Donald Trump moves inauguration indoors due to severely cold weather
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President-elect will be first to be sworn in inside since Reagan in 1985 when temperature was below freezing. Donald Trump has announced that his second inauguration ceremony will be moved indoors at the US Capitol due to dangerously cold temperatures forecast to hit the nation’s capital on Monday that would make the traditional outdoor swearing-in ceremony unsafe.
“The weather forecast for Washington DC, with the windchill factor, could take temperatures into severe record lows. There is an Arctic blast sweeping the Country. I don’t want to see people hurt, or injured, in any way,” Trump said in a Truth Social post.
“Therefore, I have ordered the Inauguration Address, in addition to prayers and other speeches, to be delivered in the United States Capitol Rotunda, as was used by Ronald Reagan in 1985, also because of very cold weather.”. The logistics of moving the inauguration indoors were still being finalized by transition officials and the joint congressional planning committee when Trump announced the news and promised that guests would be with him under the Capitol dome, according to people familiar with the matter.
The rotunda is often used for special events at the Capitol, for instance for state funerals, and there is infrastructure in place to seat roughly a hundred or so people in that space. Trump said in his post that the parade that typically follows, down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House, would be rerouted so he could go to the Capital One Arena nearby where he suggested guests unable to be relocated could watch the inauguration.
