Former President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at age 100, seems to have left a hard-to-escape reminder of his legacy for Donald Trump to see because the president-elect takes the oath of workplace subsequent month.
Following Carter’s demise, President Joe Biden issued a proclamation that referred to as for the U.S. flag to be displayed at half-staff on the White Home, on public buildings and grounds, at navy posts in addition to naval stations and vessels “for a interval of 30 days from the day of his demise.”
That is in keeping with the United States Department of Veteran Affairs, which states that the flag needs to be displayed for such a interval after a former president’s demise at “all federal buildings, grounds, and naval vessels” all through the nation and its territories.
The flags are set to be flown at half-staff till sundown on Jan. 28 — greater than every week after Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, which occurs to fall on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
The uncommon, seemingly situation grew to become the speak of social media customers who referred to as it Carter’s “one final present” for Trump, who offered a tribute to the former president in a social media submit on Sunday.
Carter was notably a critic of the president-elect and as soon as described him as “a disaster.”
This isn’t the primary time {that a} presidential inauguration occurred as flags flew at half-staff to honor a former president.
Then-President Richard Nixon — after the demise of Harry S. Truman on Dec. 26, 1972 — took the oath of workplace for a second time period on Jan. 20, 1973, because the D.C. sky was “heavy with grey clouds” whereas flags flew at half-staff and the sounds of a protest might be heard faintly within the distance, Time magazine reported.
Nixon’s predecessor, former President Lyndon B. Johnson, would go on to die of a coronary heart assault simply two days later, which caused Nixon to call for flags to fly at half-staff for one more 30 days.
