United States stands on top of the stack with the best constitution, the best framework. And in that, there's freedom of speech.
But there's also consequences. And this gentleman in the back felt that this gentleman in the front was disrespecting the National Anthem.