Sunday 24 September 2017

Donald Trump Condoning Flag Burning After Previously Endorsing The Act Is A Fake Tweet Image

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President Donald Trump endorsing the act of flag burning in February 2011 before condemning flag burning in November 2016 is a fake tweet. There is no truth to an image of a tweet allegedly attributed to Trump regarding the controversial act of flag burning. Where did this fake tweet originate?


On Nov. 29, 2016, President-elect Trump issued a controversial tweet about imposing strict consequences for flag burning which you can see below. “Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag – if they do, there must be consequences – perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail!” Trump wrote in a post to his social media account.




Now, Trump has been issuing a strong opinion on how NFL players should be handled when they kneel during the national anthem. It would seem that someone then took it upon themselves to create a fake tweet allegedly attributed to Trump that showed his conflicting stance on flag burning (as seen below).


Snopes reported that the above image showing Trump approved of flag burning was fake. Their research included a use of Twitter’s advanced search tool, which pulled up the entirety of Trump’s February 2011 remarks on Twitter and turned up no such post. Additionally, it was noted that Trump did not receive as much engagement in 2011 as he does now with this Twitter followers.


Rather than the tens of thousands of likes and retweets displayed in the alleged February 2011 Trump pro-flag burning tweet, his Twitter posts from that period generated less than a hundred of each.






It is quite possible to delete tweets but most of Trump’s deleted tweets have been archived by third-party services. Here are some examples of people sharing the fake tweet on social media.
















Flag desecration is a term applied to the desecration of flags or violation of flag protocol, a various set of acts that intentionally destroy, damage, or mutilate a flag in public. Often, in case of a national flag, such action is intended to make a political point against a country or its policies.


Laws prohibiting the burning or desecration of the flag have been struck down by the Supreme Court, most recently in 1990, because they were found to have violated the First Amendment of the Constitution, which protects freedom of speech. A 1958 Supreme Court decision rejected the practice of stripping U.S. citizenship as a form of criminal punishment, on the grounds that it violates Eighth Amendment protections against “cruel and unusual punishment.”


What did you think of the fake tweet attributed to Trump about flag burning? Did you believe it or see people sharing it falsely on social media? Let us know in the comments section.


Photo credit: Gage Skidmore, Flickr



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