The Supreme Court has ruled that burning the flag is a mode of symbolic speech protected under the First Amendment. Trump’s order appeared to acknowledge the court’s decision, but to aim at instances of flag burning where he indicated that the court’s ruling might not apply, such as when they result in incitement to “imminent lawless action.”

'We are going to circumvent the law any way we can to implement that orange gibbons fantasies.'

'We don't care that it is illegal.'

Ain't shit.

While we taunt him and laugh at his 'orders'.

Remember these?

Go to Amazon, search for "Trump flag."

Take your pick of the various Trump flags available, order as many as you want, and burn them -- in public, call the TV stations and newspapers first, take video, post it online. Drive the worthless bastard crazy!!!!

...buying his stupid flags just so we can burn them.... I laughed at Kid Dumb-as-a-Rock and other MAGAs for buying Bud Light just to shoot it in their back yards for the same reason. I doubt they are allowing even Amazon sellers to get away without paying them a royalty.

I'm sure we could make something looking like a MAGA flag and hat to burn without putting money in his grimy pockets.

But we should by no means start burning American flags. That is exactly the bad look they want us to show the world.

There, WP. Fixed your headline.

That is a law which has nothing, specifically, to do with burning a flag - the flag just happened to be the kindling or the fire. You can't violate generally applicable criminal laws and call it free speech to avoid punishment

First: What Trump said had virtually NOTHING to do with what was in the order. The order didn't purport to make a law, didn't request that Congress make a law, didn't propose a 1-year punishment.

Second: The order did not call for punishing flag burning. It called for enforcing general laws in which flag burning plays a role . . . like enforcing laws against setting fires in national park, regardless of what is used for kindling.


When people react to what the orange menace says - not what he actually signs, we play right into his hands. The first response should be to read what he signs (chances are it has virtually nothing to do with what's coming out of his talking butthole). The second should be to share as widely as possible what that order says so that we don't become part of the problem. The third should be that if you are going to engage in civil disobedience, make sure you got your facts straight. There was diddly squat illegal in the order Trump signed, despite all his hype trying to make it sound like he was doing issuing an illegal order.

where MAGAts congregate.