President-elect Donald Trump Friday reacted to Joe Biden‘s order that flags will be lowered to half staff for 30 days in honor of former president Jimmy Carter who died at 100, and said only Democrats are giddy about this as this one-month mourning period would cover Donald Trump’s inauguration.
Trump said Democrats are happy about it as they don’t love the country. Otherwise, nobody wants to see the flag in half-mast during the inauguration of a president.
The Democrats are all “giddy” about our magnificent American Flag potentially being at “half mast” during my Inauguration. They think it’s so great, and are so happy about it because, in actuality, they don’t love our Country, they only think about themselves. Look at what they’ve done to our once GREAT America over the past four years – It’s a total mess! In any event, because of the death of President Jimmy Carter, the Flag may, for the first time ever during an Inauguration of a future President, be at half mast. Nobody wants to see this, and no American can be happy about it. Let’s see how it plays out. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
The US flag code requires flags to be flown at half-staff for 30 days from the death of a sitting or former president.
Donald Trump paid a warm tribute to Carter though he earlier mocked him. He said Carter “”faced as President came at a pivotal time for our country and he did everything in his power to improve the lives of all Americans. For that, we all owe him a debt of gratitude.”
However, Trump mocked Carter on his 100th birthday in October while taking a swipe at Biden. At the time, he called Biden the “worst” president in U.S. history and said that Carter “is the happiest man because Jimmy Carter is considered a brilliant president in comparison.”
Carter’s state funeral will be held on January 9.
Flags are to be flown at half-staff to honor Carter until Tuesday, January 28—meaning they will be lowered during Trump’s inauguration and through the first week of Trump’s second term.
But despite the rule for lowering flags to half-staff for 30 days after the death of a sitting or former president, Trump could order flags raised back to full-staff after taking office.
