Patriot Theater
As he inches (“foots”? “yards”?) us toward fascism, Trump regularly pauses to throw the booboisie some red (or red, white and blue) meat:
Yesterday President Donald Trump signed a new executive order on the “burning of the American flag.” As usual, the president decided to freelance a bit while signing the executive order in front of the cameras and declared that “you burn a flag, you get one year in jail.” Now that would be an interesting executive order! But fortunately, the order he signed does not actually say that. In fact, it is so hemmed in by legal qualifications that it does not do much of anything at all. Other than, of course, provide the president with the opportunity to hold a press conference and excite his fans with some patriotic bluster.