A examine in contrasts in protection of the inauguration.
On Fox Information, host Harris Faulkner spoke of Trump supporters filling the streets of D.C. in celebration. The anchor could also be taking part in to the information channel’s core viewers. As Joe Biden and Donald Trump traveled by motorcade to the Capitol, cameras confirmed only a few individuals alongside the sidewalks, on a cold and icy D.C. morning. Army and legislation enforcement personnel far outnumbered residents.
On MSNBC, Pleasure Reid centered on the absence of Karen Pence, although her husband, former Vice President Mike Pence, is attending. “Karen Pence, if you’re watching at dwelling, God bless you,” Reid mentioned. Karen Pence has made clear she has no time for her husband’s former boss after the January 6 MAGA mob threatened to hold the then VP. Additionally absent: Former First Girl Michelle Obama.
Tech CEOs Get Selection Spots In Capitol Rotunda, 7:52 a.m. PT: Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos are among the many tech trade titans who have been noticed on the Capitol for the swearing in ceremony.
They, together with different tech CEOs, are anticipated to get the choicest of seating: Within the Rotunda, the place house is extraordinarily restricted and largely put aside for members of Congress. Noticed there have been Elon Musk, Apple CEO Tim Prepare dinner and Alphabet’s Sundar Pichai, together with Rupert Murdoch and Joe Rogan.
Different friends are being seated in Emancipation Corridor, a part of the White Home Customer Heart, the place they may watch the ceremony on massive screens. Additionally noticed on the Capitol: TikTok CEO Shou Chew, as Trump has mentioned he’ll signal an government order to attempt to delay congressional laws to ban it.
Amongst these noticed in Emancipation Corridor: Sam Altman, Logan and Jake Paul, Conor McGregor, Theo Von and Danica Patrick.
Joe Biden And Donald Trump Depart White Home For Swearing In Ceremony, 7:40 a.m. PT: President Joe Biden departed the White Home with Donald Trump on their method to the Capitol for the swearing in ceremony.
Biden informed reporters that he left a letter for the incoming president, however declined to say what the contents have been. “That’s between Trump and me.”
The experience down Pennsylvania Avenue, usually with bitter rivals, is yet one more longtime custom of the switch of energy, one which didn’t occur 4 years in the past as Trump declined to take part.
The Bidens posted one final selfie earlier than their farewell.
First Girl Jill Biden and Melania Trump additionally traveled collectively, as did Vice President Kamala Harris and JD Vance.
The Bidens Greet The Trumps At White Home, 7:22 a.m. PT: President Joe Biden and First Girl Jill Biden greeted Donald Trump and Melania Trump on the White Home for a morning tea, persevering with a symbolic gesture within the switch of energy.
The 2 {couples} stood briefly for a photograph, with a cold wind blowing on the north finish of the White Home. Biden and Trump will quickly journey to the Capitol for the swearing in ceremony.
“Welcome dwelling,” Biden mentioned to Trump after he acquired out of his black SUV, per a pool report.
Earlier, reporters requested Biden what his message was for the day. “Pleasure,” Biden mentioned.
The custom is one which Trump denied Biden 4 years in the past, following the January sixth assault on the Capitol. Trump nonetheless insists, falsely, that the 2020 election was stolen from him.
Earlier, Vice President Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff welcomed JD Vance and Usha Vance.
Donald Trump Attends St. John’s Church Companies, 6:08 a.m. PT: President-elect Donald Trump and Melania Trump kicked off Inauguration Day with a longtime custom: Attending companies at St. John’s Episcopal Church throughout Lafayette Sq..
Trump was joined by Vice President-elect JD Vance and his spouse Usha, and amongst these attending have been the leaders of the tech giants: Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta; Jeff Bezos, the founding father of Amazon, and fiance Lauren Sanchez; Apple CEO Tim Prepare dinner; X’s proprietor Elon Musk; and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai. Additionally current: Rupert Murdoch, TikTok CEO Shou Chew; UFC’s Dana White, podcast host Joe Rogan, and Boris Johnson, the previous British prime minister, per a pool report.
The temperature in Washington this morning is 24 levels, with the windchill even decrease and a light-weight snow on the bottom, a purpose why Trump determined to maneuver the swearing in ceremony indoors. That set off a scramble for seats, because the Capitol Rotunda, the place the ceremony will happen, solely holds a couple of thousand individuals.
Donald Trump arrives at St. John’s Church together with Melania Trump. Mark Zuckerberg is within the background. (Picture by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Photographs)
St. John’s, generally known as the church of presidents, holds significance from the primary Trump time period. It’s the place Trump held up a Bible after strolling with members of his administration from the White Home. It was amid 2020 protests and riots following the dying of George Floyd, and moments earlier, authorities from Park Police had cleared the world of demonstrators.
The service lasted for about 25 minutes and completed with a rendition of “America the Lovely.”
Earlier, the Trump group launched some excerpts of what he would say in his inaugural handle to The Wall Road Journal. Trump plans to proclaim a “new period of nationwide success” and name for a “revolution of frequent sense.”
Meta and Fb CEO Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Google Sundar Pichai, CEO of Apple Tim Prepare dinner, Founding father of Amazon and Blue Origin Jeff Bezos attend companies as a part of Inauguration ceremonies at St. John’s Church. (Picture by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Photographs)
Picture by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Photographs
“My message to People immediately is that it’s time for us to as soon as once more act with braveness, vigor and the vitality of historical past’s best civilization,” Trump will say, per the Journal.
The president is predicted to signal dozens of government orders immediately — greater than 200, per Fox Information, together with these coping with the border and immigration, the federal workforce and oil drilling. One government order will carry an electrical automobile mandate, one of many signature efforts of the Biden administration to deal with local weather change.
