"Is Flag Burning Free Speech?" - Trump Threatens JAIL TIME For Protestors Who Burn The American Flag
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🗓️ 27 August 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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President Trump signed an executive order targeting flag burning, calling it a threat to public safety and free speech abuse. The PBD Podcast debates the First Amendment, riots, patriotism, Hillary Clinton’s past stance, and global laws banning flag desecration. Should America jail flag burners?
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| 0:00.0 | Trump flag burning order sparks online conservatives free speech debate, which totally makes sense. |
| 0:07.6 | President Trump new executive order targeting flag burning announced on Monday directs the Attorney General to prosecute |
| 0:13.1 | violations of law involving flag desecration and to pursue litigation that will clarify the scope of First Amendment as it relates to flag desecration. |
| 0:22.6 | Rob, do you want to play this clip with the president? They're going back and forth explaining it. |
| 0:26.6 | Lastly, sir, this is an executive order on flag burning. It charges your attorney general. |
| 0:30.6 | Would you listen to this? This is very important. |
| 0:32.6 | Flag burning. All over the country, they're burning flags. |
| 0:36.6 | All over the world, they burn the American flag. |
| 0:40.0 | And as you know, through a very sad court, |
| 0:44.1 | I guess it was a five to four decision. |
| 0:46.5 | They called it freedom of speech. |
| 0:47.9 | But there's another reason which is perhaps much more important. |
| 0:51.3 | It's called death. |
| 0:52.7 | Because what happens when you burn a flag is the area goes crazy. |
| 0:58.0 | If you have hundreds of people, they go crazy. |
| 1:01.0 | You can do other things, you can burn this piece of paper. |
| 1:04.0 | But when you burn the American flag, it incites riots at levels that we've never seen before. People go crazy. In a way, both ways. |
| 1:15.1 | There are some that are going crazy for doing it. There are others that are angry, angry about them |
| 1:20.5 | doing it. Do you want to discuss that? What the executive order does, sir, charges your |
| 1:25.9 | Department of Justice with investigating instances of flag burning, |
| 1:29.8 | and then where there's evidence of criminal activity, |
| 1:33.2 | where prosecution wouldn't fall afoul of the First Amendment and instructs the Department of Justice to prosecute those |
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