Trump wants to lock up flag burners as he insists world’s autocrats think Americans are ‘bunch of babies’

Donald Trump has suggested that those who desecrate the US flag should spend a year behind bars.

The former president made the comments during a free-wheeling call to Fox & Friends on Fox News on Thursday morning, where he also attacked his new rival for the White House, Kamala Harris. His rant about the flag comes after protesters outraged at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the U.S. burned the American flag as well as an effigy of Netanyahu on the streets of Washington, D.C., in protest of the Biden administration sending military aid to Israel amid its war in Gaza.

“I think you should get a one-year jail sentence if you do anything to desecrate the American flag,” Trump said on Fox. “Now, people will say, ‘Oh, it’s unconstitutional.’ Those are stupid people. Those are stupid people that say that.”

Trump claimed that if Congress passed a law instituting such a rule, the flag burning would cease. In 1989, the Supreme Court ruled in Texas v. Johnson that flag burning is protected under the First Amendment.

The former president added that Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un “[look] at us like we’re a bunch of babies.”

“It’s impossible for that to happen in their countries,” Trump said of the autocracies. “We look so bad for the world, that was a disgraceful display yesterday.”

When asked about his plan to end the war in Gaza, Trump said he wants Netanyahu “to finish up, and get it done quickly. You’ve got to get it done quickly because they’re getting decimating with this publicity.”

“Israel’s not very good with public relations, I’ll tell you that,” he added before going on to claim that the October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas, nor the war