American Flags Burned Outside Trump Hotel After President-Elect’s Flag-Burning Comments (Video)
After Donald Trump tweeted that anyone who burns the American flag should face severe consequences, protesters gathered outside Trump International Hotel in New York City Tuesday night — to burn American flags.
According to Fox News Insider, members of the far-left NYC Revolution Club poured accelerant on a pair of American flags and lit them on fire.
Just burned US flag at Trump Hotel NYC. We REFUSE to Accept a Fascist America! Now your turn: #FlagBurningChallenge pic.twitter.com/pvMDaVIyKD
— Sunsara Taylor (@SunsaraTaylor) November 29, 2016
"Oops!" We did it again
Reject a Fascist America#FlagBurningChallenge#1stAmendment#NotMyPresident#NoDAPL#RevCom pic.twitter.com/YqxY69xNIO— Sunsara Taylor (@SunsaraTaylor) November 29, 2016
And here it is from earlier this evening. Thanks @SunsaraTaylor
Fuck you @realDonaldTrump
Who's next for the #FlagBurningChallenge ? https://t.co/jgPgp8Aj0E— Noche RC (@Noche_RC) November 30, 2016
Earlier in the day, Trump fired off a tweet stating people who burn the American flag should face jail time or even a loss of citizenship, despite protection of the practice under the First Amendment. The tweet was presumably a response to Hampshire College students burning flags in protest of presidential election results.
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Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag – if they do, there must be consequences – perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 29, 2016
Trump transition team communications director Jason Miller appeared on CNN’s “New Day” shortly after the president-elect’s tweet to defend his boss.
“Flag burning is completely ridiculous and I think you know that. I think the vast majority of Americans would agree,” Miller said before CNN’s Chris Cuomo chimed in, “But legal.”
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Piers Morgan took to Twitter Tuesday morning, reminding the Twitter community that Hillary Clinton once “backed criminalisation of flag-burning.”
According a New York Times article from 2005, Clinton co-sponsored a bill to “criminalize the burning of the American flag. Her supporters would characterize this as an attempt to find a middle way between those who believe that flag-burning is constitutionally protected free speech and those who want to ban it, even if it takes a constitutional amendment.”
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