President-elect Donald Trump has expressed frustration that flags will be flying at half-staff when he takes office later this month.
It’s an action put in place by President Joe Biden to honor the late President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at 100. It’s not a timeline that Trump can do anything about — until after he takes office.
Here’s what to know about why flags are lowered when a president dies, who can issue that order and how long the process lasts:
Because the tradition and protocol indicates that when a former president dies, flags are lowered to half staff.
Dumbass Trump doesn’t like it because it’s not about him.
I hope Carter’s ghost brings bitter, freezing rain that lasts the whole of inauguration day.
Blizzard and forces the whole thing to be cancelled.
Or… don’t cancel it and Trump dies of hypothermia.
He would just skip it and let his supporters get hypothermia. Again.
Bird flu.
kung flu would be perfect.
Id rather see him slip and fall, smash his head open on the ground then roll around in agony until he slowly dies.
That or buckshot/12ga slug to the face
Praying the spirit of William Harrison occupies him today 😔
I hope, when Trump finally carks it, whoever is president orders the opposite of half staff. Whatever that is.
(I’d say fly it upside down, except that’s a sign of distress. Maybe fly it on it’s long edge and backwards?)
“In celebration, all flag poles will be doubled in height!”
Flags shall be flown from a balloon tethered to the top of the flagpole.
Normally I’d be against the waste of helium but I’m prepared to make an exception.
The president can just comment “Trump died today and that’s all I’m gonna say about that” and move on, no questions taken.
Maybe while pulling one of those confetti party poppers.
Fireworks, parades, and a new national holiday.
I hope it’s a beautiful day. Clear blue skies. Mild temperatures. Lots of big expensive smiles on display. And then when it starts raining RPGs everyone gets mad at the weatherman for getting the forecast wrong and ruining an innocent stage packed with perfectly awful alleged humans.
I can’t wait for the flags to be half staff because of him.
Half staff is all he can reach anyway, even with assistance
I’ll got fireworks ready and a flag set to go full mast
And some of us will love to pretend that it IS about him, one last act of defiance by a dying democracy towards the people about to murder it.
Yeah. The rule is for people who respect our country and aren’t actively engaged in treason against it. Trump is incapable of comprehending it.