Gonna play devil’s advocate here and say this is probably just for the 250th anniversary and it will go back to normal next year. This is probably ragebait.
The Deputy Secretary of State originally implied that was why, but now they’re steering into it, according to the NYT:
Eventually, the State Department’s top public affairs official, Dylan Johnson, chimed in with the department’s response to the flap.
“In no other foreign ministry or state department in the world do they display the flags of hundreds of other countries in place of their own,” he wrote on social media. “This is the United States Department of State — not the World Department of State.”
Gonna play devil’s advocate here and say this is probably just for the 250th anniversary and it will go back to normal next year. This is probably ragebait.
Edit: OP is a bot. Why did I even waste my time.
The Deputy Secretary of State originally implied that was why, but now they’re steering into it, according to the NYT: