{"id":35710,"date":"2025-08-25T20:53:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T20:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=35710"},"modified":"2025-08-25T20:53:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T20:53:36","slug":"donald-trump-signs-executive-order-to-imprison-those-who-burn-us-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=35710","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump signs executive order to imprison those who burn US flag"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Donald Trump has signed an executive order at the White House today (25 August) making it illegal to burn American flags.<\/p>\n

The 47th US<\/a> President has not been shy in signing orders and bills since coming into office in January this year, starting his second term in office with a tirade of new policies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While he has been spending the bulk of his time trying to broker a peace deal<\/a> between Russia<\/a> and Ukraine, we can’t forget that the 79-year-old has been making a number of changes in his own country.<\/p>\n

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He’s introduced a travel ban<\/a> for some and cracked down heavily on immigration, even making a passing comment at the White House which disgusted viewers<\/a> a couple of months ago.<\/p>\n

Trump<\/a> isn’t slowing down though, announcing his latest move in front of press in the Oval Office.<\/p>\n

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Trump signed the new bill in the Oval Office today (MANDEL NGAN\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

The executive order has told federal prosecutors to pursue criminal charges against individuals who burn American flags during protests.<\/p>\n

It also orders attorney general Pam Bondi in particular, to look back at cases where people have been caught burning flags, and see if they could be charged with other crimes<\/a>, such as disturbing the peace or breaking environmental laws.<\/p>\n

The move comes as Trump tries to get around a Supreme Court decision from 1989, as they ruled 5-4 in Texas v Johnson that destroying the flag is an action which is protected political expression under the first amendment.<\/p>\n

Though it was 36 years ago, the flag-burning laws in 48 of 50 states were discarded and signalled that people could do so as a way to freely express their political views. But this is no longer the case.<\/p>\n

Speaking while signing the order, Trump said: \u201cAll over the country they\u2019re burning flags,<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of over the world they burn the American flag, and as you know, through a very sad court, I guess it was a 5-4 decision, they called it freedom of speech.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Trump has gone against the Supreme Court’s ruling from 36 years ago (Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

He simply said if ‘you burn a flag, you get one year in jail’ while speaking in the Oval Office, though the order doesn’t reveal details about a jail sentence.<\/p>\n

If we rewind back to 2016, it’s clear that Trump has long campaigned for the criminalisation of the act, writing on social media at the time: \u201cNobody should be allowed to burn the American flag \u2013 if they do, there must be consequences \u2013 perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail!\u201d<\/p>\n

A YouGov survey from 2023 found that over half of Americans (59%) found flag burning in protests to be unacceptable.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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