Posted on 08/28/2018 6:00:12 AM PDT by McGruff
Flags across the country were lowered this weekend to mark the death of Arizona Sen. John McCain on Saturday from brain cancer. Early Monday morning, however, flags at the White House had been returned to their usual position, prompting figurative gasps from Washington journalists and Trump critics.
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In fact, however, the White House’s decision to raise the flag on Monday morning was in exact accordance to the country’s official guidelines for flying the flag at half-staff. The nonbinding U.S. Flag Code, adopted in 1942, dictates that when a member of Congress dies, the flag should be lowered “on the day of death and the following day.” A similar proclamation about flag display made by President Dwight Eisenhower in 1954 and amended in 1969 to include members of Congress recommends the same duration. McCain died on Saturday, and the White House flag was lowered through the end of Sunday.
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Outrage makes headlines.
Facts, not so much.
LOL! Reporters do research and fact check? You're killing me!
Pres. Trump could walk on water and the lame street media and Democrats would criticize him because he got the bottoms of his feet wet.
Eff the American Legion, then.
Busy bodies.
My God, that slut on FNC, Sandra Smith, just won’t let it go. She’s worse than Shemp Smith when it comes to being a hardcore Trump hater. I’ll be she wears her P-hat and vagina costume to bed.
Yeah, that’s a clever post.
The false outrage on the left is just their way of directing their hate at Trump.
WHAT??? And miss a chance to hate Trump and us Deplorables?
Mebbe Trump thought he was an NFL player and decided to take a knee.
President Trump has ordered the flags of the country lowered to half staff until the end of the year, has cancelled the elections for 2018, has renamed that large body of water to the east of the country “The Mc Cain Ocean”, has recommended to Pope Francis that the beatification process be abandoned and to declare “Saint John McCain” on Sunday, has changed the motion picture academy’s awards to “The Johnny’s” and sent a bill to congress that the third week of August every year be a seven day holiday when all Americans can take the week to sit Shivah to our fallen martyr. The official announcement will be made at Arizona State University where the Fightin’ McCains will begin their football season Saturday.
Will that shut the left up??
They would say he couldn’t swim.
And then they'd attribute the phenomenon to Globull Warming.
Can you imagine the stories when chubby Meghan returns to the View in a few weeks? media will go into overdrive...
So sick of this so called ‘love fest’ time to get it over with...three funerals stops for old John. and not one video of him for over nine months, NOT one voice recording either, but suddenly a last and final statement letter from him...when he lay in a coma or on LIFE SUPPORT... smh
I'm betting you are not alone. Most millennials probably don't even know who is other than some old dude. Older swing voters probably went back to watching the Cooking Channel or something, not CNN.
So man wankers... So little time...
“All this for a damn flag?”
So are we keeping it at half staff forever now?
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