Trump's going to HATE this (or maybe not?). Plans to move inauguration indoors to Capitol Rotunda.

[Tommy Carcetti]

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Kate Sullivan @KateSullivanDC

NEW: Trump’s inauguration is expected to be moved indoors Monday due to dangerously cold temperatures projected in DC. Plans are underway to have Trump be sworn in inside the Capitol Rotunda and the parade potentially be held at the Capital One Arena.

11:35 AM · Jan 17, 2025 45.3K Views

Gone are the optics of the thousands of fans down the National Mall watching him get sworn in.

Somebody call Sean Spicer, who will insist that there were 1.5 million people inside the Capitol Rotunda.

ON EDIT:

Looks like Trump himself may have chickened out, fearing no one would show up.

Even funnier.

Link to tweet

[sop]

1. It's a sign, God is displeased.

[Tommy Carcetti]

3. That's what happens when you decide to raise the flag that had been lowered out of respect to Pres. Carter. nt

[newdeal2]

7. MTG must hold a hearing on this

Dems have gone too far with their woke weather machine!

[vapor2]

19. don't give her any ideas......lmao

[Rebl2]

21. Strange

My husband and I were joking this morning about MTG calling for hearings blaming democrats for the cold weather coming to DC on Inauguration Day.

[Habitation]

22. Covid-19 will be there

Kenneth Copeland will be escorting it inside
https://youtube.com/shorts/dYkp4npZ6EI

[greatauntoftriplets]

2. Damn.

I wanted him to freeze his ample ass off.

[momta]

69. 'Cause you know his speech would (will) be loooooooong!

Maybe he could make like William Henry Harrison.

[greatauntoftriplets]

71. And nonsensical.

[patricia92243]

4. Which president was it that stayed out in the cold so that he died soon after that?

[Tommy Carcetti]

6. William Henry Harrison nt

[LeftInTX]

15. The inauguration didn't kill him. He got sick three weeks later after running around in the cold rain.

An analysis from 2014 believes he died from typhoid. However, the fact that he was fine for three weeks, indicates that the inauguration didn't do him in.

[Wiz Imp]

48. From Wikipedia:

On Wednesday, March 24, 1841, Harrison took his daily morning walk to local markets, without a coat or hat. Despite being caught in a sudden rainstorm, he did not change his wet clothes upon return to the White House. On Friday, March 26, Harrison became ill with cold-like symptoms and sent for his doctor, Thomas Miller, though he told the doctor he felt better after having taken medication for "fatigue and mental anxiety". The next day, Saturday, the doctor was called again, and arrived to find Harrison in bed with a "severe chill", after taking another early morning walk. Miller applied mustard plaster to his stomach and gave him a mild laxative, and he felt better that afternoon. At 4:00 a.m. Sunday, March 28, Harrison developed severe pain in the side and the doctor initiated bloodletting; the procedure was terminated when there was a drop in his pulse rate. Miller also applied heated cups to the president's skin to enhance blood flow. The doctor then gave him castor oil and medicines to induce vomiting, and diagnosed him with pneumonia in the right lung. A team of doctors was called in Monday, March 29, and they confirmed right lower lobe pneumonia.

No official announcements were made concerning Harrison's illness, which fueled public speculation and concern the longer he remained out of public view. Washington society had noticed his uncharacteristic absence from church on Sunday. Conflicting and unconfirmed newspaper reports were based on leaks by people with contacts in the White House. A Washington paper reported on Thursday, April 1, that Harrison's health was decidedly better. In fact, Harrison's condition had seriously weakened, and Cabinet members and family were summoned to the White House—his wife Anna had remained in Ohio due to her own illness. According to papers in Washington on Friday, Harrison had rallied, despite a Baltimore Sun report that his condition was of a "more dangerous character". n the evening of Saturday, April 3, Harrison developed severe diarrhea and became delirious, and at 8:30 p.m. he uttered his last words, to his attending doctor, assumed to be for Vice President John Tyler: "Sir, I wish you to understand the true principles of the government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more." Harrison died at 12:30 a.m. on April 4, 1841, Palm Sunday, nine days after becoming ill and exactly one month after taking the oath of office.

