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

Flags are flying at half-staff across the country to commemorate former President Jimmy Carter — except for in one New York county. Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman has refused to lower flags at government buildings in his district,

A Republican official who oversees Nassau County on New York's Long Island  seemingly refused to lower flags to half-staff in memory of the late Democratic President Jimmy Carter, who died last weekend at the age of 100.

Republican Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman had to be shamed into agreeing to lower US flags to half-mast in honor of the late ex-president Jimmy Carter.

President-elect Donald Trump is upset and complaining about the flags flying at half-staff to honor the late 39th President Jimmy Carter during his inauguration on January 20 in Washington, D.C. He fumed about the flags flying at half-mast “for the first time ever during an Inauguration of a future President.