Jason Carter says it didn’t bother him that U.S. flags were raised for President Donald Trump‘s inauguration after they were lowered in honor of his late grandfather, former President Jimmy Carter.
Trump’s move to raise the flags was unusual and went against the customs honoring recently deceased former presidents. Flags were ordered to be displayed at half-staff for 30 days following Jimmy Carter’s Dec. 29 death.
Despite the uncustomary move, Jason Carter said he understood it.
“Others in my family may disagree, but it did not bother me at all. President Trump was incredibly gracious to us,” he said on the Politically Georgia podcast.
Jason Carter met with Trump in a closed-door meeting recently. “He was very respectful. And I don’t think I have any problems saying, on this particular day, let’s raise the flags in honor of this peaceful transfer of power,” he said.
Trump later signed an executive order declaring that the flag must be at full-staff for all inauguration days in the future, preventing a similar predicament.
Jason Carter is a former Democratic state senator for Georgia and ran in the 2014 gubernatorial election for his state.
“It’s very hard to separate the wheat from the chaff. It’s very hard to tell what’s a serious policy and what’s just theater,” he said regarding Trump’s statements.
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“A lot of his theater stuff, I think Democrats reacted to the last time he was in office, and we all get consumed by it, in both parties, without really focusing necessarily on the things that actually matter,” the late president’s grandson added.
Jason Carter assisted his grandfather while he was in hospice care for over a year.