The prevailing theory at the time was that his illness had been caused by the bad weather at his inauguration three weeks earlier. Jane McHugh and Philip A. Mackowiak did an analysis in Clinical Infectious Diseases (2014), examining Miller's notes and records showing that the White House water supply was downstream of public sewage, and they concluded that he likely died of septic shock due to "enteric fever".

So it appears he did catch pneumonia, perhaps partly due to walking outside without a coat or hat and then not changing clothes after being caught in a rainstorm, only it wasn't at the inauguration but a few weeks later. Once he caught pneumonia, he also came down with the enteric fever which likely killed him.

[LeftInTX]

50. Sounds like they both happened at once. He was probably starting with enteric fever stuff and the pneumonia happened

quick and fast.

[Wiz Imp]

52. Agreed.

Suffering both at the same time would have just devastated his ability for his immune system to fight back against either.

[MadameButterfly]

60. It sounds like the medical treatment didn't help

He felt better after the first medicine (for anxiety) was administered--I bet he did. They administered all kinds of drugs we wouldn't allow today. I wonder what it was. Blood-letting (until his pulse dropped), mustard plaster, laxative, heated cups....

They say Garfield died not of the assassinations bullets but the medical care that followed.

[newdeal2]

5. Hahaha

Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.

[Arazi]

8. Cold day in hell... 😈

[EYESORE 9001]

9. Look on the bright side

His adoring fans aren’t likely to disperse, even if they can’t lay eyes on the object of their adoration, so they’ll bear the brunt of inclement weather. May this day serve as a metaphor for all the discomfort they’re about to experience.

[dem4decades]

10. Inside the arena? Isn't that where the circus is usually held?

[nolabear]

38. They'll have a WWE bout in the center.

[gab13by13]

11. Trump will pretend to hate it.

He is more afraid of the tumbleweed on top of his head blowing off.

[riversedge]

12. Yesterday I saw a Picture of workers setting up what seemed to a godzillion chairs OUTdoors. Those

workers now seem to have more work to do.

I am from mid WI--it is always cold in the winter.
-I say bundle up--put your long underwear on and have it outdoors. Just my opine!

[Starbeach]

13. It's All About the Hair

Can't fool us. That creature on his head might make a run for it.

[Baitball Blogger]

14. He worked so hard to get in, it feels karmic.

He should also be happy about it, because there's less chance he'll get sick from standing in inclimate weather.

[Wiz Imp]

41. Honestly, I think fear of getting sick is part of why he is OK with this.

He's already clearly not well. I've got to think it wouldn't take much for him to catch pneumonia or something similar.

Add in the fact that they know the crowd wasn't going to be very large (Hotels are booked waaayyyy below capacity unlike normal inaugurations where they are close to 100%) so having it inside will be less embarrassing in terms of having a really small crowd.

[BoRaGard]

16. Have republicans cleaned up The Shit that they shit there on J6?

The turds left in the Capitol by magat republicons may be gone,
but the stink will linger for centuries...

[Hugin]

17. Those damn Democrats and their weather manipulation apparatus!

Brace yourself for weeks, nay years, of claims this disproves global warming.

The High Maintenance Mussolini will demand a second Imposition Ceremony to be held on Hitler’s birthday in April. Which he’ll probably get. Very efficiently.

[mcar]

18. The scene of the J6 crime

How apt.

[Walleye]

27. Yes, I was just thinking that

I don’t know if that’s irony or not, but it’s some kind of literary twist.

[sop]

32. Trump will use images of his followers storming the Capitol on 1/6 and claim it was the overflow crowd outside

his inauguration fighting with police to get into the building.

[republianmushroom]

20. Trump's going to HATE this. Maybe not.

Fewer people will be needed to stand around to show how large the crowd is. Less money spent the more he gets.

[EndlessWire]

23. He wants to upstage Carter.

The Rotunda was where Pres. Carter lay in state recently. I wouldn't mind if rumpy would drop dead and then be displayed in the Rotunda as refuse. That would be a good trade off.

[sheshe2]

24. Bwahahahaha

I love that second tweet!

[Ping Tung]

25. Melania says she "doesn't care".

[Walleye]

26. Weather weenie!

[FSogol]

28. The Capitol Rotunda? Have they really thought that out? His farting will loudly echo thru the chamber.

Not even Kid Rock and Carrie Underwood will be able to cover that up!

