Flying the Flag of the United States at Full-Staff on Inauguration Day — Proclamation 10885 (Archive)

The proclamation also addresses all future Inauguration Days. Its January 2025 mourning sequence is historical; the document is not described here as wholly expired. This is an archival reproduction, not a notice to lower flags today.

Issued: January 20, 2025 · Document: Presidential Proclamation 10885 · President: Donald J. Trump

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Flag-display period and scope

• Type: Related full-staff exception.
• Flag: Flag of the United States.
• Period: Full-staff for the remainder of January 20, 2025, beginning immediately; return to half-staff when that Inauguration Day ended until the Carter mourning period concluded.
• Scope: Federal national and overseas locations specified in the transcript.

The Carter proclamation was issued by President Biden on December 29, 2024, before this archive’s term cutoff. This record is included because Trump’s January 20 proclamation explicitly returned flags to that earlier half-staff period.

Where the document does not specify an exact start time or time zone, none is inferred here. The complete source wording below controls the historical record.

Official document and signature page

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Official text: Flying the Flag of the United States at Full-Staff on Inauguration Day

The following is the White House’s published text (marked “AS PREPARED” by the source). Wording is reproduced without editorial corrections; the surrounding explanation is separate from the presidential document.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION

By the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in honor of Inauguration Day and everything good and noble that it represents about our Nation, our people, and our form of Government, I hereby order that, on this and all future Inauguration Days, the flag of the United States shall be flown at full-staff.

Accordingly, I hereby order that the flag of the United States shall be flown at full-staff at the White House and upon all public buildings and grounds, at all military posts and naval stations, and on all naval vessels of the Federal Government, in the District of Columbia and throughout the United States and its Territories and possessions, for the remainder of this day beginning immediately.

I also direct that, for the same period of time, the flag shall be flown at full-staff at all United States embassies, legations, consular offices, and other facilities abroad, including all military facilities and naval vessels and stations.

Upon the end of this Inauguration Day, I hereby order that the flag of the United States shall be returned to half-staff as directed by Proclamation 10876 of December 29, 2024 (Announcing the Death of James Earl Carter, Jr.), in recognition of the memory of our former President, until the period of 30 days from the day of his death has concluded.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twentieth day of January, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-ninth.

(AS PREPARED)

Official sources and archive notes

• Original White House proclamation
• Federal Register record — Proclamation 10885
• Official Federal Register PDF on GovInfo

The signed date and flag instruction were cross-checked against the official Federal Register PDF. Federal Register publication can occur after a proclamation was issued or after its flag-display period ended. This entry preserves that distinction.

This record is part of FORTISVEX’s archive for January 20, 2025 through October 25, 2026. It does not cover President Trump’s first term or state-only orders. Presidential source text is a U.S. federal government work reproduced for historical reference; reproduction does not imply government endorsement of FORTISVEX.