President-elect Donald Trump called out Democrats on Friday, saying that they are “giddy” about the American flag being flown at half-staff on Inauguration Day due to President Jimmy Carter’s death.
A proclamation signed in 1954 calls for flags to be flown at half-mast for 30 days after the death of a sitting or former president. Carter died at his home in Georgia on December 29, meaning flags won’t be raised to full-staff until sunset on January 28, more than a week after Trump is sworn into office.
“The Democrats are all ‘giddy’ about our magnificent American Flag potentially being at ‘half mast’ during my Inauguration,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “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…
