President Donald Trump has found a new tool to help make good on his promise to deliver the largest mass deportation in U.S. history: the American flag.
The president signed an executive order Monday mandating the prosecution of individuals accused of burning or otherwise desecrating the American flag, Fox News Digital first reported.
The order appears to double as one that furthers the president’s own interests, such as his brazen mass deportation efforts.
While signing the order in the Oval Office on Monday, Trump claimed—without providing evidence—that “All over the country, their burning flags. All over the world, they burn the American flag.” He added that, “When you burn the American flag, it incites riots. At levels we’ve never seen before. People go crazy.”
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