President-elect Donald Trump announced that he has ordered his inauguration ceremony to move inside the U.S. Capitol rotunda on Monday, Jan. 20, due to dangerously cold weather
The coldest inauguration on record was President Ronald Reagan’s second swearing-in ceremony in January 1985, when the temperature was 7 degrees, followed by President Ulysses Grant’s ceremony in 1873 at 16 degrees and President John F. Kennedy’s ceremony in 1961 at 22 degrees.
President-elect Donald Trump said his inauguration will take place in the Capitol Rotunda due to dangerously low temperatures.
Chilly temperatures pushed President-elect Donald Trump's second inauguration indoors, a rare but not unprecedented move.
The decision to move Monday's swearing-in means thousands of people with plans to visit Washington won’t be able to see President-elect Donald Trump’s second inauguration in person.
The worst weather for an inaugural came in March 1909, when 10 inches of snow forced William H. Taft to move indoors to be sworn in.
Donald Trump has been robbed of a huge swearing-in ceremony after his inauguration was moved indoors due to dangerously freezing temperatures
President-elect Donald Trump said he is moving his inauguration indoors Monday due to the freezing weather expected in Washington, D.C. Trump said he'll be sworn in and deliver his inauguration address inside the Capitol Rotunda.
The Rotunda is prepared as an alternative for each inauguration in the event of inclement weather. The swearing-in was last moved indoors in 1985, when President Ronald Reagan began his second term. Monday’s forecast calls for the lowest Inauguration Day temperatures since that day.
The inauguration ceremony of Donald J. Trump will be moved indoors Monday due to the extreme cold, the president-elect announced in a statement Friday. "The weather forecast for Washington, D.C., with the windchill factor,
Donald Trump will take the oath of office from inside the Capitol Rotunda on Monday due to forecasts of intense cold weather.