‘If you burn the flag, you go to jail’: Trump says he wants a law criminalizing desecration of the symbol

reiterated calls

US President Donald Trump has reiterated calls for a law that will ban the burning of the American flag – an act which is now protected as free speech – after Black Lives Matter protesters have repeatedly torched the flag.

“We ought to come up with legislation that if you burn the American flag you go to jail for one year,” Trump said at a campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma – his first ‘Make America Great Again’ rally in three months – on Saturday.

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