U.S. Flags Will Fly at Half-Staff for Jimmy Carter During Donald Trump’s Inauguration

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  3. Carter you angel you. You are getting the last word. We will be in mourning. Missing your commitment to helping others and doing the right thing will be a hard act to follow.

  4. Flag at half mast is also used to signify that the country is in distress.

    So very, very accurate!

  5. He will find a way to make it about himself or cry like a baby about it.

    Edit: Probably both

  8. Hold for president-elect’s inevitable, embarrassing, disgusting tweet that will mention President Carter’s passing amongst the rambling

  11. RIP you dear sweet man.

    I just have this weird feeling though that we will see Trump die before inauguration. I don’t know why, I just do. That isn’t just hopium from me. I have had this weird gut feeling all year that Trump won’t make it to Inauguration Day and that he’ll die before he ever gets sworn in.

  13. They will also fly at half-staff during Donald Trump’s inauguration, so one quarter staff.

  14. That outta piss the old orange sack of shit off really good.

  15. The GOP needs to shut up and not spread their usual crap. Pay respect for a President. Simple.

  16. I couldn’t imagine anything sadder than this. Thanks Carter for everything you did and I’m sorry we don’t have the strength to do a Forensic Audit

  17. The funeral mass should prove interesting, I assume all the ex-presidents will attend

  18. The flag should be flown upside down during Trump’s inauguration.

  19. I will be mourning both deaths. Carter’s and Democracy

  20. The pictures of Trump getting sworn in while flags fly at half mast will go down in history books, I’m sure

  22. Trump will delivering an insult to Carter in 3, 2, 1…

  23. Trumps ego won’t like that, taking away from “his day”

  25. The irony of the death of Jimmy Carter forcing flags to been flown at half-staff during the inauguration of a fascist dictatorship.

  26. Trump is absolutely going to talk shit about this during his inauguration speech.

  29. The rage tweeting will REALLY go off when someone points out attendance at Carter’s wake is greater than Trump’s inauguration.

  30. The only good thing about Carter passing now, is that Trump and his overflowing clown car won’t be allowed to bungle a well deserved tribute to a man Trump could never be on his best day.

  31. I am really, really, really glad that Biden will preside over the honors and state funeral of that great human being. It horrified me that Trump may have been in office when Jimmy Carter passed away.

  32. Jimmy died at this time as one final middle finger to Trump.

  36. It seems appropriate to mourn the loss of decency at this time.

  37. US Flags being flown at half-staff during Trump’s inauguration is just pure poetry

  38. …and when it’s your turn to die you’ll remember…. 

    They fired those cannons,  

    Sang lamentations,  

    Not just for Carter,

    For America.  

    Not just for Carter,  

    For everybody.

  39. I’ll believe it when I see it. If Trump finds out he’s going to feel upstaged.

  41. Great double meaning. Mourning Carter and the loss of democracy in one fell swoop.

  42. Interesting that a nation is honoring a beautiful human being (Carter) while inaugurating a narcissistic sociopath.

  43. Jimmy Carter and Donald Trump seem about as opposite as two men can possibly get.

  44. RIP. Carter governed with ethics and was an upstanding man.

    I bet Trump cries afoul when flags are at half staff on Inauguration Day.

  46. I have this nasty hunch that they’re not going to lower the flag.

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