When former U.S. president Donald Trump used an inverted red triangle in campaign ads on Facebook in 2020, it was immediately recognized as a symbol used by the Nazis to designate political ...

Inverted crosses visible as Pope Francis lay in state symbolise Saint Peter, the first pontiff, and are not a reference to satanism.

The symbol, traditionally used by seafarers as a distress call, has been wielded as a bipartisan protest. But its most visible recent uses have taken a hard right political shift.

Hamas militants have used an inverted red triangle to mark military targets. Pro-Palestinian protesters have also used it to vandalize homes.

Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene and country music singer Jason Aldean were among the prominent Americans to display the inverted flag, a symbol of distress or protest in America ...

This Flag Day I called up experts to discuss what an upside-down flag means wand why the Trump-supporting right is using it. It's a potent nationalist symbol.

An inverted American flag, which was displayed at Yosemite National Park in February 2025, is a historic symbol of dire distress.

Homer Township supervisor Steve Balich ordered the U.S. flag flown upside down outside the township offices as a symbol of national “distress” following ex-President Donald Trump’s conviction… ...

The inverted flag, flown outside Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s home in 2021, has become a rallying symbol of the “Stop the Steal” movement.

Depending on how it's used or who you ask, the inverted red triangle is a target, a symbol of resistance, a piece of history, or propaganda. As experts in the Israel-Palestinian conflict point out ...

It has been a widely recognized symbol of distress since the nation’s founding, when sailors turned the American flag upside down to signal that their ships were sinking, on fire or trapped in ...

The symbol has gained traction on the right since the revelation that an upside down flag flew outside the home of Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. in 2021.