Trump orders flags to half-staff for coronavirus victims
Source: CBS NEWS
BY KATHRYN WATSON
MAY 21, 2020 / 8:22 PM / CBS NEWS
President Trump on Thursday announced he's ordering flags at all federal buildings and national monuments to fly at half-staff over the next three days in honor of the tens of thousands of Americans who have died from COVID-19.
Earlier Thursday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer wrote to the president asking him to lower the flags to half-staff when deaths surpass 100,000. The death toll is nearly at 95,000 as of Thursday night, per Johns Hopkins University.
"I will be lowering the flags on all Federal Buildings and National Monuments to half-staff over the next three days in memory of the Americans we have lost to the CoronaVirus ... On Monday, the flags will be at half-staff in honor of the men and women in our Military who have made the Ultimate Sacrifice for our Nation," the president tweeted.
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-orders-flags-to-half-staff-for-coronavirus-victims/
sprinkleeninow
(20,215 posts)Could have been, "Flags will be lowered..."
I, I, I
Me, Me, Me
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,523 posts)He's doing this to pretend he cares, and to impress the voters with his caring and empathy. Yeah, right.
An empty gesture from this hollowed out, empty blob of a man.
global1
(25,224 posts)it was his idea from the start.
machoneman
(3,997 posts)Those effin' republiscumks would politicize ANYTHING if the shoe was on the other foot. Screw them and use the flag lowering as a signal of America in distress.
Thanks Trump!
Rollo
(2,559 posts)bermudat
(1,329 posts)ffr
(22,665 posts)Because of failed conservative politics.
C Moon
(12,209 posts)KPN
(15,636 posts)rusty quoin
(6,133 posts)Cha
(296,848 posts)https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=13469484
SunSeeker
(51,513 posts)He is such an asshole. Notice he does not mention the number of dead.
C Moon
(12,209 posts)now they are pandering to the churches: they are saying blue states aren't being fair to churches by not allowing them to gather.
Trump said he's going to address this very soon.
Things like this could, and probably will, affect the lead Biden now has.
BigmanPigman
(51,567 posts)"This is my war against Covid" it his theme for Memorial Day.
FakeNoose
(32,582 posts)That will be easier to say than "tens of thousands of victims." I'm not rooting for the virus, not by any means. It's just easier to hang a nice round number around Chump's neck.
texasfiddler
(1,989 posts)tavernier
(12,369 posts)the country lowering all the flags in federal buildings. AND he plans to shimmy up each pole and bring the flags down manually, because thats the manly way to do it.
And now news from the real world... Thank you Nancy and Chuck for making this happen. Hoping the loss of all these lives brings about a change in government for the poor and the helpless in our country.
packman
(16,296 posts)Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
heckles65
(547 posts)Seriously. When I was growing up it was lowered for the death of Kennedy in 1963. It was quite a novelty. I remember it lowered for the passing of Eisenhower in 1969. It may have been lowered to mark the passing of Herbert Hoover in 1965, I don't remember. Now it gets lowered almost all the time, it seems.
Worst is that it is lowered on Sept. 11 and Dec. 7th, when America was the target of hostile attacks. The last days it ought to be lowered.
Stop fiddling with Old Glory. Raise her high. And get that silly, depressing POW/MIA flag away from it.
mahina
(17,616 posts)Just racked up.
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