President Trump signed an executive order Monday meant to ban the burning of the American flag, an act currently protected under the First Amendment.

“If you burn a flag, you get one year in jail — no early exits, no nothing,” Trump said while signing the order.

“And you will see flag-burning stopping immediately,” he added, claiming an action he took in his first administration to protect national monuments from being destroyed had a similar effect.

The Department of Justice is ordered to probe all incidents of setting the Stars and Stripes ablaze and bring charges “where prosecution wouldn’t fall a foul of the First Amendment,” White House staff secretary Will Scharf noted.

The order authorizes Attorney General Pam Bondi to “vigorously prosecute those who violate our laws in ways that involve desecrating the American Flag”.