Valuetainment - ＂Is Flag Burning Free Speech？＂ - Trump Threatens JAIL TIME For Protestors Who Burn The American Flag

00:00:00.000 Trump flag-burning order sparks online conservatives' free speech debate, which totally makes sense. 0.95

00:00:07.640 President Trump's new executive order targeting flag-burning announced on Monday directs the Attorney General to prosecute violations of law involving flag desecration

00:00:16.760 and to pursue litigation that will clarify the scope of First Amendment as it relates to flag desecration.

00:00:22.820 Rob, do you want to play this clip with the president? They're going back and forth explaining it.

00:00:25.860 Lastly, sir, this is an executive order on flag-burning. It charges your attorney general.

00:00:30.960 Would you listen to this? This is very important. Flag-burning. All over the country, they're burning flags.

00:00:37.180 All over the world, they burn the American flag. And as you know, through a very sad court, I guess it was a five-to-four decision,

00:00:46.540 they called it freedom of speech. But there's another reason which is perhaps much more important.

00:00:51.400 It's called death. Because what happens when you burn a flag is the area goes crazy.

00:00:58.420 If you have hundreds of people, they go crazy. You could do other things. You can burn this piece of paper.

00:01:03.500 You can... And it's... But when you burn the American flag, it incites riots at levels that we've never seen before.

00:01:11.540 People go crazy. In a way, both ways. There are some that are going crazy for doing it.

00:01:17.240 There are others that are angry, angry about them doing it. Do you want to discuss that?

00:01:23.400 Sure. What the executive order does, sir, it charges your Department of Justice with investigating instances of flag-burning.

00:01:29.400 And then where there's evidence of criminal activity, where prosecution wouldn't fall afoul of the First Amendment

00:01:36.300 and instructs the Department of Justice to prosecute those who are engaged in these instances of flag-burning.

00:01:42.080 And what the penalty is going to be, if you burn a flag, you get one year in jail.

00:01:48.680 No early exits, no nothing. You get one year in jail. If you burn a flag, you get...

00:01:53.940 You can pause it right there.

00:01:54.540 And what it does is...

00:01:55.860 So you get one year in jail. Tom, Adam and Vinny, you guys got some thoughts on this.

00:01:59.840 Vinny, I'm going to come to you first.

00:02:00.700 Yeah, Rob, I sent you a video of one of my good friends who I kind of agree with her.

00:02:06.000 But when people say burning a flag in free speech, I know it's protected under the Constitution,

00:02:10.300 but they're twisting what free speech actually is.

00:02:13.400 Free speech is talking, writing, protesting, holding a sign, which a lot of people love holding a sign.

00:02:20.000 The second you light something in fire in public, it's actually illegal.

00:02:23.980 The majority of the United States, in the United States, if you don't have a permit to burn something out in public,

00:02:30.240 if it's not a pit, if it's not a controlled fire, it's illegal.

00:02:34.760 Plain and simple.

00:02:35.400 You can't light a bonfire, you can't start a freaking fire in the middle of the street

00:02:38.700 and start grilling meat in the middle of the street. 0.90

00:02:41.000 I'm being technical right now, okay?

00:02:42.920 So why the hell should burning a flag and these people get a free pass?

00:02:45.840 And don't forget, bro, our flag, and this is my opinion, you can say whatever the hell you want,

00:02:50.140 it's not just a piece of fabric, okay?

00:02:53.700 It's draped over freaking coffins of soldiers who go overseas and fight for the country, okay?

00:02:59.560 They're folded, they're given to freaking families of veterans who get freaking killed for this country.

00:03:05.360 I know what people are going to say, yeah, but they're over there fighting for the right,

00:03:07.360 for the person to come and burn it.

00:03:08.720 You know what the hell you're doing.

00:03:10.000 And Rob, you know who I, I never thought I'd say this in public or live on air,

00:03:14.400 you know who I agree with and whose side I take on this whole thing?

00:03:17.300 Hillary Clinton.

00:03:18.580 Hillary Clinton, one of my best friends.

00:03:20.640 She actually said, you know what Hillary said back in the day in Congress?

00:03:25.080 Rob, can you play that video of Hillary and what she said about flag burning?

00:03:28.700 This is the first time I agree with her about anything.

00:03:31.260 So I hope, Mr. President, that we can pass a law that criminalizes flag burning and desecration.

00:03:38.040 And I agree that this burning, this desecration that can happen to our flag

00:03:45.260 is something that people have a right to ask this body to try to prohibit and prevent it.

00:03:51.860 So I'm going old school Hillary, Pat.

00:03:53.640 I'm just like something bothers me inside when I see that happening.

