Donald Trump criticizes the decision to lower American flags to half-staff for Jimmy Carter's passing during his January 20 inauguration.
President-elect Donald Trump has complained that American flags will still be lowered to half-staff in honour of the late president Jimmy Carter during Trump’s January 20 inauguration.Trump, who has announced plans to attend Carter’s memorial service in Washington on January 9, took issue in a Truth Social post on Friday (Saturday AEDT) that the flags would remain in the mourning position during his swearing-in ceremony.
The complaint came the day before Carter’s extended public farewell began on Saturday in Georgia. The 39th US president’s flag-draped coffin traced his long arc from the Depression-era South and family farming business to the pinnacle of US political power and decades as a global humanitarian. A military body bearer team carries the coffin of former President Jimmy Carter for the start of a six-day state funeral.Those chapters shone throughout the opening stanza of a six-day state funeral intended to blend personalised memorials with the ceremonial pomp afforded to former presidents.Trump said that due to Carter’s death last week, the American flag would “for the first time ever during an inauguration of a future president, be at half mast”. “The Democrats are all ‘giddy’ about our magnificent American Flag potentially being at ‘half mast’ during my inauguration,” Trump said, employing a term frequently used for the lowered position when the flag is on a ship.“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,” Trump said.White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre said the White House had no plans to reconsider the decision. Pallbearers on Saturday came from the Secret Service that protected the Carters for almost 50 years and a military honour guard that included navy service members for the only US Naval Academy graduate to reach the Oval Offic
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