WASHINGTON — President Trump signed an executive order Monday meant to ban the burning of the American flag, an act currently protected under the First Amendment. “If you burn a flag, you get one year ...

A U.S. military veteran was filmed burning an American flag outside the White House on the same day that President Donald Trump signed an executive order seeking new consequences for doing so. Trump ...

A man was arrested in Lafayette Park in Washington, D.C., just hours after President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order that mandates prosecution of those caught burning the American ...

The president wants to prosecute protesters who desecrate the American flag, but his order concedes that such protests are typically covered by the First Amendment. By Charlie Savage and Luke ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday directing the Justice Department to pursue criminal penalties against people who “desecrate” the American flag—including by burning ...

President Trump signed an executive order aimed at prosecuting flag burning, despite existing Supreme Court precedent protecting it as free speech. The Supreme Court's 1989 ruling in Texas v. Johnson ...

An Army veteran who was arrested after burning an American flag near the White House told Newsweek he would welcome taking the fight all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Jan Robert Carey, who goes ...

On Nov. 16, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump returned to the White House after spending a weekend at his Florida residence, Mar-a-Lago. As usual, a press photographer was on scene to snap photos.