Donald Trump’s latest executive order directs the attorney general to prosecute and jail for one year any individual who desecrates the US flag in any way, including burning. Civil rights groups are now questioning whether the new directive is unconstitutional.
A veteran has already gone outside the White House to protest the new executive order and burned the flag to truly test the limits of Trump’s new executive order. The veteran burned a flag and called the president a fascist on a megaphone. When he was escorted from the location by police — users online questioned why he was being arrested and whether the First Amendment is being chipped away by the president.
