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'Nobody wants to see this!' Trump vents fury over flags being half-staff for inauguration (www.rawstory.com)

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 93 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

In any event, because of the death of President Jimmy Carter, the Flag may, for the first time ever during an Inauguration of a future President, be at half mast," he continued. "Nobody wants to see this, and no American can be happy about it.

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

[–] [email protected] 58 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 weeks ago

A more competent sort of villain.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Nixon also literally created the EPA.

I can't imagine Trump creating anything that has any positive impact at all.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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".

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

In America.

Edit: it looks like it's time to school some Americans on English, a particularly easy task.

Let's start with the definition from the Merriam-Webster dictionary, descendant of arguably the definitive American dictionary, certainly one of the first, created by Noah Webster.

A slender vertical or nearly vertical structure (such as an upright post in various cranes).

Now, from the American Heritage dictionary.

A vertical pole.

Going farther field, from the Cambridge dictionary.

A pole that holds a flag.

Note that both the Merriam-Webster and Cambridge dictionaries list half-mast as related phrases.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

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.