CHICAGO (AP) — After Donald Trump's historic guilty verdict, a steady flow of images showing upside-down American flags has appeared on social media as his supporters and right-wing commentators protest his felony conviction.
Associated PressA supporter of former President Donald Trump waves an inverted American flag during a demonstration outside Trump Tower, Friday, May 31, 2024, in New York. A day after a New York jury found Trump guilty of 34 felony charges, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee addressed the conviction and likely attempt to cast his campaign in a new light.
The upside-down American flag gained wide attention recently after revelations that it was flown outside the Alexandria, Virginia, home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol by Trump supporters seeking to halt the certification of the 2020 presidential election results. A flag like that was carried by the rioters while they echoed Trump's false claims of election fraud.
Other incendiary rhetoric on social media referred to the verdict as a declaration of"war" or a sign of a coming"civil war." The words"RIP America" trended on X, formerly called Twitter, immediately after the verdict. The U.S. flag code, which is not legally enforceable, says flags should not be inverted except as a signal of"dire distress," but the symbol has been used as a form of protest for decades.
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