While New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy issued a statement just before 6 p.m. Monday, an hour after sunset, that flags would be raised “for the remainder of Inauguration Day,” Assemblyman Brian Bergen, R-Morris, said the governor shouldn’t have bothered at that point.
“It was a day to put aside the blue versus red and stand unified in the red, white, and blue,” Bergen said. “It was a day for all Americans to celebrate the peaceful transfer of power in the most powerful nation on the planet for all the world to witness, and Murphy made it about politics. Petty and disgraceful.”
At least 30 governors across the nation, including Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom, directed that the American flag be flown at full staff Jan. 20 to honor the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States. Flags have been flying at half-staff across the nation since Dec. 31 to mourn the passing of President Jimmy Carter, who died Dec. 29 at age 100.
Flags will return to and remain at half-staff through Jan. 28.
