A year later, he finally made it to Iraq for the first of two deployments there. He stepped off a C-17 Globemaster III the night he arrived to see the American flag flying on the airfield.
The American flag would "for the first time ever during an Inauguration of a future President, be at half mast," said Trump. "Nobody wants to see this, and no American can be happy about it.
On land, American flags are flown at half-staff ... Can proclamations be made for anyone else? The flag has been flown at half-staff upon the death of notable figures such as the Rev.
He made it clear that he would push for a change ... Carter’s funeral services, American flags at Trump’s private Florida club, Mar-a-Lago, were raised back to full height.