He's right. The flag has never been at half staff during a swearing in of president. . .except:

[AZLD4Candidate]

John Tyler
Millard Fillmore
Andrew Johnson
Chester Arthur
Theodore Roosevelt
Harry Truman
Lyndon Johnson
Richard Nixon

All were at half staff at their swearing in.

And no American will stand for it, just like No True Scotsman will . . . aren't logical fallacies wonderful?

[FalloutShelter]

1. You forgot Nixon's 2nd Inaugural.

Truman passed on Dec. 26, 1972

[Clouds Passing]

2. That should be read into the Congressional record!

[oldtime dfl_er]

3. so......he's NOT right

.

[groundloop]

17. What a shocker.

[calimary]

48. Hah. No kidding.

But hey, he’s the “I Need Fact-Checking” King of this decade.

[malaise]

4. What do you expect from an effin

Ignoramus

[ShazzieB]

19. Exactly this!

And don't forget, this is not just an ignoramus we're talking about. It's a malignantly narcissistic ignoramus that thinks it is the center of the universe and personalizes every single frickin' thing that happens to it (or around it, or near it, or within its awareness).

Never forget: When it comes to the Orange Hellbeast, EVERYTHING is ALL about him, ALL of the damned time!

[Dave Bowman]

21. "Orange Hellbeast"

I like it! 👍

[ShazzieB]

24. Thanks. I came up with that myself. ☺

Hellbeast sums up exactly what I think he is, because he's like an evil force come to destroy everything that matters.

[malaise]

31. You nailed it

[Dave Bowman]

20. He's dumber than dumb. But our juges decided that you answer is correct.

Damn I miss Alex...

[Omnipresent]

5. This just in:

None of that list of presidents cried like a whiny, little baby, about the flag being flown at half staff.
Melania, it’s time for you to change your husband’s diaper!

[Dave Bowman]

23. Lol! He's a 12 year old in a crumbling old body.

[AZ8theist]

34. That's an insult to 12 year olds...

He's nowhere near that smart.

[Dave Bowman]

37. Lol, so true.

[Attilatheblond]

6. If it ain't about him and how persecuted he is.... it never happened

Never been a grown (groan?) man so badly treated in the history of mankind.... according to him.

[bronxiteforever]

7. TFG however did break precedent

by inviting chinese communist leader Xi to his inauguration.

“If any foreign leaders do show up at the inaugural ceremony, it would be unprecedented.
State Department records dating back to 1874, when the first visit by a foreign leader took place, show no head of a foreign country has ever attended a presidential inauguration in the U.S., though CBS notes it’s common for lower-ranking foreign diplomats or ambassadors to show up.
Foreign leaders aren’t typically invited to inaugurations due to the large crowds and “security concerns,” officials told the Associated Press in 2009, when Barack Obama’s transition team declined to invite any heads of state to his inauguration, citing historical precedent.”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2024/12/13/trump-invited-chinese-president-xi-jinping-and-other-world-leaders-to-inauguration-heres-why-thats-unprecedented/

I guess the GOP party leaders agree with this. Too bad the media just dropped this. I guess they can’t be too critical of their paymaster’s hero.

[Farmer-Rick]

13. Well, at least Xi has brains enough to decline

Such an impossible invitation. Imagine him traveling so far away, his security detail would be huge. He would be standing within shooting range of GOP members who see him, and his form of communism, as the devil.

Imagine Xi having to listen to the unfiltered crap spewing forth from the pedophile. Could he remain stoic and not cringe?

What a stupid invitation but maybe pedo Trump was trying to pump up.his spectator numbers with Xi's security team.

[Journeyman]

44. Yeah, "large crowds" won't be an issue in this inauguration (outside the simpleton's mind, that is) . . .

[KS Toronado]

8. You're forgetting that TSF is the best prez this Country has ever known!

So do what he wants!

[Dave Bowman]

25. Yep, he's the bestest president. Ever. :rofl:

[rubbersole]

9. Make the big baby happy....

...just fly the Russian flag during the "inauguration". Then put ours back in place.

[surfered]

10. Thanks for that. Trump could get his revenge by dying right before the inauguration of the Democratic candidate...

…who defeats J D Vance in 2028.

[Wounded Bear]

11. trump lied? Say it isn't so...

[AZLD4Candidate]

14. In other news, the sun rose in the east, night is still dark, water is still wet, and snow is still cold.

I know, right？

[lastlib]

12. Add Calvin Coolidge to that list....

sworn in after Warren Harding's death.

[AZLD4Candidate]

15. Coolidge wanted to be know as the least president ever, which is the reason I left him off. But you're right.

[Ford_Prefect]

16. It is a well established fact that DJT doesn't read anything he disagrees with or is longer than fits a 3x5 card.

His ego is an exaggerated safety device to prevent his consciousness from encountering any confounding information.

Short version: DJT is a whining brat who avoids the truth to the extent that he physically cannot speak it nor bear to hear it spoken.

[mucholderthandirt]

18. And it doesn't matter. It's happening now. It's not about him, it's about Jimmy Carter. Suck it, Trump.

[onenote]

22. I'm not sure about all of those examples, but the Nixon example definitely is correct.

There have been numerous instances of presidents being sworn in within 30 days of the death of previous president, including all of the instances of a VP being sworn in upon the death of a sitting president. The latter group of swearing in ceremonies aren't really the kind of event most people think of as an "inauguration ceremony" and its not clear whether an order directing the flying of flags at half staff was made before or after the swearing in all of those cases.

