Summary
Donald Trump has scaled back his second inauguration plans, moving the ceremony indoors to the Capitol Rotunda due to bitterly cold weather and lower-than-expected hotel occupancy rates in Washington, D.C.
Attendance for second-term inaugurations typically declines, with hotel occupancy at 74% compared to higher rates in 2017.
What kind of dickhead would willingly attend this anyway?
Hell really did freeze over if it’s gonna be too cold out there for his little hands.
Isn’t choosing 2017 a bit disingenuous as the average American isn’t doing as well financially as we were before we elected Trump the first time?
Was the Four Seasons booked?
I wish they’d book Four Seasons Landscaping again. That was hilarious, a good indicator of the chaos and incompetence which followed.
Closed for the winter and no one would plow the snow out of the parking lot.
I half expected it to be in a McDonalds, or a Tesla showroom.
That’s the problem with surrounding yourself with billionnaire sycophants: there’s only so many billionnaires to create a crowd. But it’s much easier to make it look like a bigger crowd in an enclosed space.
It’s too bad the weather provides a genuine excuse to move the proceedings indoors, because even if it was 70 degrees, he’d still do it and then it would be obvious why.
People are posting pictures of Kennedy’s inauguration, where it was 22F and he wore just a regular suit with no coat.
Edit: pic: https://i.imgur.com/TIIOOAd.jpg
He wasn’t a doddering old man. He was almost half Trump’s age.
Kennedy was a lot younger at his inauguration (43) than Trump is now (78).
And only Roosevelt was younger at 42. In comparison, Obama was 47, Bush 54, Clinton 46 and Carter 52.
The “old fart” trend was started by Trump, who was already the oldest president at the start of his term last time. Then Biden was the oldest and now it’s Trump again.
Diapers insulate well though.
Not wet ones
Yeah and also, the King of Kauai will be in attendance this time. Hawaiians aren’t used to the cold, and Trump wouldn’t want to jeopardize the health of one of his megarich buddies.
Sooooo… what will they do with the $200 million dollars?
Same thing they did with the money from the last inaugural fund, steal it and never receive any consequences.
They’re all gratuities for a job well done, so he gets to keep it all.
Tips if you will. Which will not pay taxes soon.
Pocket it
Interesting that in his concern for who might get hurt, he lists police dogs and “even horses” before civilians.
he lists police dogs
Not quite: the article says “police K9s”. Because as we all know, stupid acronyms are much more sensitive to cold than regular words.
It’ll be the biggest crowd ever all crammed in that confined space. Not even Obama had crowds as big as this one!
