With temperatures expected to plummet in the United States, President-elect Donald Trump announced a change in plans for his inauguration on January 20, saying all events will
Donald Trump, the President-elect of the United States, confirmed that his inauguration speech on January 20th will be held indoors due to dangerously cold weather forecasted for Washington, D.C. The speech and other ceremonies will take place in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol.
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.
On Thursday, late President Carter is set to depart the U.S. Capitol at 9 a.m. and travel to the Washington National Cathedral for a ceremony at 9:30 a.m. followed by the National Funeral Services at 10 a.m. Then, Carter and his family will return to Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, where they will board back to Georgia.
The Capitol has a more expansive policy for lying in state. Congressman Henry Clay, in 1852, was the first to lie in the Capitol Rotunda. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover lay in the Capitol in 1972. Police officers killed in 1998 while protecting the Capitol also lay in state there. Sen. John McCain lay in state after his death earlier this year.
President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration next week is expected to be moved indoors because of cold weather, according to multiple reports Friday.
Services honoring former President Jimmy Carter began Jan. 4. Here is when he is scheduled to lie in state in Washington, D.C.
In a solemn moment at the Capitol Rotunda, President-elect Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, paid their respects to former President Jimmy Carter, whose remains lie in state ahea