Donald Trump highlighted that he felt proud about how his administration is taking “the freedom of speech away” from those who burn the American flag. On Wednesday, during the “antifa roundtable” at the White House, the POTUS subtly admitted that an executive order he signed in August defies a major Supreme Court decision.
The decision deemed flag-burning a constitutionally protected political speech form. He claimed flag-burning could be a bigger potential threat than retrenching the First Amendment. Donald Trump said, “We took the freedom of speech away because that’s been through the courts, and the courts said ‘you have freedom of speech’ but what has happened is when you burn a flag, it agitates and irritates crowds — never seen anything like it, on both sides — and you end up with riots.”