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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] -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.