However, there were those who saw this as sheer negligence, asserting that the U.S. appears to be "already sending a distress signal." However, this isn't the first instance of such a mistake.

Martha-Ann Alito, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito‘s wife, asserted from the beginning that her display of an upside-down American flag was meant as a “signal of distress.”. A since ...

A flag waving upside down (an upside down flag signals distress) was seen waving in front of the U.S. Capitol grounds in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 6, 2021.

The code, which is not legally enforceable, says that the flag should never be displayed upside-down “except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property.” ...

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s wife previously said the inverted American flag flown at the couple’s house in January 2021 was “an international signal of distress,” The Washington ...