[Traildogbob]

29. Not at all

Right for his fat Asir be sworn in, in our building, his MAGGOT’S attacked to over through the Government the U.S.
let him do it at Mardi-LARDO.
Guaranteed a small crowd, cause he would never let his broke ass nasty, tooth deprived base near his rich man haven.

[NameAlreadyTaken]

30. What a bold and courageous leader!

[Give Peace A Chance]

45. A MANLY MAN!!!!

It's so fitting that they will hold it at the scene of the crime.

[NameAlreadyTaken]

47. They'll try to turn it into,

"You see?! you see?! We were right all along!"

[Jilly_in_VA]

31. Chickenshit bastard!

He's afraid of a little cold weather!

[SARose]

33. Isn't he having a rally on Sunday?

Looking at weather forecast of heavy snow storm with high of 37.

😂🤣

[Wiz Imp]

39. Sunday rally is indoors at the arena

[SARose]

66. Yes but

How is everyone going to get to the arena in the midst of a “major snowstorm?”

I’ve ridden their Metro during rain storms and the water pours down the entrances. I assume snow will accumulate there.

How will snow plows be able to cope?

Might not be a very big crowd there, either.

[Wiz Imp]

68. I agree that crowds will likely not be as big as Trump expects

Sorry, I inadvertently missed where you mentioned a major snow storm forecast. The last I saw was a forecast for light snow at worst and I didn't realize it had changed. Been to DC probably a hundred times in my life but never during a snow storm. But yes, my brother was there during a blizzard and can attest that DC doesn't handle even a little snow very well. So it will likely make it much harder for the idiots who go to actually get there, but I note that there is a metro station right at the arena.

[SARose]

70. No prob

I would hate to be there in a bad snow storm. I’ve been there in a bad rainstorm like I said. Can you say waterfall?😳

👍

[WestMichRad]

34. Mike Johnson will order the weather to warm up.

Those disrespectful conditions will not be tolerated.

Damn libruls f**ing with the weather again!

[progressoid]

35. Just wear some damn mittens!

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[Ray Bruns]

36. How can he take over Greenland if he can't even handle 20 degree weather?"

[electric_blue68]

46. Bwah!

[Prairie Gates]

37. "Dangerously cold"

25 degrees!

[Wiz Imp]

40. Wind chills are expected to be around zero to low single digits at the highest.

[Prairie Gates]

42. LOL

Soooooooooft

[JoseBalow]

43. This is 100% to protect his comb-over from blowing away in the wind

[Lemons UK]

44. Mother Nature off to a roaring start. May she continue.

[Wiz Imp]

49. For the record, this will almost certainly be the coldest inauguration since Reagans 2nd in 1985.

The temperature at noon that day was 7 degrees. According to the National Weather Service the weather was Sunny, but bitter cold. Wind chill temperatures fell into the -10° to -20°F range in the afternoon. Reagan's inauguration was also moved inside the Capitol, the last one to do so until this year.

[William769]

51. Nothing ever goes his way.

[Lotusflower70]

53. Excuses

He doesn't want tiny crowd pictures again

[Anna Dault]

54. Isn't the Rotunda where they have state funerals?? [end]

[Pas-de-Calais]

55. He's a orange welp

[aggiesal]

56. I heard they were trying to get Capital One Arena, where the Wizards & Captials play. Capacity 20,356 n/t

[CentralMass]

57. He doesn't want his diaper to freeze.

[IzzaNuDay]

67. At least the cold wind will disperse the stench

in case his diaper overflows!

[S/V Loner]

58. They will be there and...

he will step out for a minute to get his photo along with the bullshit claims.
Bet on it!

[Beck23]

59. He's also afraid his comb over will fly off.

[CapnSteve]

61. It's not the cold....

...it's not the crowd size. He could care less about his mindless followers freezing to death - it's the high winds!

[Fla Dem]

62. He'll say "1 million "Patriots" showed up" just couldn't see them as they were all outside.

[CaptainTruth]

64. Can I still hope for pneumonia?

[CaptainTruth]

65. He can say millions, even billions were outside & for once he wouldn't be lying.

Most of the world's population will be outside the Capitol Rotunda.