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The United States is just days away from Inauguration Day, when President-elect Donald Trump officially succeeds President Joe Biden. As befits a culture that is a quarter of a millennium old, there will be plenty of pomp and ceremony. This is what you want to know.
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It’s a busy celebration, beginning with a service at St. John’s Episcopal Church, which was built in 1815 and has long been the site of such inaugural events.
This will be followed by the inauguration ceremony, which will take place at the U. S. Capitol around noon. However, due to weather concerns, Trump said in an article in Truth Social that he would be moving indoors.
“Therefore, I have ordered that the inaugural address, in addition to prayers and speeches, be delivered in the rotunda of the United States Capitol, like the one Ronald Reagan used in 1985, also because of the very cold weather,” said. .
After that is the official farewell to the former president, Joe Biden, and the vice-president, Kamala Harris.
Trump will then head to the President’s Room near the Senate chamber, where it’s tradition to sign nominations.
Following the ceremony in the signing room, there will be a luncheon organized through the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies (JCCIC). Trump will then begin the presidential parade, which stretches from the Capitol on Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House, with a review of the troops.
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The parade will now take place indoors. “We will open Capital One Arena on Monday to view this historic occasion LIVE and host the presidential parade. “I will sign up for the crowd at Capital One after my inauguration,” Trump said in his Truth Social message.
“The (JCCIC) will honor the request of the president-elect and his Presidential Inauguration Committee to move the 60th Inauguration Ceremony inside the U. S. Capitol to the Rotunda,” the committee said in a Friday statement.
After the parade and a signing ceremony in the Oval Office, Trump will attend 3 inaugural balls: the Commander in Chief’s Ball, the Liberty Inaugural Ball, and the Starlight Ball. He is expected to deliver a speech at all three conferences, according to a news release.
The White House YouTube channel will livestream the event, which you can watch that day on nationalpost. com.
This year, the two dates coincide, as MLK Jr. Day is commemorated on the third Monday in January. The last time this happened was in 2013, at Barack Obama’s second inauguration. The only other time was in 1997, in Bill Clinton’s second term as president. MLK Jr. Day became a holiday in 1986.
Coincidentally, this year’s Inauguration Day also falls on “Blue Monday,” a term coined in 2005 by the British company Sky Travel as the most miserable day of the year.
It is short, simple, administered through the Chief Justice (John Roberts since 2005) and repeated through the president-elect. Pursuant to Article II, Section I of the United States Constitution, it reads: “I (name) solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and will use my most productive efforts to preserve, protect and protect the Constitution of the United States So I, God.
The presidential inaugural platform will host about 1,400 inaugural guests, including members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives, Supreme Court justices, as well as presidents, as well as Trump and his vice president, J. D. Vance, as well as their families.
Elon Musk, Trump’s best friend and Tesla CEO, will be in attendance, MSNBC reported, along with Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos.
Foreign visitors and dignitaries do not participate in the debates, but according to the Times of India, Trump’s second inauguration could include only several right-wing world leaders, including Italy’s Georgia Meloni. The news site says Trump also invited Jair Bolsonaro, the former president of Brazil who falsely claimed to have committed fraud in his country’s elections. According to The Guardian, Bolsonaro would not attend after a court ruled that his passport would not be returned to him as part of an ongoing investigation.
A spokesperson for the Argentine president, Javier Milei, told CBS News that the president plans to attend.
On Thursday, Meloni said, at a press conference in Rome, that she would “gladly participate” if her schedule would permit, The Guardian reported.
Hungarian Victor Orban, who had been invited, would be present, according to his spokesman, according to Euro News.
Trump has also invited Xi Jinping to the event, reports The Associated Press. But the Chinese leader is unlikely to attend. However, Vice-President Han Zheng will be in attendance, which will be a first for a senior member of the Chinese government, BBC reported.
Who will perform at Trump’s inauguration?
According to the Associated Press, country music star Carrie Underwood will perform America the Beautiful at the inauguration, and other characters will accompany two of the president-elect’s musical favorites, country singer Lee Greenwood and opera singer Christopher Macchio.
Trump’s last inauguration featured the less-than-famous Toby Keith, 3 Doors Down and The Piano Guys, while several very famous people (Elton John, The Beach Boys, Charlotte Church, Céline Dion etc.) have said they were asked and declined.
According to the JCCIC website, the theme of the 60th inaugural rite is “Our Enduring Democracy: A Constitutional Promise,” highlighting “the Founders’ commitment to future generations of Americans to preserve the continuity and stability of our formula for democratic government. ” .
There will be a grassroots march on January 18, organized through a coalition of feminist organizations including Abortion Action Now, SisterSong, Planned Parenthood, National Women’s Law Center and Women’s March. The National Action Network, the leadership of its president and fo, Rev. Al Sharpton, will hold a rally on MLK Jr. Day/Inauguration Day. And some Washingtonians reportedly pulled their Airbnb listings over the weekend in protests his opposition to Trump.
He did so, marking the first time an incumbent skipped the nomination of his successor since Andrew Johnson refused to attend Ulysses S. Grant’s first inauguration in 1869. Or as the JCCIC puts it somewhat delicately: ” This culture has endured, with few exceptions, since 1837, when Martin Van Buren and Andrew Jackson rode together in a wooden carriage of the United States Constitution.
Immediately. Trump has said he plans to sign a barrage of executive orders on “day one” of the new administration, and that’s Monday. While there’s no sign of him going through with the idea of having a “tiny desk” installed at the Capitol on Inauguration Day, as he mused during his presidential campaign, he will on his return to the White House immediately put his name to more than 100 items of paperwork, on topics that include border security, immigration (and deportation) and the economy. And, yes, that could include his threatened 25 per cent tariff on Canadian imports.
On Saturday, Jan. 18, there will be a presidential reception and fireworks at Trump National Golf Club in Virginia. There will also be a cabinet reception and a vice presidential dinner.
Sunday’s occasions will come with a wreath-laying rite at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery and, in another atmosphere, Trump’s “MAGA Victory Rally” at the Capital One Arena in Washington. There will also be a candlelight dinner.
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