Big, if true.

[Tommy Carcetti]

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Acyn @Acyn

Trump on flag burning: We took the freedom of speech away

3:40 PM · Oct 8, 2025 · 14.7K Views

Heh.

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1. Freedom of speech leads to riots, and riots bad, says the clown who pardoned 1500 rioters....

[Captain Zero]

2. Gather up Trump Flags & Burn Those !!

Not the American Flag.

[Cha]

8. Yes, the American Flags belong to

Patriots.

Haven't they noticed No Kings Day & All the Us Flags being waved? I had one, too.

[Cha]

3. I'm not watching.. but I have this to say

about "flag burning"... I don't think Patriots should be burning the US Flag.

It's our Flag.. we are the Patriots.. Traitor is a fucking Neo Nazi.

[Tommy Carcetti]

4. I wouldn't do it either.

And it's probably counterproductive.

That said, it's still free speech and expression.

[obamanut2012]

5. Patriots are who should burn flags

[Cha]

10. No

[Ping Tung]

6. "Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's minds

“Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s minds & then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.”

Arundhati Roy

[Deuxcents]

7. I don't like to see our flag being burned but I also believe in the right to protest and do it. What I don't like is

People wearing the flag as headbands, bathing suits, shorts, or any clothing. A picture of the flag on a T-shirt doesn’t bother me but not as articles of clothing. A draft dodger hugging and kissing the flag is not ok with me, either.

[Ms. Toad]

9. Nonsense

He has no idea what he signed. The executive order does not criminalize flag burning. It directs the justice department to charge anyone violating unrelated laws if that violation involves burning a flag. For example, there are laws banning open burning in many jurisdictions, so if you happen to be on federal land in a space where open burning is prohibited, he has told her justice department to prioritize violations of the open burn law if what you b are burning is the flag. But if you move a few feet over and burn it in a campsite with a designated barbecue pit, you're good to go.

It is like the marijuana laws. Marijuana is illegal in every state, because federal law prohibits it, and supercedes state law. But every administration has turned a blind eye to it recently by declining to prosecute (since they can't possibly prosecute everything).

So just to complete the hypothetical - if you use an American flag to light your joint, expect to be prosecuted for smoking marijuana since you burned a flag to light it.