HAHA:
I do not support the EO. I do support the utter hilarity I will have in watching people fall into the trap that has multiple giant billboards around it with giant flashing neon signs that say TRAP with massive red arrows pointing at the trap. https://t.co/82Z7OLVw9h
— alexandriabrown (@alexthechick) August 25, 2025
If you actually read the Executive Order, it doesn’t do nearly as much as critics seem to think. Here it is, and here is the key bit:
Notwithstanding the Supreme Court’s rulings on First Amendment protections, the Court has never held that American Flag desecration conducted in a manner that is likely to incite imminent lawless action or that is an action amounting to “fighting words” is constitutionally protected. See Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397, 408-10 (1989).
He’s not trying to override the First Amendment caselaw, and he’s not making new law here. He is suckering Democrats into burning a lot of flags, and endorsing flag-burning, in order to “stick it to Trump.”