Incoming President Donald Trump railed recently about the outrage that is apparently sweeping through the nation.

The American flag, it seems, will be flying at half-staff when he is inaugurated on Jan. 20.

“Look at what they’ve done to our once GREAT America over the past four years ‒ It’s a total mess!” Trump ranted on Jan. 3 on social media.

“In any event, because of the death of President Jimmy Carter, the Flag may, for the first time ever during an Inauguration of a future President, be at half mast. Nobody wants to see this, and no American can be happy about it. Let’s see how it plays out."

Let’s do.

You can tell a lot about person by the way they handle symbolic gestures, those small but significant actions that signal honor and respect.

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