FIRST ON FOX: President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Monday cracking down on suspects who desecrate the American flag, including burning it, by mandating they face prosecution, Fox News Digital exclusively learned. 

"The American flag is the most sacred and cherished symbol of the United States of America, and desecrating it is uniquely and inherently offensive and provocative. It is a statement of contempt and hostility toward our Nation, and an act used by groups of foreign nationals calculated to intimidate and threaten violence against Americans," a fact sheet on the order provided to Fox News Digital reads. 

The executive order will direct the attorney general to prosecute those who violate laws "in ways that involve desecrating the flag," and to pursue litigation that would clarify the scope of the First Amendment as it relates to flag desecration. The order additionally directs Attorney General Pam Bondi to refer flag desecration cases that violate state and local laws to appropriate local authorities. 

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The American flag has been desecrated by protesters in recent months, as captured in video footage, most notably during anti-Israel protests that rocked U.S. cities and college campuses under the Biden administration and during Trump administration ICE raids to remove illegal aliens from the nation. 

The order directs the attorney general and secretary of homeland security to deny, prohibit, terminate, or revoke visas or other immigration permits and benefits of a non-citizen "wherever there has been an appropriate determination that flag desecration by foreign nationals permits the exercise of those remedies under applicable law," according to the fact sheet. 

Anti-Israel protesters were seen lighting the American flag on fire outside the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in August 2024, as well as in Washington, D.C., in July 2024 when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed Congress amid the war that has continued since 2023, as well as flag burning in New York City's Washington Square Park over the Fourth of July weekend in 2024 to protest U.S. support of Israel. 

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More recently, anti-ICE protesters were seen in June waving Mexican flags on the streets of Los Angeles while burning Old Glory in response to federal law enforcement raiding the city to remove illegal migrants as part of the Trump administration's efforts to secure the U.S. border. 

"This is not just a gesture, this is something we need to make real. We need to take down this empire once and for all," a protester holding a bullhorn in Los Angeles was heard saying as the American flag laid on the ground engulfed in flames, the New York Post reported in June. 

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One protester was seen spitting on the flag as it burned. 

Opposition to the flag and the national anthem grew large in 2020, when a spate of professional athletes kneeled for "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the start of games while sports fans held their hands over their hearts and directed their attention toward the flag. Former NFL player Colin Kaepernick was the first sports player to popularize kneeling during the national anthem back in 2016 before it grew in popularity in 2020 amid the Black Lives Matter and defund the police protests that swept the nation following the death of George Floyd. 

Trump's expected executive order on Monday follows a handful of other presidential actions and initiatives he has launched to restore and promote patriotism, including banning State Department offices nationwide, such as embassies, from flying any other flag than America's. 

The president additionally installed two massive 88-foot-tall American flags on either side of the White House in June as part of a patriotic endeavor that Trump personally funded. 

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"President Trump personally paid to install two big, beautiful American Flags to wave proudly over the White House for years to come. This is just one of many projects President Trump selflessly paid for to make the White House even more patriotic and beautiful," White House spokesperson Davis Ingle told Fox News Digital of the newly-installed White House flags back in July. 

California Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom exposed children to inappropriate sexual content and indoctrinated them with twisted ideas about childhood sexuality using federal tax dollars. The Trump administration has brought this to an end. 

California’s federally funded Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) is riddled with radical gender ideology that denies biological reality, rejects gold-standard, evidence-based science and exceeds the scope of PREP’s authorizing statute. As a result, California will not receive further federal funding to indoctrinate children. 

The purpose of PREP, according to its authorizing statute, is "to educate adolescents on … both abstinence and contraception for the prevention of pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections" (42 U.S.C. § 713(b)(2)(A)). Program materials must rely on "medically-accurate," "age-appropriate" information and are encouraged to display examples of "healthy relationships, including marriage and family interactions" as well as "parent-child communication." 

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While the governor’s office claims that California PREP provides "comprehensive" and "evidence-based" education, the written curricula tell a different story. Take "Teen Talk," one of the governor’s courses for middle- and high schoolers. The program instructs teachers to "remind students that some men are born with female anatomy."  A boy can, according to ‘Teen Talk,’ "feel like a girl inside" and so defy his "community’s expectations for behavior."  

For an impressionable youth experiencing gender dysphoria, "Teen Talk" suggests ways that they might go about realizing their "gender identity" by "changing their name," "altering their body … through hormone therapy," "adding or removing breast tissue," or even "transforming" (that is, mutilating) "the genitals." 

Instead of providing medically accurate, biologically sound educational materials, Newsom’s PREP materials teach children a harmful lie that can put young boys and girls in physical danger. These materials build the foundation for young men to compete against women in sports and invade women’s spaces, like locker rooms.  

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Worse, the social contagion of gender ideology makes young girls – potentially already anxious about their bodies – more likely to take puberty blockers or undergo irreversible surgery that can eliminate their ability to have children and increase their risk of suicide. 

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Parents deserve to know what their children are being taught in the classroom, and we owe them transparency. Under the noses of parents, California’s government codified indoctrination into state law.  The California Healthy Youth Act, which was signed in 2016, requires sexual health education to affirm radical gender ideology.  

But evading parents to provide so-called "gender-affirming" care has not led to better outcomes for gender-confused children. One private analysis of data gathered by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that the suicide rate spiked among 12-to-23-year-olds in states with minor access to puberty blocks and cross-sex hormones without parental consent relative to their contemporaries in states that limited children’s access to hormone treatment. While California is free to use state funds to finance its anti-human agenda, it is not entitled to the use of federal grant money.  

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The Trump administration stands with parents to protect children from content that contradicts commonsense biology and refuses to cosign California’s disturbing ideological experiment on children’s minds. Two months ago, we sent a letter to Governor Newsom demanding that he remove all references to gender ideology from PREP’s curricula. The letter warned that, should the government of California fail to comply within sixty days, the state would lose all PREP federal funding.  

On August 19, Newsom’s office replied to ACF with a letter stating that California "will not make any such modifications," alleging that California PREP’s materials are "medically accurate" and compliant with all relevant statutes. Neither claim is true, and the governor should know better. As promised, Newsom’s brazen refusal to comply with federal law has resulted in the termination of California’s PREP grant. 

This is just the first step. The Department of Health and Human Services will uphold its statutory duty to ensure the content being taught in all state PREP courses is medically accurate and age appropriate. After conducting a thorough review of PREP curricula nationwide, we will put all noncompliant states on notice: follow the law, or risk losing your grant money. Education about prevention of pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections must no longer function as a conduit for radical gender ideology. Under President Trump, California will not receive federal funding for its subversive and dangerous indoctrination campaign.