Former President Donald Trump is now a convicted felon, and in protest, his supporters are sharing upside-down American flags all across X.
Trump was found guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records by a Manhattan jury on Thursday in his hush money trial.
Accounts sharing the inverted American flag include those of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Fox News contributors Katie Pavlich and Guy Benson, and conservative commentator Dan Bongino.
According to the U.S. flag code, which is unenforceable, flying the flag upside down is “an international signal of distress.”
The upside-down flag has been widely talked about recently after photos surfaced of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and his wife’s house flying it after the Jan. 6, 2021, riots. A New York Times article revealed they hung an inverted American flag outside their home, which Alito’s wife claimed had no connection to the riots and instead was a response to hateful signage their neighbors had been posting.
Since then, Democrats have attacked the justice and his wife, demanding he recuse himself from cases about Jan. 6 and Trump’s trials. He has brushed off those attempts.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez responded to Greene’s use of the flag with another post on X.
But it’s not just inverted flags being posted in support of Trump. Reps. Eric Burlison (R-MO) and Barry Moore (R-AL) have posted variations of the “An Appeal to Heaven” flag, also known as the pine tree flag. It was first flown by troops during the Revolutionary War, associated with American independence. The flag was flying at San Francisco City Hall for 60 years until earlier Thursday, following the verdict of Trump’s hush money trial. City officials have now associated it with Capitol rioters.
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Since Trump’s conviction, the No. 1 trending topic on X has been civil war.
Trump’s lawyers have announced plans to appeal the verdict.
