When Strength is Misunderstood: Donald Trump’s Toxic Masculinity and the Half-Mast Debate

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When Strength is Misunderstood: Donald Trump’s Toxic Masculinity and the Half-Mast Debate

Donald Trump’s reported insistence that flags be raised during his inauguration, despite their ordered half-mast position to honor the late President Jimmy Carter, reveals a profound misunderstanding of both tradition and strength. Trump has argued that half-mast flags signal weakness, a belief that undermines one of America’s most solemn and unifying rituals. In reality, lowering the flag is not a sign of frailty but rather of collective streng…