President Joe Biden ordered that all flags be flown at half-staff for 30 days in honor of former President Jimmy Carter, who passed away late last month at the age of 100.

However, the Associated Press recently verified that a large flag outside of President-elect Donald Trump Mar-a-Lago resort is still flying at full-staff. 

Flag raised following Carter's funeral

In an article published on Tuesday, the news service pointed out how Trump's flag was initially lowered in accordance with decrees issued by both Biden and Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Yet although the flags are supposed to remain at half-staff until January 28, the Mar-a-Lago flag was raised following Carter's funeral this past Thursday.

What's more, the Associated Press pointed out how Trump previously expressed frustration over the prospect of flags being at half-staff during his inauguration ceremony.

"The Democrats are all 'giddy' about our magnificent American Flag potentially being at 'half mast' during my Inauguration," Reuters quoted Trump as writing in a social media post earlier this month.

Trump complained that this would be "the first time ever during an Inauguration of a future President" that the American flag is flown at half-staff, adding, "Nobody wants to see this, and no American can be happy about it."

Richard Nixon raised flags for his inauguration

Meanwhile, Los Angeles' ABC 7 Eyewitness News noted how the U.S. Flag Code provides that flags "shall be flown at half-staff 30 days from the death of the President or a former President."

It also recalled two occasions in which then-President Richard Nixon ordered that flags be raised after having previously been lowered.

The first instance took place in January of 1973 when Nixon raised flags for his inauguration despite having lowered them following the death of former President Harry S. Truman.

The second example came a month later when he lowered flags after former President Lyndon Johnson passed away but subsequently raised them to celebrate the return of American prisoners from Vietnam.

Mike Johnson will temporarily raise flags on January 20

For his part, House Speaker Mike Johnson announced on Tuesday that flags at the United State Capitol will temporarily go back up this coming Monday when Trump is sworn into office.

On January 20th, the flags at the Capitol will fly at full-staff to celebrate our country coming together behind the inauguration of our 47th President, Donald Trump.

The flags will be lowered back to half-staff the following day to continue honoring President Jimmy Carter.

— Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) January 14, 2025

"The flags will be lowered back to half-staff the following day to continue honoring President Jimmy Carter," Johnson went on to stress.