Flags at the federal and state levels are being flown at half-staff to honor former President Jimmy Carter who died on Dec. 29, 2024.

Democrats on New York’s Long Island cried foul over the weekend after a Donald Trump-supporting county executive did not lower his jurisdiction’s flags to half-staff in honor of the late President Jimmy Carter,

President-elect Donald Trump is upset and complaining about the flags flying at half-staff to honor the late 39th President Jimmy Carter during his inauguration on January 20 in Washington, D.C. He fumed about the flags flying at half-mast “for the first time ever during an Inauguration of a future President.