{"id":2390159,"date":"2025-01-14T12:40:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T17:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-johnson-orders-flags-at-full-staff-for-trump-inauguration-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-01-14T12:40:58","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T17:40:58","slug":"mike-johnson-orders-flags-at-full-staff-for-trump-inauguration-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-johnson-orders-flags-at-full-staff-for-trump-inauguration-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Johnson orders flags at full-staff for Trump inauguration &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmike-johnson-orders-flags-at-full-staff-for-trump-inauguration-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2390159&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">provided text appears<\/a> to be a snippet of HTML code including\u2064 XML declarations and the markup for a webpage. It contains a \u2064&#8221;Read more&#8230;&#8221; button and some user interface elements related to a mobile menu and search feature. The main content mentions that Mike Johnson \u2063has ordered flags to be flown at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/border-patrol-must-be-fully-vaxxed-by-november-or-lose-their-jobs-whistleblower-claims\/\" title=\"Border Patrol Must Be Fully Vaxxed By November Or Lose Their Jobs, Whistleblower Claims\">full staff<\/a>, indicating an official directive concerning flag protocol. 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That issue applies to all U.S. flags at the White House as well as all public buildings and grounds, military posts, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-flags-lowered-to-half-staff-to-honor-service-member-and-other-victim-deaths-in-afghanistan\/\" title=\"U.S. flags lowered to half-staff to honor service member and other victim deaths in Afghanistan\">naval stations<\/a> as well as on federal naval vessels throughout the United States and its territories.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That order is in accordance with the <a href=\"https:\/\/uscode.house.gov\/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title4-section7&amp;num=0&amp;edition=prelim#:~:text=(a)%20The%20President%20or%20a,and%20naval%20vessels%20and%20stations.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">U.S. Flag Code of Conduct<\/a>, which says flags are to be displayed at half-staff for &ldquo;30 days from the death of the President or a former President.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>However, some states have already broken with that code, with Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) ordering Monday to raise the flags on Inauguration Day despite the White House order.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;While we honor the service of a former President, we must also celebrate the service of an incoming President and the bright future ahead for the United States of America,&rdquo; Abbott said in a statement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Flags at Trump&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3285684\/trump-defies-biden-desantis-raises-flags-mar-a-lago\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Mar-a-Lago resort<\/a> have also returned flags to full-staff despite briefly flying them at half-staff following the White House order. The <em>Washington Examiner <\/em>reached out to Trump&rsquo;s team for comment on that decision.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1935030\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1935030\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Johnson orders flags at full-staff for Trump\u2019s inauguration, overriding Biden&#8217;s half-staff directive for Jimmy Carter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2640,"featured_media":2390160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Trump-flags-inauguration.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7742,48495,34218],"class_list":["post-2390159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-flags","tag-full-staff","tag-mike-johnson"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Trump-flags-inauguration.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2640"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2390159"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2390163,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390159\/revisions\/2390163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2390160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2390159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2390159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2390159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}