A Republican county official on Long Island refused to lower flags to half-staff following the death of former President Jimmy Carter.

President-elect Donald Trump railed against the order for American flags to be flown at half-staff to honor the late President Jimmy Carter, complaining that they will be in that position “for the first time ever during an Inauguration of a future President.

Democrats on New York’s Long Island cried foul over the weekend after a Donald Trump-supporting county executive did not lower his jurisdiction’s flags to half-staff in honor of the late President Jimmy Carter,

Critics had assailed the Nassau County executive for not ordering flags at half-staff to honor the 39th president.

A New York county that hadn’t been flying flags at half-staff following former President Jimmy Carter’s death announced on Sunday it’s planning to do so. “The flags in Nassau County will be at half-staff for President Carter from the commencement of Lying in State on January 7th through burial on January