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.
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.
Blizzard and forces the whole thing to be cancelled.
Or… don’t cancel it and Trump dies of hypothermia.
Praying the spirit of William Harrison occupies him today 😔