""A lot of people are very threatened by this flag. It means a lot of different negative things to people, violence,""
""Well, I wouldn't be,""
""Then they'll sue, and they'll get freedom of speech stuff. So that'll happen. But I would have no problem with it.""
President Donald Trump said in the Oval Office that he would have 'no problem' with removing Progress Pride flags from Washington, D.C. streets and suggested the banners could be treated as symbols of domestic terrorism. The exchange occurred with Brian Glenn, a correspondent for Real America's Voice and the boyfriend of Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, after Glenn showed a photo of a Progress Pride flag on 14th Street and called it a 'trans flag.' Trump acknowledged that removal would prompt lawsuits and freedom-of-speech defenses but said he personally would have no problem. He compared the flags to burning the American flag and referenced a recent attempt to criminalize flag burning by executive order. The Progress Pride flag, introduced in 2018 by nonbinary designer Daniel Quasar, reimagines Gilbert Baker's rainbow to signal visibility and belonging.
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