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California’s Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom will temporarily fly the American flag at the state Capitol at full height on Inauguration Day next week, joining a handful of Republican governors and Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson in the decision.
Newsom’s press office confirmed the decision to Fox News Digital on Wednesday night.
Following tradition, flags at the U.S. Capitol and state buildings across the country are flying at half-staff in honor of the death of former President Jimmy Carter on December 29, 2024.
Flags temporarily flown at full height will return to half-staff on Jan. 21 for the remainder of the 30-day mourning period, which ends Jan. 28, eight days after President-elect Donald Trump takes office .
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has ordered flags at the state Capitol to be temporarily flown at full staff on Jan. 20 for President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration. (Getty/AP)
As of Thursday morning, Newsom is the only Democratic governor to have issued the directive, which comes as Southern California is devastated by catastrophic forest fires.
Recently, Idaho Governor Brad Little, North Dakota Governor Kelly Armstrong, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott made similar decisions recently. of which they are republicans.
House Speaker Johnson also ordered US Capitol flags flown at full staff Trump’s inauguration on January 20.
Trump has criticized the possibility of flags being flown at half-mast its inauguration after Carter’s death.
Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson also ordered the US Capitol flag temporarily flown at all staff for Trump’s inauguration. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
“Democrats are all ‘giddy’ over our magnificent American flag potentially being at ‘half-mast’ during my inauguration,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Jan. 3. “They think it’s so great and they’re so happy about it because they don’t really love our country, they just think about themselves.”
“Look at what they have done to our once GREAT America in the last four years – it is a total disaster! In any case, due to the death of President Jimmy Carter, the Flag can, for the first time, for a inauguration of a future president, stand at half-mast,” he continued. “Nobody wants to see this, and no American can be happy about it. Let’s see how it plays out. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
President-elect Trump has criticized the possibility of the flag flying at half-staff during his inauguration on January 20 despite it falling during the 30-day mourning period following the death of former President Jimmy Carter. (Donald Trump/Truth Social)
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Flags were flown at half-staff when former President Nixon was sworn in for a second term in 1973 after Nixon ordered flags lowered after the death of former President Truman.
Fox News Digital’s Landon Mion contributed to this report.
