Trump changed the location of his inauguration

18 January 05:41

US President-elect Donald Trump has changed the venue for his inauguration. It will take place not in the open air, but in the US Congress building. Trump wrote about this on Truth Social, Komersant ukrainskyi reports

The future head of the White House explained that he made this decision because of the abnormally low temperature expected in Washington on the day he takes office.

“I have ordered that the inaugural address – along with the prayer and other speeches – be held in the rotunda of the United States Capitol, as was organized by Ronald Reagan in 1985, also because of the very cold weather,” Trump wrote.

According to him, high-ranking guests will also be in the Congressional building, and the picture for the television audience will have a good view from there.

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According to Trump, the weather in Washington, D.C., with low temperatures and gusty winds, could pose a threat to the ceremony guests and anyone else who arrives at the National Mall in the capital, and “creates dangerous conditions for tens of thousands of law enforcement, first responders, police, K9 units, and even horses.”

Who is invited and intends to attend the inauguration

The guest list is headlined by leaders such as Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Argentine President Javier Milei, a Trump-style populist who won the 2023 Argentine presidential election. The latter confirmed his presence a month ago.

Georgia Maloney, who visited Mar-a-Lago earlier this month and was called a “fantastic woman” by Trump, has received an invitation and will attend the ceremony if her schedule allows it, according to her office. Also among the invitees is Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, an admirer of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has been called the “bad guy” of European politics. But, as Orban’s office told the Hungarian media, he will not be able to make it to the event. The President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen is also apparently not going to attend the inauguration, not because she can’t, but because, as Politico notes, she was clearly not invited.

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As for other officials, Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwai will attend the inauguration. The transitional administration has invited El Salvador’s President Nayiba Buchele, who has not yet confirmed his attendance, and Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa, who will attend the ceremony during a short visit to Washington.

There will be many special guests at the inauguration

In addition to billionaire Elon Musk, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and Meth CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the ceremony will also be attended by tech moguls from overseas, such as French billionaire and tech entrepreneur Xavier Niel and his wife.

From the United Kingdom, Trump’s transition team invited not only Ambassador to the United States Karen Pierce, but also the leader of the Reform Party, Nigel Farage. From France, anti-immigrant politician and author of the apocalyptic bestseller The French Suicide, Eric Zemmour, confirmed his presence. And these are not all the far-right populists Trump would like to see at his ceremony.

Also attending Trump’s inauguration will be Tom Van Grieken, leader of the Belgian far-right Vlaams Belang party, and former Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, who has been in a long-running dispute with Brussels over the rule of law.

Some members of Trump’s team opened their arms to Germany’s far-right by inviting the leader of the Alternative for Germany party, Alice Weidel. But her office, according to Politico, said that she would not be able to attend due to her busy campaign schedule.

The leader of the Spanish ultranationalist Vox party, Santiago Abascal, was also invited to the ceremony. The head of the right-wing populist Chega party, Andre Ventura, received an invitation from Portugal. Some other European far-right figures have also received invitations to the inauguration.

By the way, in his farewell speech as president, Joe Biden did not report so much as warn America, stating that the man who is about to take the presidency is an “existential threat to the nation.” In Biden’s view, the threat is so great that he even called for a change in the U.S. Constitution “to make clear that no president is immune from the crimes he or she commits while in office. Biden said that “an oligarchy is forming in America” as power and money are increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few.

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