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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:

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[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 151 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] cranakis@reddthat.com 65 points 2 months ago

I hope Carter's ghost brings bitter, freezing rain that lasts the whole of inauguration day.

[-] justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io 22 points 2 months ago

Blizzard and forces the whole thing to be cancelled.

[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago

Or... don't cancel it and Trump dies of hypothermia.

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 16 points 2 months ago

He would just skip it and let his supporters get hypothermia. Again.

[-] rayyy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Trump dies of hypothermia

Bird flu.

[-] eran_morad@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

kung flu would be perfect.

[-] DrFistington@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

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

[-] LGTM@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago

Praying the spirit of William Harrison occupies him today 😔

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

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?)

[-] qisope@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago

"In celebration, all flag poles will be doubled in height!"

[-] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 8 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

The president can just comment "Trump died today and that's all I'm gonna say about that" and move on, no questions taken.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Maybe while pulling one of those confetti party poppers.

[-] FlowVoid@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Fireworks, parades, and a new national holiday.

[-] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] Chozo@fedia.io 23 points 2 months ago

Dumbass Trump doesn't like it because it's not about him.

I can't wait for the flags to be half staff because of him.

[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Half staff is all he can reach anyway, even with assistance

[-] DrFistington@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I'll got fireworks ready and a flag set to go full mast

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 months ago

Dumbass Trump doesn't like it because it's not about him.

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.

[-] DrFistington@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] TommySoda@lemmy.world 41 points 2 months ago

What a little bitch baby. It's like a kid that goes to a birthday party and throws a temper tantrum because everyone is paying attention to the other kid.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 33 points 2 months ago

"It's not like anyone liked Jimmy Carter anyway," muttered Trump, as he walked home, his head lowered and kicking a can down the road.

[-] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 21 points 2 months ago

Of course, Carter aside, I’d certainly say Trump taking office again is half-mast worthy, being a national tragedy.

[-] Zier@fedia.io 11 points 2 months ago

So dumpty trumpty will just override that at the White House and all this is, is a bunch of bitching about Biden. What a whiny little fuck. Streisand Effect: Since it pisses him off, we as citizens can fly our own flags at half mast and he can't do a damn thing about it. Don't turn them upside down though because the maga nazis do that to support the orange cancer.

[-] fox2263@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

He could make a big show of it. Pretend to honour carter and the institution etc

But no, just like Covid, he prefers an own goal

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

“I’m the only thing that matters.” -Trump

[-] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

If Trump wasn't an egotistical shithead he would use this to his advantage.

[-] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 6 points 2 months ago

Because sense and decorum are dead

[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

why are they not at half mast for the terrorist attack that just happened in New Orleans?

Carter is a war criminal. Those people in NO were innocent.

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