The former second lady's absence comes just days after she declined to shake hands with Donald and Melania Trump at Jimmy Carter's funeral

Fountain Hills, AZ, to fly flags at full-staff for Trump's inauguration despite the death of ex-President Carter.

Trump and First Lady Melania Trump to the White House ahead of the swearing-in ceremony at the Capitol Rotunda. The events come on the heels of the death of former President Jimmy Carter. Biden ordered flags to fly at half-staff for 30 days for a period of mourning.

American flags are back to full-staff at the U.S. Capitol in honor of Donald Trump's inauguration, breaking the U.S. flag code's guidelines for mourning the death of Jimmy Carter

U.S. flags are flying at full-staff over the White House and all public grounds by order of President Trump. He had complained that flags would be at [half-staff on his inauguration day](

In accordance with U.S. flag code, President Joe Biden directed all U.S. flags be flown at half-staff for 30 days following the passing of President Jimmy Carter.

President Donald Trump signed nearly 100 executive orders upon entering office — including one that would ensure the nation's flags fly high to mark his inauguration, despite them being lowered to honor the late former President Jimmy Carter.

GOP governors of at least eight states ordered flags to be flown at full-staff on Inauguration Day, bucking tradition by raising flags before the end of a customary 30-day mourning period following the death of former President Jimmy Carter.