Former President Donald Trump is now a convicted felon, and in protest, his supporters are now sharing upside-down American flags all across X.
Trump was found guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records by a Manhattan jury Thursday, in his hush money trial.
Notable accounts sharing the inverted American flag include Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R‑GA), Fox News contributors Katie Pavlich and Guy Benson and conservative commentator Dan Bongino.
According to 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 claims has 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 Ja …