I am trying to make a project with the American flag waving as it's being lowered. I can't animate that well, so does anyone have any tips?

Perhaps make each point on the flag oscillate up and down like a wave. I have minimal experience in animation, so I'm not certain this will work

I'll try it out. Also, nice meme.

you could make the flag into very thick strips, thicker than they need to be and they all move left and right and maybe up and down like in a wave, you could also use a variable with the X position (keeping track of the original X position) to change the brightness of the actual strips if you know what I mean. If you need I can elaborate further.