Im a pro-trump republican against the stars and bars.

At least that's one thing we agree on... and that's a start. The problem with your stance is, Trump himself has defended the use of the Confederate flag and Confederate statues. How do you square that with your support of Trump?

I don't know what Trump thinks on the subject but just because one defends the rights of others to demonstrate how they want doesn't mean they agree with it. I do not support the new book that came out saying the Second Amendment is about anti-blackness. However it is the author's right to publish such lies and if I truly support freedom I can not order such things to be prohibited and banned. That does not mean that I must believe it and accept it as fact, I can call out the lies.
Likewise with the flag, because of freedom of expression, they have a right to wave it peacefully if they wish. But it also means I can think of them as I choose fit. Do I like it, no. Do I agree with it, no. Do I support it, as long as they are peaceful I don't really care. If they want to go into battle with it I might just decide to avenge my ancestor who was killed by cowardly confederate raiders.
In short it falls into the category of I don't agree with what you say or do but I support your right to do so. Obviously there are exceptions, you can not harm others. And some greaseball flying a flag is not harmful. I suppose you can say it might traumatize some people but then some veterans and families of fallen soldiers might feel traumatized when they hear people say allahu-akhbar. Is people to be prohibited from saying that? Where do we draw the line with offensive stuff?

Not that I support the Confederacy in any way (Battle Hymn of the Republic is my ringtone), but that's not a Confederate flag...it's a Dixiecrat flag that has grown popular along with myths such as the Noble South.

Well, I think personally he's against it, but he defends it so that he doesn't make his stars and bars waving supporters angry. As he said in 2015 he would take it down. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87V3jpSPkl4

I don't see how what he says is supposed to be some sort of indication of what he believes.

Agreement on this is a good place to start.

It makes me cringe to see that flag being waved because it was created after the war by Dixiecrats and groups like the KKK.

The REAL battle flag, if you really want to see heritage upheld, had a properly square field. The national flag was the bloodstained banner or the stainless banner (depending on the year).

This rectangular "battle flag" is just sickening.

And yes, they killed Lincoln too...very sad. It paved the way for Andrew Johnson's disastrous Presidency that set race relations in America back by a century.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-confederate/trump-says-confederate-flag-proud-symbol-of-u-s-south-idUSKCN24K0I0