<p>Former President Donald Trump said on Thursday morning that demonstrators who light the American flag on fire should face a one-year jail sentence.</p>
<p>Trump called for jail sentences for flag burners during an interview with &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends&#8221; hosts the day after anti-Israel protesters gathered in Washington, D.C., and burned an American flag as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed Congress.</p>
<p>&#8220;Rarely have we seen anything like this,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;And I think you should get a one-year jail sentence if you do anything to desecrate the American flag. Now people will say, &#8216;Oh, it&#8217;s unconstitutional.&#8217; Those are stupid people. Those are stupid people that say that.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;We have to work in Congress to get a one-year jail sentence,&#8221; he added. &#8220;When they&#8217;re allowed to stomp on the flag and put lighter fluid on the flag and set it afire — when you&#8217;re allowed to do that — you get a one-year jail sentence, and you&#8217;ll never see it again. And all over the world, Putin and President Xi of China, all over the world they&#8217;re watching this. Kim Jong Un, he looks at us like we&#8217;re a bunch of babies. They see that, that wouldn&#8217;t happen in their countries. It&#8217;s impossible for that to happen in their countries. We look so bad to the world. That was a disgraceful display yesterday.&#8221;</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Donald Trump calls for a &#8220;one-year jail sentence&#8221; as punishment for desecrating the American flag.</p>
<p>&#8220;People will say, &#8216;Oh, it&#8217;s unconstitutional.&#8217; Those are stupid people. Those are stupid people that say that.&#8221;<a href="https://t.co/sGXcTwd1my">pic.twitter.com/sGXcTwd1my</a></p>
<p>— The American Conservative (@amconmag) <a href="https://twitter.com/amconmag/status/1816482353189163048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 25, 2024</a></p></blockquote>
<p>A large group of anti-Israel demonstrators faced off with police at Union Station in the nation&#8217;s capital on Wednesday as they protested Netanyahu&#8217;s speech before Congress. The protesters chanted &#8220;Allahu Akbar&#8221; and painted the words &#8220;Hamas,&#8221; &#8220;Gaza,&#8221; and &#8220;Free Palestine&#8221; on a monument outside of Union Station. Hamas flags and headbands were also spotted on Capitol Hill.</p>
<p>As Trump calls for flag burners to be jailed, some Republicans have introduced legislation &#8220;to deport any foreigner involved in violence and vandalism on federal property,&#8221; according to Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR).</p>
<p>&#8220;The actions of the pro-Hamas lunatics at Union Station in DC are shameful, and anyone on a visa who took part should have it revoked immediately,&#8221; Cotton said.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">This morning my colleagues and I introduced a bill to deport any foreigner involved in violence and vandalism on federal property.</p>
<p>The actions of the pro-Hamas lunatics at Union Station in DC are shameful, and anyone on a visa who took part should have it revoked immediately. <a href="https://t.co/A0I2FVmeh8">pic.twitter.com/A0I2FVmeh8</a></p>
<p>— Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenTomCotton/status/1816244870387745259?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 24, 2024</a></p></blockquote>
Burning the American flag is protected political speech. In the 1980s, a Texas man named Gregory Lee Johnson was sentenced to one year in jail for burning an American flag to protest the Reagan administration. A Texas Court of Criminal Appeals reversed Johnson&#8217;s conviction, and the Supreme Court ruled in <a href="https://www.oyez.org/cases/1988/88-155" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Johnson v. Texas</em></a> in 1989 that the Texas man&#8217;s burning of the flag was protected speech under the First Amendment. The 5-4 majority opinion was written by liberal Justice William Brennan Jr. and joined by conservative Justices Anthony Kennedy and Antonin Scalia.</p>
<p>Shortly before his death, in a 2015 public appearance, Scalia <a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/originalism-on-trial/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commented</a> on the precedent-setting 1989 decision, saying, “If it were up to me, I would put in jail every sandal-wearing, scruffy bearded weirdo who burns the American flag. But I am not king.”</p>

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