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grounds and naval vessels" will fly at half-staff for 30 days after the death of a president Win McNamee/Getty; MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty; Jessica McGowan/Getty The American flag above the White ...

Jessica McGowan/Getty American flags are back to full-staff at the U.S. Capitol in honor of Donald Trump's inauguration, breaking from the U.S. flag code's guidelines for mourning a president.

That way, the American flag can fly even higher when Trump is president. Then, we can permanently drop all flagpoles’ height to seven-eighths of what they are now in four years, since we’ll be ...

The American flag would “for the first time ever during an Inauguration of a future President, be at half mast,” he added. “Nobody wants to see this, and no American can be happy about it.