00:03:57.540 Other people, other countries, whatever, burn, do whatever the hell you want on another country. 0.89

00:04:01.420 But when it happens here, it really pisses me off.

00:04:03.240 Free speech, say whatever you want, hold whatever sign.

00:04:05.780 When it comes to the flag, I'm anti-burning the flag.

00:04:08.340 Adam, where are you at?

00:04:09.560 Well, burning the flag should be legal, but it should be a death sentence for the rest of your life. 0.85

00:04:16.440 What do I mean?

00:04:17.820 Under the First Amendment, you do have freedom of speech.

00:04:21.480 I think there was a Supreme Court ruling that five to four, which Trump mentioned,

00:04:24.600 that you can burn the flag.

00:04:26.280 However, you know how if you go for a job interview and they're like, scrub your social media.

00:04:31.360 Oh, this is what this person did.

00:04:32.740 He said, anyone who burns the American flag, it should be on their resume and on their record forever.

00:04:38.560 So you want to apply for this job.

00:04:41.140 You burnt the American flag, Bill.

00:04:43.400 What were you?

00:04:44.500 Yeah, it was a bad date.

00:04:45.800 Yeah, you're out.

00:04:47.040 You want to go for a loan at the bank?

00:04:50.640 Sorry, Carl, you burnt the flag.

00:04:52.600 But yeah, you're not going to, this isn't going to happen.

00:04:54.580 You go to court, you go to the mall.

00:04:56.280 You should be shamed until infinity.

00:04:58.320 There's three types of people that I think burn the flag.

00:05:01.060 There's just radical leftists, radical leftists.

00:05:04.600 We know what they are.

00:05:05.540 They're usually doing this.

00:05:06.540 There's foreign enemies. 0.99

00:05:07.660 We see what happens in Iran.

00:05:08.800 What do they always yell?

00:05:10.020 Magba, America.

00:05:10.900 Magba, America.

00:05:11.700 Okay.

00:05:12.220 And then there's anti-war activists.

00:05:14.380 Here's my only problem with the anti-war activists.

00:05:16.620 If the only war in the history of your life you've ever protested against is Israel, 0.68

00:05:23.900 you probably aren't anti-war.

00:05:26.140 You probably just hate Israel.

00:05:27.140 So these are the types of people that burn the flag.

00:05:29.960 Tom, any thoughts?

00:05:31.060 Yes.

00:05:31.740 So I have to listen carefully to what the president said.

00:05:34.360 First of all, I will tell you, the price of, and I've said this before,

00:05:39.320 the price of free speech is free speech.

00:05:42.160 You may not like what the other guy says, but that's the price of free speech.

00:05:46.460 Now then, line, where's the line?

00:05:49.320 The president used the word inciting.

00:05:52.560 Inciting riots is against the law.

00:05:55.120 You cannot incite riots.

00:05:56.720 You can have a demonstration.

00:05:57.940 You can protest a war.

00:05:59.060 You can protest a lot of things.

00:06:00.280 You can get a permit even at the University of Alabama and say you want to protest Israel. 0.56

00:06:05.960 And you can have a lot of people surround you and suddenly realize that you're outnumbered

00:06:08.860 and maybe call off your protest.

00:06:10.360 That's free speech.

00:06:11.380 And that's also public discourse coming back to talk to you.

00:06:14.740 But the president was saying about inciting riots and then asking the Justice Department to investigate to see,

00:06:24.000 were you desecrating the flag to incite a riot?

00:06:27.020 If you are, guess what?

00:06:29.480 That's we're not going to stand for that.

00:06:31.380 And the one year in jail, I want to see how this shakes out because I think you have free speech, but then you have inciting riots and then you have going over that edge of the desecration, which incites the riots.

00:06:43.040 And so it's like, hey, you went out there to have a demonstration, you burnt the flag, you incited a riot, and you got your butt kicked.

00:06:49.440 And guess what?

00:06:50.460 Sorry.

00:06:51.200 You know, you're going to get one year.

00:06:52.280 I want to see it play out.

00:06:53.500 But there's some logic that goes behind this and a lot of precedents that the president is pointing to.

00:06:59.260 And thank you so much for the clip that Hillary Clinton seems to agree.

00:07:03.580 What did she use the word? 1.00

00:07:05.940 Desecration.

00:07:06.620 Isn't that interesting?

00:07:07.560 Yeah.

00:07:07.840 I mean, look, to me, it's very simple.

00:07:10.800 If you don't love the country, you have other options.

00:07:13.900 Go somewhere where you have pride.

00:07:15.420 I love America.

00:07:17.080 I served for this country because I love this place.

00:07:20.940 This is a special place.

00:07:22.480 It's the greatest country in the world.

