American flags will be flown at half-staff for the next 30 days to honor former President Jimmy Carter, including during Donald Trump's inauguration, but liberals are celebrating the coincidence as an attack on the president-elect.
Mr. Carter died Sunday at his home in Plains, Georgia, but under American flag regulations, the death of a sitting or former president requires the American flag to be flown at half-staff on “all federal buildings, grounds, and naval vessels” nationwide. It is shown by .
Trump is scheduled to be sworn in as the 47th president of the United States on January 20, which falls within the stipulated 30-day period of national mourning. This will be the first time that the American flag will be flown at half-staff at a presidential inauguration.
The Flag Act is not a federal law, so President Trump could theoretically order the flag to be flown on his inauguration. The president-elect's press secretary did not respond to a Post email on Monday asking whether there was any discussion within the Trump campaign about ordering the flag to be raised for the event.
Then-President Richard Nixon ordered the flag to be lowered to honor his predecessor, Lyndon B. Johnson, who died days after Nixon's second inauguration in 1973. The national flag was temporarily raised to honor the first returnees. Vietnam War POW.
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paid for by the Democratic Party “Brooklyn Dad Defiant,” whose real name is Majid Paderan, wrote on Monday that he was “pleased to learn that the flag will have to be flown with half the staff at Felon 47's unholy inauguration.” Carter is a hero, even on his way out. ”
Another X user called flags being flown at half-staff during the inauguration “a kind of prophetic justice.”
A third commenter said this was a “huge middle finger to Trump” and “the last one” from Carter, who famously said he wanted to live long enough to vote for Trump's nemesis, Veep Kamala Harris. F, to you.''
Carter, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, will be given a full-fledged state funeral in Washington, D.C., on January 9, and will be buried next to his late wife, Rosalyn, in Plains.
House Speaker Mike Johnson's office said Monday evening that he will lie in public in the Capitol Rotunda from Jan. 7 to Jan. 9 and that he will remain in the facility at designated times for the public to pay their respects. announced that it would be opened.
