President Joe Biden proudly displays the American flag at his home in Delaware and thinks that people can both respect the symbol and peacefully protest, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Monday.
“Well, I would say first, the president certainly values and respects the symbol of the American flag,” Psaki said in response to a question during Monday’s briefing regarding a New York Times column that described the flag as alienating. “He’s someone who certainly waves it outside of his house, or does in Delaware and other places where he’s lived throughout his time.”
“He also believes that people have the right to peaceful protests, and he thinks both can be true,” the chief White House spokeswoman added.
Anti-communist protesters, gathering both in Cuba and the United States, displayed the American flag over the weekend.
The unprecedented protests marked the largest mass demonstrations in modern Cuban history, and Biden said in a statement earlier on Monday that they marked a “clarion call for freedom.”
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“We stand with the Cuban people and their clarion call for freedom and relief from the tragic grip of the pandemic and from the decades of repression and economic suffering to which they have been subjected by Cuba’s authoritarian regime,” Biden wrote in his first comments on the mass protests. “The Cuban people are bravely asserting fundamental and universal rights. Those rights, including the right of peaceful protest and the right to freely determine their own future, must be respected.”
You can watch Monday’s entire briefing below.
