Posted on 01/14/2025 1:15:56 AM PST by fluorescence
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — U.S. flags at President-elect Donald Trump ‘s private Mar-a-Lago club are back to flying at full height.
Flags are supposed to fly at half-staff through the end of January out of respect for former President Jimmy Carter, who died on Dec. 29. A large flag on Trump’s property in Palm Beach was initially lowered to half-staff according to protocol but has since been raised in the days after Carter was buried Thursday in his hometown of Plains, Georgia.
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Really, really pleased about this. Smart move. Now LOTS of flags are going to go full staff.
Mar-a-Largo is not a government building.
Maybe government flags are supposed to fly at half-staff, but does that really apply to private individuals?
No, it does not apply to citizens.
Unless the US Flag Code mandates this 30-day period, I don’t see the problem.
Comments on another post said 30 days is for a sitting president that had died.
I want to see the Stars and Stripes waving from on high for Inauguration Day.
Pity that.
It is a glorious day in America when this issue is on the national agenda. Itiots!! Who is the editor that didn't take this drivel and but it in the digital waste bin.
Carter was a half ass president soit makes sense. Mine never goes half mast unless it’s warranted. Most of the reason they fly it half mast now are emotional reasons.
As a very wise man once said,
“Let the Dead Bury the Dead.”
Drove by yesterday, on the way home from Ft. Lauderdale, and was happy to see the flag flying high & proud!
“Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday ordered that flags at the state Capitol and other state government buildings be raised to full staff for President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration next week, despite a White House proclamation that U.S. flags fly at half-staff until late January to honor the late President Jimmy Carter.
“While we honor the service of a former President, we must also celebrate the service of an incoming President and the bright future ahead for the United States of America,” Abbott, a Republican and staunch Trump ally, said in a statement.”
Good!
The 30-days thing is gross and offensive. We don’t elevate our elected representatives to some level far above other Americans.
And what kind of AP story is this? Because the Carcass of Joe makes some sort of excessive proclamation, “Flags are supposed to” be flown at half-mast for 1/12th of a year? Was that done for Reagan? Poppy? There ain’t a law that Trump must fly his flag so—and good for him!
Didn’t Truman order the flag at full mast with 30 days of FDR’s death on April 12, 1945 due to the end of WWII?
Texas again has it right!
https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-orders-flags-to-full-staff-in-honor-of-inauguration-day
Texas again has it right!
https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-orders-flags-to-full-staff-in-honor-of-inauguration-day
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