Trump’s Outrageous and Illegal “Flag Burning” Order
Bulwark Takes
The Bulwark
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🗓️ 26 August 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:28.4 | We got some flag burning stuff to talk about. Can I just take you behind the curtain here |
| 0:34.0 | for a second? I have an actual curtain right here. It feels a little dumb and |
| 0:38.7 | silly to talk about this. Like, I've made a commitment to myself and I'm only going to be |
| 0:42.5 | outraged about the things I'm outraged about. And this is like Trump playing the hits from |
| 0:45.9 | 1988, you know, like I'm going to, I'm playing an old culture war hit from like decades ago. |
| 0:52.0 | That said, I think it is interesting because it's like a tangible thing that people can |
| 0:56.5 | understand. |
| 0:57.2 | A lot of the Trump authoritarian illiberalism stuff, it gets really sort of high-minded. |
| 1:02.2 | And, you know, we start talking about things that regular bros don't care about. |
| 1:06.0 | This is something that even the smooth brained among us can understand. |
| 1:10.0 | And so that's a little teaser about a clip that I want to play here in a minute. |
| 1:15.3 | But before we do that, let's just really quick watch Trump talking about the EO on how you're |
| 1:20.7 | going to go to jail if you burn the flag now yesterday in the Oval Office. |
| 1:23.5 | If you burn a flag, you get one year in jail, no early exits, no nothing. |
| 1:30.8 | You get one year in jail. |
| 1:31.7 | All right, Javiel, before we get to the Brough's reaction, what, do you have any big picture takes on us? |
| 1:35.9 | I mean, important to know that that one year in jail thing seems to have been an ad lib. |
| 1:41.5 | It's not actually in the executive order. |
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