Flag burning is now illegal? Sorta maybe?

[MattR]

Apparently our commander in chief just said flag burning is illegal. He said when people burn flags other people "go crazy" and start riots and lots of people die and it goes on all across the country and even the world! Any idea how this works with the flag code? Or even the fact that the executive branch can't make laws? Maybe someone needs to take the Cit in the Nation MB. It just drives me crazy when the fundamentals of the flag code are misunderstood and now this, from our elected leader.

So after said leader spewed word salad saying it was now illegal some other guy said that the DOJ would investigate any flag burning and "where there's evidence of criminal activity [and] where prosecution wouldn't fall afoul of first amendment rights ... " then the DOJ should prosecute. Ummmm, what? Sounds like an executive order written to mollify exactly one person. 

So I guess if you peacefully burn a flag in protest then it's okay? I think I might go burn a flag, not in protest but rather to retire it with dignity. But if it doesn't involve first amendment rights then it's illegal, no?

Oh wait, at the same time that this executive order was signed another was signed, directing the DoD to take a larger role in "quelling civil disturbances." Probably all those scouts retiring flags. Maybe this was all just an AI hallucination.

[Tron]

So what's going on is a DC circuit court judge has dictated that burning the Israeli flag is a hate crime; therefore the response is "How is it a hate crime and illegal to burn a foreign nations flag but not illegal to burn our flag?". When stupid people do stupid things it's very common for more stupid things to happen in response.