Donald Trump drastically scaled back plans for his inauguration as hotel occupancies stalled just days ahead of his return to the White House.The president-elect was infamously touchy about the crowd size at his first inauguration in 2017, and hotel occupancy rates in Washington, D.C., are hovering...

Summary

Donald Trump has scaled back his second inauguration plans, moving the ceremony indoors to the Capitol Rotunda due to bitterly cold weather and lower-than-expected hotel occupancy rates in Washington, D.C.

Attendance for second-term inaugurations typically declines, with hotel occupancy at 74% compared to higher rates in 2017.

  • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
    6·
    3 hours ago

    That’s the problem with surrounding yourself with billionnaire sycophants: there’s only so many billionnaires to create a crowd. But it’s much easier to make it look like a bigger crowd in an enclosed space.

    It’s too bad the weather provides a genuine excuse to move the proceedings indoors, because even if it was 70 degrees, he’d still do it and then it would be obvious why.

        • CitizenKong@lemmy.world
          5·
          1 hour ago

          And only Roosevelt was younger at 42. In comparison, Obama was 47, Bush 54, Clinton 46 and Carter 52.

          The “old fart” trend was started by Trump, who was already the oldest president at the start of his term last time. Then Biden was the oldest and now it’s Trump again.

  • superkret@feddit.org
    3·
    3 hours ago

    Interesting that in his concern for who might get hurt, he lists police dogs and “even horses” before civilians.

    • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
      4·
      2 hours ago

      he lists police dogs

      Not quite: the article says “police K9s”. Because as we all know, stupid acronyms are much more sensitive to cold than regular words.

  • unmagical@lemmy.ml
    6·
    4 hours ago

    It’ll be the biggest crowd ever all crammed in that confined space. Not even Obama had crowds as big as this one!