President Donald Trump signed an executive order aiming to crack down on flag burning on Monday.

“If you burn a flag, you get one year in jail,” Trump told reporters at a signing ceremony in the Oval Office, though the order itself does not include any details on sentencing. “You will see flag burning stop immediately.”

The order tasks law enforcement with seeking a workaround of constitutional protections, giving authorities the green light to arrest flag-burners if they believe the protest is carried out in conjunction with other illegal activities. It argues that there is no precedent for flag-burning “conducted in a manner that is likely to incite imminent lawless action,” and that “fighting words” aren’t “constitutionally protected.”

“What it does is incite to riot,” Trump said.

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