Trump Crowd Goes WILD When He Proposes Blatantly Unconstitutional Prison Sentences for Flag Burners

Former President Donald Trump received wild applause when he proposed prison time for people who burn the American flag.

Speaking at a rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania on Friday, Trump falsely claimed that such a penalty is “not unconstitutional.”

“They never talk about the American Dream,” he said of Democrats. “They never mention it. They don’t talk about the American flag . By the way, the American flag? We’ve got some of the greatest congressmen warriors here that you have anywhere. And congressmen go to Congress soon, like immediately, but soon. We should give a one-year sentence in jail to anybody that burns the American flag.”

His remark prompted the crowd to cheer wildly and chant, “U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!”

“That looked so bad at the Democrat national– I call it Democrat,” he continued. “You know, they want to be called ‘Democratic.’ I said then change your name. They don’t change their name. Sounds worse, so I use it. But at the Democrat National Convention, I watched those American flags burning all over the place. I think it’s a disgrace. And they said it’s unconstitutional to stop it. Like hell it is, ok? Like hell it is. It’s not unconstitutional.”

Trump is wrong, as burning the American flag is constitutionally protected speech.

In 1989, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Texas law criminalizing the act. A man named Gregory Lee Johnson had burned a flag outside the 1984 Republican National Convention to protest President Ronald Reagan.

The court reaffirmed the ruling in 1990 when it invalidated a federal law banning flag burning.

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