Washington Examiner (!) headline critical of Trump for flying flags at full staff in Carter mourning period

[ificandream]

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Headline: Trump defies Biden and DeSantis by raising flags at Mar-a-Lago

Link: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/3285684/trump-defies-biden-desantis-raises-flags-mar-a-lago/

For those looking for blatantly critical headlines, as someone who wrote headlines on a daily newspaper copy desk in the late '90s and early 2000s, it's really a matter of judgment (and desk chief preference) as to how a headline like this should be phrased. So it could have gone either way. But what's most interesting here is that it's the Washington Examiner, a longtime conservative news source. I don't recall ever seeing them being that critical of him (though I admit I don't pay that much attention to them, either).

Additionally, critical headlines are found on stories that are reviews of movies, TV and the like, and rarely on news stories.

Wonder how many readers will complain.

[Walleye]

1. Still, they phrase it as if it's a conflict between the men. Not an insult to the United States. Which it is..

[rasputin1952]

2. I've seen T****s mug emblazoned on the National Colors...

I'd like to wrap it around the owner and set it on fire.
Desecration.

The better part of me keeps me at bay.