"You get one year in jail, if you burn a flag, you get and what it does is incite to riot I hope they use that languageincite to riot and you burn a flag, you get one year in jail, you don't get ten years. You don't get one month. You get one year in jail. And it goes on your record."
"Notwithstanding the Supreme Court's rulings on First Amendment protections, the Court has never held that American Flag desecration conducted in a manner that is likely to incite imminent lawless action or that is an action amounting to fighting words' is constitutionally protected. Online, many on the Right were quick to break with Trump on this particular issue, although some did defend the action."
The executive order asserts a one-year jail penalty for anyone who burns the American flag and frames such acts as likely to incite riots or constitute fighting words. The order challenges prior Supreme Court rulings by claiming the Court never held flag desecration conducted to incite imminent lawless action or as fighting words is constitutionally protected. The announcement prompted swift conservative reaction online, with many criticizing or mocking the policy and some saying it could provoke more flag burnings. Burning the American flag remains a legal, First Amendment–protected form of protest.
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