Photograph: New York Daily News Archive/NY Daily News via Getty Images View image in fullscreen Anti-Vietnam war demonstrators burn the flag in Central Park, 1967. Why not the death penalty for cable theft while he’s about it? Yet once again, Trump’s critics are taking him too “literally”, reading his tweet as an outline of policy when surely it is an emotive match thrown into one of the US’s most divisive cultural conflicts by a political arsonist of proven ability. ![]() It was immediately pointed out that the US Supreme Court has in fact upheld flag-burning as a form of free speech protected by the first amendment, in verdicts delivered in 19 and defended even by Trump’s favourite Supreme Court justice, Antonin Scalia – and that stripping Americans of their citizenship would be a novel penalty to say the least. In one of his trademark early morning tweets, at 3.55am on Tuesday, he declared: “Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag – if they do, there must be consequences – perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail!” ![]() Nearly 60 years on, Donald Trump has sought to rekindle passions over the right of every freeborn American to burn the flag. View image in fullscreen Jimi Hendrix performing The Star-Spangled Banner at Woodstock, 1969.
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