For the next week, flags will be flown at half-staff throughout the United States to honor Dolly Parton, President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social.
The country music icon, who with rhinestones and a blond bouffant carved out a singular place in American life as an unexpected feminist heroine, died on Tuesday. She was 80.
“There has never been anyone like her, and never will,” Trump said in his post on Truth Social, adding that flags will be lowered starting at 6 p.m. Tuesday.
It’s not the first time Trump has attempted to honor Parton. His administration twice offered her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, but she declined it, Parton said in an interview with the “Today” show.
“I couldn’t accept it because my husband was ill and then they asked me again about it and I wouldn’t travel because of the covid,” she told “Today.”
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