Youngkin orders flags to be flown at Trump’s inauguration amid mourning for Jimmy Carter’s death.

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, ordered the flags to fly temporarily at full staff for the President-elect Donald Trump’s ordination on Monday.

“Therefore I order that the flags of the United States of America and the Commonwealth of Virginia must fly at full mast on all state and local buildings and grounds of the Commonwealth in honor of the inauguration of the 47th President of the United States.” ,” Youngkin said Saturday.

Youngkin’s order comes despite President Biden’s order after the meeting The death of former President Jimmy Carter on December 29 that flags in all government buildings and public places and stadiums across the country should fly half-staff for the 30-day mourning period, which just happens to include Inauguration Day.

It is customary when the former president dies to order a 30-day period of mourning and to order flags to be flown at half-staff.

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Biden said the American flag “should be flown at half-staff in the White House and in all public buildings and grounds, on all military bases and military stations, and on all ships of the Federal Government in the District of Columbia and in all waters.” The United States and its Territories and Possessions.”

Virginia flags will return to staff to honor Carter on Tuesday following the president’s inauguration, Youngkin said.

“Flags will be lowered back to half-staff the following day to continue honoring former President James Earl Carter, Jr. and remain at half-staff until January 28, 2025,” the governor wrote.

Youngkin joins several Republican governors who have also broken with tradition and ordered flags to be flown on Monday, including Idaho Gov. Brad Little, North Dakota Gov. Kelly Armstrong, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds and Texas Governor Greg Abbott.

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Former President Jimmy Carter. (Photo by Emma Woodhead/Fox Digital)

Three Democratic Governors – California Gov. Gavin NewsomColorado Gov. Jared Polis and Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson — have also ordered flags to fly at full-mast for Trump’s inauguration before the end of the mourning period on Jan. 28.

House Speaker Mike Johnson also ordered flags at the US Capitol to fly at full staff on Inauguration Day.

Trump has criticized the idea of ​​flags being flown at half-staff for his inauguration following Carter’s death.

“Democrats are ‘full of bitterness’ about our beautiful American flag possibly being ‘half-staffed’ at my inauguration,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Jan. 3. “They think it’s great, and they’re happy about it because, really, they don’t love our Country, they only care about themselves.”

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin speaks during the Faith & Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority Policy Conference at the Washington Hilton on June 22, 2024, in Washington, DC. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

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“Look what they’ve done to our once GREAT America in the last four years – It’s a complete mess! In any case, because of the death of President Jimmy Carter, the Flag may, for the first time during the inauguration of a future President, be at an end,” he continued. “Nobody wants to see this, and nobody an American would be happy about it. Let’s see how it plays out. DO AMERICA AGAIN!”

The flags were flown among the staff when former President Nixon was sworn in for his second term in 1973 after Nixon ordered the flags lowered following the death of former President Truman.