{"id":18421,"date":"2025-01-13T21:30:33","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T21:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=18421"},"modified":"2025-01-13T21:30:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T21:30:33","slug":"texas-gov-greg-abbott-defies-federal-government-orders-flags-to-fly-at-full-staff-for-trump-inauguration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=18421","title":{"rendered":"Texas Gov. Greg Abbott defies federal government, orders flags to fly at full staff for Trump inauguration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott flouted federal orders Monday and announced that\u00a0flags\u00a0in the Lone Star State will be flown at full-staff for President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s inauguration next week.<\/p>\n<p>Abbott\u2019s declaration comes\u00a0two\u00a0weeks after\u00a0President Biden\u00a0ordered flags be flown at half-staff\u00a0for 30 days\u00a0to honor former President Jimmy Carter, who\u00a0died at the age of 100\u00a0on Dec. 29.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, I ordered flags raised to full-staff at the Texas Capitol &amp; state buildings for President Trump\u2019s inauguration,\u201d Abbott wrote on X. \u201cWhile we honor President Carter\u2019s service, we also celebrate an incoming President &amp; our bright future.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><button class=\"button button--modal-trigger\" aria-label=\"Open the image in a modal.\" data-modal-image=\"34452490\"><\/button><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-34452490\" 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Abbott.<span class=\"credit\">REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In a lengthier statement, Abbott argued that the US flag should be displayed \u201cespecially on\u2026 Inauguration Day, January 20.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s inauguration as the 47th president falls within the 30-day mourning period, which is due to end Jan. 28.<\/p>\n<p>It will be the first time American flags\u00a0across the nation\u00a0have flown at half-staff during a presidential inauguration.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, 78, could order the flags to be raised upon taking office at noon on Jan. 20.<\/p>\n<p>In a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/113765847370756395\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">post<\/a>\u00a0to his Truth Social on Jan. 3,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/12\/30\/us-news\/libs-giddy-over-us-flags-at-half-staff-to-mark-jimmy-carters-death-even-during-trump-inauguration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Trump called out Democrats and liberals for being \u201cgiddy\u201d<\/a>\u00a0about Biden\u2019s declaration<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey think it\u2019s so great, and are so happy about it because, in actuality, they don\u2019t love our Country, they only think about themselves. Look at what they\u2019ve done to our once GREAT America over the past four years\u00a0\u2014\u00a0It\u2019s a total mess!\u201d Trump wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 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,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody wants to see this, and no American can be happy about it. Let\u2019s see how it plays out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump and the other four living current and former presidents \u2014 Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Biden \u2014 gathered Thursday to honor Carter at a state funeral at Washington National Cathedral.<\/p>\n<p>Following the service, Carter\u2019s remains were returned to his hometown of Plains, Ga., where he was buried on the grounds of his longtime residence next to his late wife, Rosalynn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott flouted federal orders Monday and announced that\u00a0flags\u00a0in the Lone Star State will be flown at full-staff for President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s inauguration next week. &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18423,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18421\/revisions\/18423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}