‌He cited his executive order placed on August 25 on flag desecration and threatened the legal battles against those arrested. After signing the order, Trump claimed “you burn a flag, you get one year in jail” but the order itself does not include details about a potential jail sentence. Trump has long advocated for criminalizing flag burning. "President Trump will always protect the First Amendment, while simultaneously implementing commonsense, tough-on-crime policies to prevent violence and chaos." An updated YouGov survey from September 2023 found that 59% of Americans now consider burning an American flag during protests to be “always unacceptable”.