U.S. President-elect Donald Trump complained that the flag will be raised at his inauguration on the 20th.
Earlier, after former President Jimmy Carter died on the 29th of last month, U.S. President Joe Biden ordered the White House and all government offices to raise flags for 30 days from that day in memory.
In a post on his social media account, Trump claimed that Democrats were all happy to fly the American flag early at my inauguration.
In addition, for the first time ever, he wrote that no one wants to see it, saying that the flag looked like it was raised early at the presidential inauguration.
However, contrary to Trump's claims, the Associated Press pointed out that there is a precedent that the flag was raised when the president took office.
According to the AP, President Richard Nixon ordered the early hoisting of former President Harry Truman at the start of his second term in January 1973.
According to U.S. flag regulations, the flag of the country is supposed to fly the flag for 30 days upon the death of the former president, but it is not mandatory.
In other words, the AP explained that Trump could theoretically stop raising the flag early after he took office.
In February 1973, President Nixon ordered the early hoisting of former President Lyndon Johnson for 30 days, but ordered the suspension of the early raising of the flag on the same day to commemorate the first release of U.S. POWs in the Vietnam War.
The next day, the American flag returned to the early stage and remained in place for eight days, the AP added.
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