US flags shall be at half-staff for the subsequent 30 days to honor former President Jimmy Carter, together with throughout Donald Trump’s inauguration, a coincidence liberals are celebrating as a shot on the president-elect.
Carter died Sunday at his residence in Plains, Ga., and underneath American flag code, the demise of a sitting or former president is marked by flying the Stars and Stripes at half-staff on “all federal buildings, grounds and naval vessels” nationwide.
Trump shall be sworn in because the forty seventh president Jan. 20, which is throughout the window of the prescribed 30-day nationwide mourning interval. It is going to be the primary time American flags have flown at half-staff throughout a presidential inauguration.
Since flag code shouldn’t be federal regulation, Trump may, in concept, order flags to be raised for his inauguration. A spokesperson for the president-elect didn’t reply to a Put up e-mail Monday inquiring whether or not there was any dialogue throughout the Trump camp of ordering flags raised for the event.
Then-President Richard Nixon ordered flags lowered to honor predecessor Lyndon B. Johnson, who handed away a number of days after Nixon’s second inauguration in 1973. However Nixon had them briefly raised to full-staff Feb. 13 of that yr to honor the primary returning Vietnam prisoners of battle.
Left-wingers on X are actually smugly noting the anticipated lowered flags for Trump’s inauguration day, savoring the unintended symbolism and imagining Trump — who supplied heartfelt condolences after the passing of Carter — raging over the optics.
Paid Democratic Social gathering shill “BrooklynDadDefiant” — whose actual identify is Majid Padellan — wrote Monday, “glad to know that flags should now be flown at half employees throughout Felon 47’s unholy inauguration. Carter is a hero, even on his manner out.”
One other X person known as the flags being flown at half-staff in the course of the inauguration “some sort of prophetic justice.”
A 3rd commenter mentioned it was “an enormous center finger to Trump” and “one final F you” from Carter, who famously mentioned he wished to dwell lengthy sufficient to vote for Trump’s foe, Veep Kamala Harris.
Carter, a Nobel Peace Prize recipient, will obtain a full state funeral in Washington, DC, on Jan. 9 earlier than he’s laid to relaxation in Plains beside his late spouse Rosalynn.
He’ll lie in state within the Capitol rotunda from Jan. 7-9, a set-up that shall be open throughout designated occasions for members of the general public to pay their respects, Home Speaker Mike Johnson’s workplace introduced Monday night.
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