‘This Is Garbage’: Conservatives Slam Trump Plan to Jail American Flag Burners

Isaac Schorr Aug 25th, 2025, 1:29 pm

(AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Many conservatives were less than impressed with the executive order President Donald Trump signed on Monday, which he claimed would punish those who burn the American flag with one year in prison.

During a ceremony in the Oval Office, Trump remarked that “what the penalty is going to be if you burn a flag, you get one year in jail. No early exits, no nothing.”

“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 language…incite 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 rec

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