“Burning the American flag, I want to get a law passed … you burn an American flag, you go to jail for one year. You gotta do it… We gotta do it. They say it’s not constitutional. They say, ‘Sir, that’s unconstitutional.’ We’ll make it constitutional.”
Why?
This literally solves ZERO problems. No one is injured by burning a piece of cloth.
But people die from malnutrition, guns, climate change and disease—things he promises to do nothing about.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-burning-american-flag-jail_n_66cd720ee4b0778aee5fc9f8
No, he wants to make it illegal to burn the flag as a form of freedom of speech. Basically he wants to neuter the First Amendment for things he doesn’t like.