The Governor of Louisiana announces that the MAGA flag is flying at the Governor’s Mansion
Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry announced that the Make America Great Again (MAGA) flag will fly at the Governor’s Mansion as President-elect Trump takes the oath of office in the nation’s capital.
“BREAKING: Gov. Landry will raise the Make America Great Again flag at the Louisiana Governor’s Mansion on Jan. 20 in honor of Inauguration of President Donald J. Trump,‘, the governor wrote on social media on Friday.
The Republican governor urged others to join in flying the Trump flag on Monday’s inauguration day.
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry speaks at a New Year’s Day press conference following the terrorist attack on Bourbon St.. Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025. (SCOTT CLAUSE/USA TODAY Network / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)
This comes after the re-election Speaker Mike Johnson announced that American flags will fly in full force, despite an order by President Biden to fly flags at half-staff in memory of the late President Jimmy Carter.
“On January 20th, flags at the Capitol will fly at full staff to celebrate the unification of our country behind the inauguration of our 47th President, Donald Trump,” Johnson wrote in an X post.
A man holds a “Make America Great Again” banner during the third day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on July 17, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
“Flags will be flown at half-mast the next day to continue the tributes President Jimmy Carter“, he said.
As is tradition after the president’s death, Biden ordered that flags on federal properties be flown at half-staff for 30 days, which would coincide with the inauguration of the president-elect.
The American flag flies at half-staff to mark the 23rd anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, in front of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, September 11, 2024. (Allison Robbert/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Trump took to social media to follow Biden’s order, writing that Democrats are “giddy” that flags will be flown at half-staff during his swearing-in ceremony.
“Democrats are all ‘giddy’ that our glorious American flag could be ‘half-mast’ during my inauguration,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “They think it’s so great and they’re very happy about it because they don’t really love our country, they only think about themselves.
“In any case, with the death of President Jimmy Carter, the flag may, for the first time ever during the inauguration of a future president, be flown at half-staff. No one wants to see that, and no American can be happy to see how play.”
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Flags were flown at half-staff when former President Nixon was sworn in for his second term in 1973 after Nixon ordered the flags to be lowered after the death of former President Truman.
Fox News Digital has reached out to Governor Landry’s office for comment.
