{"id":46119,"date":"2025-08-25T16:27:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T16:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=46119"},"modified":"2026-07-08T02:21:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T02:21:59","slug":"does-trump-introduce-or-sign-a-bill-criminalizing-bending-the-u-s-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2025\/08\/25\/does-trump-introduce-or-sign-a-bill-criminalizing-bending-the-u-s-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Trump Introduce or Sign a Bill Criminalizing Bending the U.S. Flag?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is no evidence that former President Donald Trump has introduced or signed any bill making it a crime to bend the U.S. flag. Current actions relate only to flag desecration, particularly flag burning, not bending or other forms of disrespect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>has<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>&nbsp;been reported (August 25, 2025):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Multiple news outlets report that Trump signed an executive order directing the Department of Justice to prosecute instances of flag burning\u2014a form of desecration\u2014arguing it incites violence.<br>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The order does not create new criminal law, nor does it mention bending the flag. It instead instructs the AG to explore charges under existing statutes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Trump stated, \u201cIf you burn a flag, you get one year in jail, no early exits, no nothing.\u201d \u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>This directly conflicts with the Supreme Court\u2019s longstanding ruling in Texas v. Johnson (1989), which found flag burning to be protected symbolic speech under the First Amendment. \u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Earlier reports flagged that Senator Josh Hawley introduced the Enhanced Penalties for Criminal Flag Burners Act, which Trump publicly supported. This, too, is focused solely on burning, not bending. \u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no evidence that former President Donald Trump has introduced or signed any bill making it a crime to bend the U.S. flag. Current actions relate only to flag desecration, particularly flag burning, not bending or other forms of disrespect. What&nbsp; has &nbsp;been reported (August 25, 2025):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":46120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[11941,10446,9194,10507,10393,12009,11858,7351,10419,10342,8874,3805,6082,10041,1825,5355,184],"class_list":["post-46119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-bill","tag-burning","tag-charges","tag-court","tag-department-of-justice","tag-executive-order","tag-flagged","tag-jail","tag-justice","tag-law","tag-penalties","tag-president","tag-senator","tag-speech","tag-supreme-court","tag-texas","tag-united-states-president-donald-john-trump-jr"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46121,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46119\/revisions\/46121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}