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'Nobody wants to see this!' Trump vents fury over flags being half-staff for inauguration (www.rawstory.com)

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President-elect Donald Trump took to his Truth Social platform on Friday to complain that the American flag will be flown at half-staff for his inauguration due to the period of mourning for the recently deceased former President Jimmy Carter.

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[-] [email protected] 95 points 5 months ago

In any event, because of the death of President Jimmy Carter, the Flag may, for the first time ever during an Inauguration of a future President, be at half mast," he continued. "Nobody wants to see this, and no American can be happy about it.

So, as usual, wrong about basically everything- It will be the second time: it was already flown at half mast during Nixon's 1973 inauguration due to Harry Truman's death in Dec., 1972

[-] [email protected] 61 points 5 months ago

And Nixion didn't have a public tantrum about it because Nixon had more class and was a better person than Trump.

And I don't mean that in a good way.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago

A more competent sort of villain.

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