President Trump signed an executive order Monday that seeks to punish people who burn the American flag, accusing those who do so of displaying hostility and contempt toward the United States.

Mr. Trump has for years threatened to crack down on flag burning. In 2016, he wrote on social media that anyone who burns the American flag should lose their citizenship or face jail time. During a 2024 speech before the National Guard Association of the United States, then-candidate Trump said he would work to pass a law imposing criminal penalties on those who burn the American flag.

In remarks from the Oval Office on Monday, Mr. Trump alleged that burning the American flag “incites riots” and said those who are prosecuted and convicted as a result of his directive would face one year in prison. “The people in this country don’t want to see our American flag burned and spit on,” the president said.

Trump’s executive order on flag burning:

Titled “Prosecuting Burning of the American Flag,” Mr. Trump’s executive order does not direct the attorney general to prosecute those who burn flags for the act itself. Rather, it says the Justice Department should bring cases “against acts of American Flag desecration that violate applicable, content-neutral laws, while causing harm unrelated to expression, consistent with the First Amendment.” Examples of those laws include “violent crimes; hate crimes, illegal discrimination against American citizens, or other violations of Americans’ civil rights; and crimes against property and the peace.”

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