Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, ordered flags to quickly fly at full-staff for President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday.
“I hereby order that the flags of the United States of America and the Commonwealth of Virginia are to be flown at full-staff on all state and native buildings and grounds within the Commonwealth in recognition of the inauguration of the forty seventh President of the United States,” Youngkin mentioned on Saturday.
Youngkin’s directive comes regardless of President Biden’s order after the death of former President Jimmy Carter on Dec. 29 that flags in any respect authorities and public buildings and grounds throughout the nation ought to fly at half-staff for a 30-day mourning interval, which simply occurs to incorporate Inauguration Day.
It is a convention when a former president dies to order a 30-day mourning interval and order flags to be displayed at half-staff.
Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin speaks as President-elect Donald Trump, listens throughout a marketing campaign rally on the Salem Civic Center on November 2, 2024, in Salem, Virginia. (Getty Images)
Biden mentioned the U.S. flag “ought to be displayed at half-staff on the White House and on all public buildings and grounds, in any respect navy posts and naval stations, and on all naval vessels of the Federal Government within the District of Columbia and all through the United States and its Territories and possessions.”
Flags in Virginia will return to half-staff to honor Carter on Tuesday following the presidential inauguration, Youngkin mentioned.
“The flags will likely be lowered again to half-staff the next day to proceed honoring former President James Earl Carter, Jr. and stay at half workers by way of January 28, 2025,” the governor wrote.
Youngkin joins a number of Republican governors who’ve additionally damaged custom and ordered flags to be raised on Monday, together with Idaho Gov. Brad Little, North Dakota Gov. Kelly Armstrong, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.
Former President Jimmy Carter. (Photo through Emma Woodhead/Fox Digital)
A trio of Democratic governors — California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis and Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson — have additionally ordered flags to fly at full-staff for Trump’s inauguration earlier than the mourning interval ends Jan. 28.
House Speaker Mike Johnson additionally ordered flags on the U.S. Capitol to be flown at full-staff on Inauguration Day.
Trump has criticized the concept of flags being displayed at half-staff for his inauguration following Carter’s dying.
“The Democrats are all ‘giddy’ about our magnificent American Flag probably being at ‘half mast’ throughout my Inauguration,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Jan. 3. “They assume it’s so nice, and are so pleased about it as a result of, actually, they do not love our Country, they solely take into consideration themselves.”
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin speaks in the course of the Faith & Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority Policy Conference on the Washington Hilton on June 22, 2024, in Washington, D.C. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)
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“Look at what they’ve finished to our as soon as GREAT America over the previous 4 years – It’s a complete mess! In any occasion, due to the dying of President Jimmy Carter, the Flag could, for the primary time ever throughout an Inauguration of a future President, be at half mast,” he continued. “Nobody needs to see this, and no American may be pleased about it. Let’s see the way it performs out. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
Flags had been flown at half-staff when former President Nixon was sworn-in for his second time period in 1973 after Nixon ordered the flags to be lowered following the dying of former President Truman.
