One day after the president-elect’s surprise announcement, many fans who had travelled to see him being sworn in were left wondering what to do.
: Donald Trump supporters who spent months planning for his inauguration are still scrambling to make alternative plans after the president-elect moved his ceremony indoors amid dangerously cold weather in Washington.
“I don’t necessarily care. It’s gonna be cold; I don’t want to stand outside anyway,” Robert said while sightseeing at the Lincoln Memorial. Robert and Melinda Ferguson from Oklahoma travelled to Washington DC for the inauguration but won’t be able to attend after it was moved into the smaller Capitol Rotunda due to cold weather.The decision to move Trump’s swearing-in ceremony into the Capitol Rotunda marks the first time since Ronald Reagan’s 1985 inauguration that the event has taken place indoors.“There is an Arctic blast sweep in the country,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
Viewing areas had also been set up outside the White House and along the National Mall, where screens will now show the weather forecast on Monday to discourage people from congregating.Law enforcement officials had also embarked on a months-long security operation to keep the area safe, installing almost 50 metres of “unscalable” fencing around the district and bringing in about 25,000 police and military personnel.
“You can’t have someone out there for seven, eight hours in 10 or 11-degree weather . We wish everyone could be there, but once the president starts making everything happen on Monday after he is sworn in, everyone, I think, is going to be very happy.”At Trump’s first inauguration in 2017, his speech was dubbed “American carnage” due to its dark themes about a country rife with crime, economic decay, and “forgotten” men and women.
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