McCarthy hangs Stars and Stripes on Flag Day after WH Pride

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy made a big show of hanging the Stars and Stripes at the US Capitol to mark Flag Day on Wednesday, after the White House caught flak for its own Pride flag display over the weekend.

“Celebration of Flag Day at the People’s House,” tweeted McCarthy (R-Calif.), 58, showing a picture of three US flags placed at the southeast entrance of the Capitol, on the House side of the building.

The move came after the Biden administration hosted a Pride event Saturday that featured two American flags flanking the rainbow-colored flag of the LGBTQ+ movement.

“As I said — I mean this, I swear to God — you’re some of the most — you’re some of the bravest and most inspiring people I’ve ever known. And I’ve known a lot of good folks,” President Biden said at the June 10 picnic on the South Lawn. “You set an example for the nation and, quite frankly, for the world. You know, we all move forward when we move together with your joy, with your pride lighting the way.”

A conservative legal group and prominent veterans later accused the White House of violating the US Flag Code by flying the Progress Pride banner between Old Glory.

“To advance revolutionary transgender agenda targeting children, Biden violates basic tenet of US Flag Code and disrespects every American service member buried under its colors,” said Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton.

US Flag Code §7(e) states: “The flag of the United States of America should be at the center and at the highest point of the group when a number of flags of States or localities or pennants of societies are grouped and displayed from staffs.”

“You would think the White House knows this,” Chad Robichaux, a Marine veteran who aided in the civilian evacuation of Afghanistan, told The Post Monday. “They do, they just don’t care.”

“I question the utility of my combat sacrifices when the commander-in-chief determines the American flag should acquiesce to another symbol of pride,” former Marine Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller said.

Asked Tuesday about the decision, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre — the first openly gay person to hold the position — said, “The administration was proud, again, to display the Pride flag. It was a historic event. It centered around love and family.”

Separate from the debate over the flag, trans influencer Rose Montoya flagrantly violated White House decorum by going topless during the party — and was banned from future events for doing so.

“This behavior is inappropriate and disrespectful for any event at the White House,” a White House spokesperson said. “It is not reflective of the event we hosted to celebrate LGBTQI+ families or the other hundreds of guests who were in attendance. Individuals in the video will not be invited to future events.”

Biden, 80, also said Saturday that discrimination against the LGBTQ+ community was ongoing, despite various legal protections in place.

“When a person can be married in the morning and thrown out of a restaurant for being gay in the afternoon, something is still very wrong in America,” he said.

Biden appeared to be referring to the lack of a federal LGBTQ+ anti-discrimination law that covers places of public accommodation.

The Supreme Court, in the 2020 case Bostock v. Clayton County, found federal civil rights laws that protect against employment discrimination on the basis of sex apply to sexual orientation and gender identity as well — suggesting future litigation, in lieu of legislation, could expand other federal nondiscrimination prohibitions to sexual and gender minorities.

About half of all states have their own nondiscrimination laws, though the precise prohibitions on discrimination vary. 

In December, Biden made the same remark while signing the Respect for Marriage Act, which codified the high court’s 2015 decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.