This time, the swearing in of Donald Trump returning to the White home after 4 years of break will look different than the last time America witnessed the fresh president taking office.
Washington is preparing for the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, which will take place on Monday 20 January. safety is intended to supply a temporary peculiar black barrier of 48 km long, 25,000 law enforcement officers, safety checkpoints set to defend hundreds of thousands of spectators, and even garbage trucks.
The oath and parade, which due to the forecasted cold weather for the first time since 1985 will be held not before the Capitol, but in the Capitol rotunda and Capital 1 Arena respectively, will follow the weekend of protests by opponents Donald Trump and Republican supporters parties and rallies. U.S. events are accompanied by tension and safety concerns — during the presidential run Trump was twice the mark of the bombing.There were besides 2 attacks on Americans in fresh Year.
One of them killed 14 people and tens were injured erstwhile a veteran of the U.S. Army drove a pick-up into a crowd of feasters on fresh Orleans' fresh Year's Eve. On the same day, an active American Army soldier detonated Tesla Cybertruck in front of the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas in an act of suicide. "We are in an increased emergency situation," said US peculiar Agent Matt McCool at a press conference, according to News.ro.
Trump's oath to the Capitol
The appropriate inauguration, during which Trump will be formally sworn in in in the presence of members of Congress, the ultimate Court, the fresh administration and hundreds of thousands of others, will take place at the Capitol.
This is it. January 6, 2021, thousands of Trump supporters broke the windows, fought the police and forced congressmen to flee in fear of their lives, trying to overthrow the 2020 defeat with Democratic president Joe Biden.
Trump's rivalry in the 2024 election, Democratic Vice president Kamala Harris, recognized its defeat in the 5 November election, as opposed to Trump, who inactive falsely claims his failure in the 2020 election was the consequence of fraud.
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images / Getty ImagesKamala Harris
Risk of mimic attacks
Security officials have said that they are unaware of any circumstantial coordinated threats to inauguration. However, they are worried about “lone wolves”, specified as the fresh Orleans striker or 2 fresh separate incidents. It is about arresting 2 men — 1 for attempting to smuggle a machete into the Capitol and the another for attempting to set fire close the building.
— This threat from a single-handed attacker remains the top justification for keeping us on advanced alert for a full week," said police chief at the Capitol Thomas Manger during safety briefing. Earlier this week The FBI and Homeland safety have warned the police nationwide of the hazard of “receptive” attacks akin to the fresh Orleans incident.
Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images / Getty ImagesPreparations for the inauguration of Donald Trump at the Capitol, Washington, 17 January 2025.
National Guard, agents and fence
A large part of Washington city centre — about 3.5 km from the White home to the Capitol — will be closed to circular traffic, and entry points will be blocked by concrete barriers, garbage trucks, and another dense objects.
According to officials, a 48-km black barrier of 2.4 m in tallness designed to prevent climbing it will be the longest always erected in Washington DC. Additionally, about 7.8,000 National defender soldiers and 4,000 agents brought from another police departments across the country will strengthen security.
While any city residents, in which 90% of voters voted for Kamala Harris, were preparing to leave for the weekend or stay home to avoid traffic jams, tens of thousands of people are expected to arrive in downtown Washington for celebrations and protests.
About 70% of the 34,500 hotel rooms in Washington were booked for the night of the inauguration and the night before last week, according to data provided by Smith Travel investigation and made available to the Reuter Agency by Destination DC, Washington's authoritative tourist organization. The location of the hotels amounted to 95% for Trump's inauguration in 2017 and 78% for the second inauguration of erstwhile president Barack Obama in 2013.
Andrew Harnik/Getty Images / Getty ImagesA peculiar safety barrier set up in Washington, DC, close Capitol in connection with the swearing-in of Donald Trump to the 47th president of the United States
Marches and rallies
Trump's inauguration in 2017 was marked by mass protests and counter-protests. His erstwhile spokesman, Sean Spicer, began his term, claiming, contrary to photographic evidence, that the crowd on the National Mall lawn was “the largest crowd always to participate in the inauguration — period.”
The women’s march the next day attracted hundreds of thousands of people to the streets of Washington, D.C., and even more to solidarity events across the country. A much smaller crowd — estimated at 25,000 people — is scheduled to take part in a Saturday march against Trump in Washington, D.C., said Pamela Smith, chief of metropolitan police.
In addition, thousands of people are to attend 12 another protests or rallies that local authorities have authorized from Saturday to Monday, including Trump's rally at Capital 1 Arena with a capacity of 20,000 seats to be held on Sunday.
Preparations for worst-case scenario
Juliette Kayyem, a prof. at Harvard Kennedy School, who was a national safety authoritative in the Obama administration, said that the authorities seem to follow standard planning and preparation practice for all possibilities.
— They're getting ready for the worst-case scenario, but I have a feeling it's not gonna happen, so that's okay," Kayy said. “ erstwhile it comes to planning, it is always better to be prepared besides much than not enough,” she stressed.
