A frosty presidential inauguration? Trump moves ceremony indoors
Al Jazeera
US President-elect Donald Trump faces one of the coldest inauguration days in modern history when he is sworn in Monday.
Faced with an icy polar vortex, United States President-elect Donald Trump has announced plans to move his upcoming inauguration ceremony indoors.
Traditionally, the ceremony has taken place outdoors, most commonly on the marble steps of the Capitol in Washington, DC.
But with meteorologists predicting one of the coldest inauguration days in recent history, Trump decided on Friday that safety mandated a slight venue change.
“There is an Arctic blast sweeping the Country. I don’t want to see people hurt, or injured, in any way,” Trump wrote on his platform Truth Social.
“It is dangerous conditions for the tens of thousands of Law Enforcement, First Responders, Police K9s and even horses, and hundreds of thousands of supporters that will be outside for many hours.”
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US President-elect Donald Trump faces one of the coldest inauguration days in modern history when he is sworn in Monday.
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