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Judi Lynn

(160,219 posts)
Fri May 22, 2020, 01:16 AM May 2020

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/

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Trump orders flags to half-staff for coronavirus victims (Original Post) Judi Lynn May 2020 OP
"I will be lowering..." sprinkleeninow May 2020 #1
He has no heart. CaliforniaPeggy May 2020 #2
Watch Him Try And Take Credit For The Flag Lowering Like..... global1 May 2020 #3
Wow! I am surprised. This will make for Democratic campaign videos. Yes, we do need to go there! machoneman May 2020 #14
President Plump should lower himself into a double-wide grave... Rollo May 2020 #4
President Plump, haven't heard that one before bermudat May 2020 #17
Memorial Day 2020, the year we lost 100 - 200 thousand American lives needlessly ffr May 2020 #5
Flags at half-mast because we have a half-assed president. C Moon May 2020 #6
Bumper sticker material if one could make a bumper sticker for the next few days. KPN May 2020 #18
He killed them. rusty quoin May 2020 #7
you don't fool us one Damn bit, BLOTUS. Cha May 2020 #8
He was shamed into doing it and now pretends it's his idea. SunSeeker May 2020 #9
The Trump campaign is playing all the old GOP stops... C Moon May 2020 #10
This is all a show for his campaign. BigmanPigman May 2020 #11
By this weekend the number should hit 100,000 FakeNoose May 2020 #12
I thought this was an "onion" article at first texasfiddler May 2020 #13
He's going to be one busy guy, running around tavernier May 2020 #15
Another version of "Thoughts and Prayers" packman May 2020 #16
I'm tired of having the flag lowered all the time. heckles65 May 2020 #19
I'm sure he's verklempt about it. mahina May 2020 #20

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,308 posts)
2. He has no heart.
Fri May 22, 2020, 01:35 AM
May 2020

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.

machoneman

(3,952 posts)
14. Wow! I am surprised. This will make for Democratic campaign videos. Yes, we do need to go there!
Fri May 22, 2020, 08:08 AM
May 2020

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!

ffr

(22,649 posts)
5. Memorial Day 2020, the year we lost 100 - 200 thousand American lives needlessly
Fri May 22, 2020, 01:40 AM
May 2020

Because of failed conservative politics.

Cha

(295,929 posts)
8. you don't fool us one Damn bit, BLOTUS.
Fri May 22, 2020, 02:11 AM
May 2020
Trump has routinely acted in bad faith out of self-interest, and now millions are sick, tens of thousands are dead, and 40 million are unemployed.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=13469484

SunSeeker

(51,378 posts)
9. He was shamed into doing it and now pretends it's his idea.
Fri May 22, 2020, 02:26 AM
May 2020

He is such an asshole. Notice he does not mention the number of dead.

C Moon

(12,188 posts)
10. The Trump campaign is playing all the old GOP stops...
Fri May 22, 2020, 03:08 AM
May 2020

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.

FakeNoose

(32,356 posts)
12. By this weekend the number should hit 100,000
Fri May 22, 2020, 06:34 AM
May 2020

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.



tavernier

(12,322 posts)
15. He's going to be one busy guy, running around
Fri May 22, 2020, 08:21 AM
May 2020

the country lowering all the flags in federal buildings. AND he plans to shimmy up each pole and bring the flags down manually, because that’s 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.

heckles65

(544 posts)
19. I'm tired of having the flag lowered all the time.
Fri May 22, 2020, 04:08 PM
May 2020

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.

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