President-elect Donald Trump went on a social media rant Friday over American flags being flown at half-staff throughout his inauguration, each complaining concerning the scenario and blasting his opponents for laughing about it.
“The Democrats are all ‘giddy’ about our magnificent American Flag potentially being at ‘half mast’ during my Inauguration,” Trump wrote. “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.”
He continued: “Nobody wants to see this, and no American can be happy about it.”
In recognition of the lifetime of late Democratic President Jimmy Carter, who died earlier this week at age 100, President Joe Biden issued a proclamation ordering U.S. flags to be flown at half-staff on the White Home and different authorities places “for a period of 30 days from the day of his death.” The proclamation is consistent with a coverage from the US Division of Veteran Affairs.
Which means flags might be flown at half-staff via Jan. 28 ― greater than every week after Trump’s scheduled inauguration on the U.S. Capitol. The coincidence has fueled social media fodder in current days, with jokes about Carter leaving “one last gift” for Trump and the half-staff flags signifying not simply the demise of Carter, but in addition the demise of democracy.
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Trump additionally instructed a number of instances all through his submit that the half-staff flags throughout his inauguration had been solely a chance. “Let’s see how it plays out,” he wrote.
He additionally wrongly asserted Friday that the flags could be flown at half-staff “for the first time ever during an Inauguration of a future President.” In 1972, President Richard Nixon took the oath of workplace whereas flags had been flown at half-staff in memoriam of President Harry Truman.
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Trump, a famously image-focused president, has misplaced his cool earlier than when occasions didn’t go his means. At a rally days earlier than November’s election, he fumed over technical points together with his mic.
“You’ve got to be kidding. Do you want to see me knock the hell out of people backstage?” he stated, including later: “I get so angry. I’m up here seething. I’m seething. I’m working my ass off with this stupid mic. I’m blowing out my left arm. Now I’m going to blow out my right arm and I’m blowing out my damn throat, too, because these stupid people.”
He’s additionally gotten labored up a few malfunctioning teleprompter, not trying “slim” in photographs, having to stroll down stairs at his occasions and jurors not smiling at him throughout his hush cash trial.
