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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, has ordered flags at state buildings to be raised to full-staff for President-elect Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20.
This comes regardless of the official order by President Biden after the demise of former President Jimmy Carter on Dec. 29 that flags in any respect authorities and public buildings and grounds throughout the nation fly at half-staff for a 30-day mourning interval, which simply occurs to incorporate Inauguration Day.
It’s a custom when a former president dies to order a 30-day mourning interval and order flags at half-staff.
Biden stated the U.S. flag “should be displayed at half-staff at the White House and on all public buildings and grounds, at all military posts and naval stations, and on all naval vessels of the Federal Government in the District of Columbia and throughout the United States and its Territories and possessions.”
ABBOTT ORDERS FLAGS AT FULL-STAFF FOR TRUMP’S INAUGURATION DESPITE ONE MONTH ORDER TO HONOR CARTER
Donald Trump greets Ron DeSantis throughout a marketing campaign rally on the Hertz Enviornment on October 31, 2018 in Estero, Florida. (Getty Photographs)
Governors throughout the nation issued their very own orders concerning the best way to fly flags of their respective states on Inauguration Day.
DeSantis joins different Republican governors who will break custom and fly flags at full-staff earlier than the mourning interval ends Jan. 28. He ordered that every one flags on the Florida Capitol and throughout all state buildings, installations and grounds to be raised to full top on Jan. 20.
“On this unique occasion, where we simultaneously celebrate the service of an incoming president and commend the service of a former president, our nation’s flag will be prominently displayed at full-staff to honor the tradition of our founding fathers and the sacrifices made by those who have served to ensure the torch of liberty continues to bum strong,” DeSantis stated in his order.
“The following day, on Tuesday, January 21, 2025, all flags at state buildings, installations, and grounds across the State of Florida will once again be lowered to half-staff to honor President Carter’s service,” the governor stated.
Former President Jimmy Carter. (Photograph through Emma Woodhead/Fox Digital)
Home Speaker Mike Johnson additionally ordered flags on the U.S. Capitol to be flown at full-staff on Inauguration Day.
Trump has criticized the potential for flags to be displayed at half-staff for his inauguration following Carter’s demise.
“The Democrats are all ‘giddy’ about our magnificent American Flag potentially being at ‘half mast’ during my Inauguration,” Trump wrote on Reality Social on Jan. 3. “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.”
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks on the Republican Occasion of Iowa’s 2023 Lincoln Dinner on the Iowa Occasions Middle in Des Moines, Iowa, on July 28, 2023. ((Photograph by SERGIO FLORES/AFP through Getty Photographs))
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“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,” he continued. “Nobody wants to see this, and no American can be happy about it. Let’s see how it plays out. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
Flags have been flown at half-staff when former President Nixon was sworn-in for his second time period in 1973 after Nixon ordered the flags to be lowered following the demise of former President Truman.
