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.
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.
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
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.
A more competent sort of villain.
And “half-mast” is a term only used on ships (that is, things that have masts). On land, where we have flagstaffs (a.k.a. flagpoles), the correct term is “half-staff”.
In America.
This is an article about two presidents of the United States.
Yes, but the guy being quoted, for all his faults, has done more travelling than the average person, and clearly has picked up some phrases that are more common elsewhere. Not that that really matters, since referring to a flag pole as a mast is still considered acceptable by every dictionary I bothered to check, even the American ones (which I noted in the edit to my previous post).
Using a dictionary to prove two words are similar is not relevant here. The American terminology is half-staff not half-mast.
If you had done even some basic research on American flag ceremony and the terminology we use, you wouldn’t be so confidently incorrect on the subject.
Oh, the irony, it won’t be long before the flags are half mast for this very idiot.
He’s old, he’s senile, he’s obese and unhealthy, and he’s also in a very stressful position.