00:07:24.340 The Turning Point USA guys do a great job.

00:07:26.080 One of the guys goes out there asking these college students, I don't know if you've seen this, this just came out.

00:07:31.440 Rob, can you play this clip?

00:07:32.660 This defines my views of when they say it's America the greatest country in the world.

00:07:37.280 And then when the option is given, look how they respond.

00:07:39.860 Go ahead, Rob.

00:07:40.720 America the greatest country in the world?

00:07:43.160 No.

00:07:43.480 If you were offered a one-way ticket to leave the country, never come back, but it's all expenses paid, would you accept that offer?

00:07:53.860 I don't see her.

00:07:54.500 I don't think that I would leave.

00:07:58.600 I wouldn't leave either.

00:07:59.620 Oh, really?

00:08:00.120 Is America the real leader?

00:08:01.580 Exactly.

00:08:02.060 But that's the point, though.

00:08:03.760 Everybody talks a lot of shit until eventually you're faced with a decision that's like, no, no, no.

00:08:08.520 Yeah.

00:08:08.840 I wouldn't leave.

00:08:09.800 I wouldn't go anywhere.

00:08:11.020 Our, not limo driver, limo driver, but people haven't used that phrase for a word.

00:08:14.440 Our Uber driver.

00:08:14.760 Limo.

00:08:15.080 Our.

00:08:16.160 You're talking about in L.A.?

00:08:17.600 Our Filipino Uber driver.

00:08:19.220 Oh, yeah.

00:08:19.460 Where will we ride?

00:08:20.340 We're in L.A.

00:08:20.960 We were in L.A.

00:08:21.380 We were on our way to Raffi's.

00:08:23.140 We're driving around, and this guy's just like, we're having a conversation.

00:08:26.220 And by the way, the Jubilee interview that's coming out this Sunday, we're having a conversation.

00:08:29.640 It's like, da, da, da, da.

00:08:30.760 No, I don't.

00:08:31.300 I won't.

00:08:31.740 I would take the money.

00:08:32.740 I would leave.

00:08:33.480 I won't.

00:08:33.800 Why are you in America?

00:08:35.180 Because, you know, it's not as bad.

00:08:36.500 You think it's a great country?

00:08:37.900 And just listen to this guy.

00:08:39.960 Then just leave.

00:08:40.860 So if you want to burn the flag, I don't feel comfortable about it.

00:08:44.100 By the way, other countries.

00:08:45.220 China, if you burn the flag.

00:08:46.840 Three years in prison.

00:08:48.080 Russia, fines or prison.

00:08:49.740 India, prevention of insults to national honor.

00:08:53.100 It's illegal.

00:08:53.980 You can't do it.

00:08:55.000 Saudi Arabia and many other Middle Eastern countries, strict bans, heavy penalties.

00:08:59.600 Turkey, prison sentence or for insulting the national flag.

00:09:03.000 Mexico.

00:09:03.700 Mexico.

00:09:04.740 Up to four years.

00:09:06.260 Okay?

00:09:07.080 So then you go Singapore, Malaysia, strong bans.

00:09:09.360 There's a lot of different countries that have different laws for this.

00:09:12.580 I'm glad America is finally putting it in place as well.

00:09:15.360 But it is not a popular decision to make.

00:09:18.480 And for those who don't support it, I get your argument as well.

00:09:21.480 This is my line.

00:09:22.940 Don't burn the flag.

00:09:23.920 If you don't like it, go elsewhere.

00:09:25.180 I love those other countries.

00:09:26.400 It says, don't even insult the flag.

00:09:29.000 Yeah.

00:09:29.320 If you even do, you're going places.

00:09:32.180 Never mind burn it.

00:09:33.180 You insult the flag.

00:09:33.960 In certain countries, you can't burn the flag, but you can burn people.

00:09:37.820 Yeah, it's totally cool.

00:09:38.480 If you're an apostate.

00:09:40.380 You know what's interesting?

00:09:41.640 This is what I've seen with, you know, because I do my American flag thing and walk around

00:09:45.800 and give the people.

00:09:46.260 You know what I've realized?

00:09:47.320 Everyone who hates America, everyone who basically has a massive distaste for America,

00:09:52.520 they're always comparing America to utopia.

00:09:55.660 Well, we're not the greatest country in the world.

00:09:58.040 And any time you give them a, all right, if not option A, option B, and option B is any

00:10:03.220 other country, they never pick the other country.

00:10:05.840 Yeah.

00:10:06.040 Because there's no perfect country.

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Valuetainment - August 27, 2025

＂Is Flag Burning Free Speech？＂ - Trump Threatens JAIL TIME For Protestors Who Burn The American Flag

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