But in the case of Nixon's 1973 inauguration, flags had been ordered flown at half staff following the death of Truman a few weeks earlier and were still at half staff on inauguration day:https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=AwrFQJTeRXxnRKAJHWeJzbkF;_ylu=c2VjA3NlYXJjaARzbGsDYnV0dG9u;_ylc=X1MDOTYwNjI4NTcEX3IDMgRmcgN5ZnAtdARmcjIDcDpzLHY6aSxtOnNiLXRvcARncHJpZAMxRlVQUXZ6eFJ0bVZFODEzNC53NmhBBG5fcnNsdAMwBG5fc3VnZwMwBG9yaWdpbgNpbWFnZXMuc2VhcmNoLnlhaG9vLmNvbQRwb3MDMARwcXN0cgMEcHFzdHJsAzAEcXN0cmwDMzYEcXVlcnkDbml4b24lMjBpbmF1Z3VyYXRpb24lMjAxOTczJTIwcGhvdG9zJTIwZmxhZ3MEdF9zdG1wAzE3MzYxOTc2NDk-?p=nixon+inauguration+1973+photos+flags&fr=yfp-t&fr2=p%3As%2Cv%3Ai%2Cm%3Asb-top&ei=UTF-8&x=wrt#id=44&iurl=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.gettyimages.com%2Fid%2F517285048%2Fphoto%2F1-20-1973-washington-dc-president-richard-nixon-inauguration-general-view-of-swearing-in.jpg%3Fs%3D612x612%26w%3Dgi%26k%3D20%26c%3DT872GPryj0aMa7f-NJXLeS75ld1vMvTK5M4jO13BBl8%3D&action=click

[Dave Bowman]

27. How fitting for that crook.

[Journeyman]

45. Presidential and State Funerals (The White House Historical Society) . . .

This article provides a short synopsis of most of the examples.

https://www.whitehousehistory.org/press-room/press-backgrounders/presidential-and-state-funerals

[Glorfindel]

26. What about Calvin Coolidge? Harding died in office of natural causes.

I'm sure the flag was at half-staff when Coolidge was sworn in.

[markpkessinger]

30. You shouldn't be so sure . . .

The rule of flying flags at half staff for 30 days in honor of a deceased former president is part of the U.S. Flag Code, which was instituted by Eisenhower in 1954. Prior to that, there was no uniform flag code, so the actual practice may have varied quite a bit.

[markpkessinger]

28. The rule of flying flags at half staff for 30 days in mourning for a president . . .

. . . is part of the U.S. Flag Code, which didn't exist prior to 1954, when Eisenhower signed it into law. So while you are certainly right about Johnson and Nixon, I'm not sure it was the case with Truman and the earlier presidents. Do you have a source that can confirm that?

[markpkessinger]

29. Actually, I'm not so sure it was the case with Johnson either . . .

. . . since he was sworn in aboard Air Force One and there was no formal inauguration per se (although there was in 1964, when he was elected to office).

[markpkessinger]

32. Unless someone can provide a source verifying that flags were flown at half staff for each of the examples in the OP ...

. . . we really cannot just assume that it was done for the inaugurations of Tyler through Truman, because there was no flag code prior to 1954, when Eisenhower instituted it. And Johnson's swearing in happened on Air Force One, so there was no inauguration per se, except when he ran and won in 1964. As for Nixon, yes, one can readily verify that they were flown at half mast at his second inauguration in 1973 in honor of Truman's passing in December of 1972.

I tried to do some checking, but could find no source verifying that flags were at half staff for any of the earlier inaugurations.

[Celerity]

46. Agree. Unless legit documentation is provided I will not vouch for the accuracy of the OP's claims.

[markpkessinger]

33. Gety Images has this photo from the day of Truman's inauguration . . .

. . . It doesn't appear that flags were flown at half staff.

https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/general-view-of-the-capitol-and-the-crowd-attending-the-news-photo/1169815382

[Unladen Swallow]

35. Whoa!

[Figarosmom]

39. Thats his 2nd term. Half at first

Swearing in

He was FDRs vice and was sworn in at his death

[markpkessinger]

49. The only inauguration Truman had was his second . . .

. . . his first swearing in took place in the Cabinet room of the White House.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

36. I love it!! Watch Trump try to stop it....

I swear Jimmy picked the right time to go. Comparisons are being made between the goodness of him and the evilness of Trump over and over. And the fact that Trump will have “his day” ruined by the flags being flown half-mast is probably giving Jimmy a chuckle. Anyone else would not let it ruin their day but for someone as petty as Trump, it will really aggravate him.

[Figarosmom]

38. Trump will have that flag at full staff right after he's sworn in.

Because it is all about him.

[lostnfound]

43. "It's just all about him" might have been a nice slogan for wry, mocking ads

maybe a Canadian voice.

[TheGreatConspiracy]

40. I get it...

And if I were Trump, I would refuse to serve as president under such conditions.

[Historic NY]

41. Wait until he finds out the 20th is MLK Day too.

[Evolve Dammit]

47. I know that's who I will be celebrating

[dchill]

42. He's ALWAYS right. Except when he's not - which is always.

[Ping Tung]

50. Why not just take it down entirely? Then Donnie can fondle it, slobber over it, and make some real headlines.

[AZLD4Candidate]

51. Knowing him, he'd probably masturbate on it and say it's all good MAGAts should do.

[Ping Tung]

52. Well, he might.....but the Sacred Bone Spur gets in the way.

[gopiscrap]

53. watch that fucker order all flags

to full staff as soon as he is inaugurated

[MacKasey]

55. And that would be in the history books

About how he was a POS to have it done.

[Bluetus]

54. This inauguration itself is sufficient justification

for flags to fly at half staff, regardless of President Carter.