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Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson, a Democrat, has ordered all staff to fly flags for the president-elect on Monday Donald Trump’s inauguration
“I hereby direct that the Washington State and United States flags at all state agency facilities be flown to all personnel on Monday, January 20, 2025, in honor of inauguration,” Ferguson said.
This, despite the official order of President Biden after the death of former President Jimmy Carter on December 29, flags on all public and government buildings and grounds across the country fly at half-mast for a 30-day period of mourning, which only includes Inauguration Day.
It is tradition when a former president dies to order a 30-day mourning period and order flags to be flown at half-mast.
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Governor-elect Bob Ferguson delivers his victory speech at the Washington State Democrats’ Election Night Party at the Seattle Convention Center on November 5, 2024 in Seattle, Washington. (Getty Images)
Biden said the U.S. flag “must be displayed at half-mast at the White House and on all public buildings and grounds, at all military posts and naval stations, and on all naval vessels of the federal government in the district of Columbia and throughout the territory. United States and its territories and possessions.”
Flags will return to half-staff in Washington state on Tuesday to continue the period of mourning for Carter.
“Flags should return to half-mast at sunrise on Tuesday, January 21, 2025, and should remain at half-mast until the close of business or sunset on Wednesday, January 29, 2025, as continuation of honoring former President Jimmy Carter for 30 years. days after his death,” Ferguson said.
Former President Jimmy Carter. (Photo via Emma Woodhead/Fox Digital)
Ferguson joins California Governor Gavin Newsom and Colorado Gov. Jared Polis as Democrats who have broken with tradition and ordered flags to be flown for Trump’s inauguration before the mourning period ends on Jan. 28.
They follow orders from Democratic governors several republicans who have ordered flags to be flown at half-mast on Monday, including Idaho Gov. Brad Little, North Dakota Gov. Kelly Armstrong, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, the Governor of Tennessee, Bill Lee, Governor of Iowa, Kim Reynolds and Governor of Texas. Greg Abbott.
House Speaker Mike Johnson also ordered that US Capitol flags be flown at all staff on Inauguration Day.
Trump has criticized the possibility of flags being flown at half-mast for his inauguration after Carter’s death.
Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump arrives at an election night watch party at the Palm Beach Convention Center, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, in West Palm Beach, Florida. (Evan Vucci/AP)
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“Democrats are all ‘giddy’ because our magnificent American flag could be at ‘half-mast’ during my inauguration,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on January 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 over the last four years – it’s a complete 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!”
The flags were flown at half-staff when former President Nixon was sworn in for his second term in 1973 after Nixon ordered the flags lowered following the death of former President Truman.
