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The inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance will be moved indoors to the Capitol Rotunda on Monday because frigid temperatures are expected in the nation’s capital.
It’s set to be the coldest inauguration day in four decades.
“I have ordered the Inauguration Address, in addition to prayers and other speeches, to be delivered in the United States Capitol Rotunda, as was used by Ronald Reagan in 1985, also because of very cold weather,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Friday.
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who has overseen a number of January 6 cases, said during a sentencing hearing Friday that her recent visit to the Capitol served as a reminder that “people came in and desecrated that beautiful space,” Politico reported.
This comes as South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem – Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Homeland Security and best known for bragging about shooting dead her dog Cricket in her memoir – was pressed by senators at her confirmation hearing on Friday on whether she would dare stand up to the president-elect if he threatened to withhold federal disaster relief funding from blue states.
Noem suggested she would adhere to the law while adding that “leadership has consequences”.
WATCH: Kristi Noem Pressed On Role Of Trump Border Czar Tom Homan
Gustaf Kilander17 January 2025 21:00
‘People came in and desecrated that beautiful space’
On Monday, Trump will be inaugurated in the Capitol Rotunda, where his supporters laid siege to the Congress just four years previously.
On Friday, one of the participants in the riot, Brian Kelly, was sentenced to 10 days in prison by U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, according to Politico.
“I only wish the rest of the country could see some of the things I see,” she said before handing down the sentence.
“This may be, based on what happens outside these courthouse walls, the last one of these. I don’t know,” she added.
Chutkan noted she had never been to the Capitol before paying her respects during the lying-in-state of President Jimmy Carter. After overseeing a number of January 6 cases, she said the visit was a reminder that “people came in and desecrated that beautiful space.”
Gustaf Kilander17 January 2025 20:40
Rapper Nelly to perform at a Donald Trump’s inaugural ball
According to sources close to the event planning, the 50-year-old artist will join the Village People and country star Jason Aldean as the entertainment for the night, CBS reported.
Nelly previously confessed he didn’t care for Trump in 2017 amid his first term. “You know the thing about Donald Trump is that I liked Donald Trump, I did, I just don’t like Donald Trump as my president,” he told Page Six at the time. “He doesn’t surprise me as a person, he surprises me as a president because you don’t expect certain things, certain attitudes.”
Kaleigh Werner17 January 2025 20:20
Trump sticking with fire-ravaged Los Angeles for Olympics despite calls from GOP to move it to a red-state
Donald Trump has vowed to keep the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, despite calls from Republicans to move the games to a red state in the wake of the city’s devastating wildfires.
The president-elect promised to make the competition “the greatest Games” and said that they were “more important than ever to LA,” as city authorities continue to deal with the fallout from the blazes, which have so far claimed the lives of at least 25 people across southern California.
“These are America’s Olympics,” Trump said, according to Casey Wasserman, chairman of the LA 2028 organizing committee, who met with the president-elect at Mar-a-Lago on Wednesday.
Wesserman told Axios that Trump had added: “These are more important than ever to LA and I’m going to be supportive in every way possible to make them the greatest Games.”
Joe Sommerlad17 January 2025 20:00
Tim Walz mocks Trump for moving inauguration indoors
Gustaf Kilander17 January 2025 19:40
‘The Equal Rights Amendment belongs in our Constitution,’ Harris says
Senator Kristen Gillibrand, who launched a one-woman lobbying effort to convince Joe Biden to get the Equal Rights Amendment into the Constitution, told reporters Friday that the president’s announcement today “superseded” the national archivist, which is responsible for physically amending it.
“The only thing we have to do now is enforce what is the 28th amendment to the constitution,” she said.
The archivist’s role is a “ministerial” one, and “she has no constitutional role and no right to insert herself into the constitutional process.”
“He has just done her job for her. He is her boss,” she said. “He issued the statement that it is the law of the land … He’s done it for her.”
Equality is a fundamental promise of our democracy. That is why the Equal Rights Amendment belongs in our Constitution. It makes our nation stronger, and it is the law of the land because the American people have spoken in states across our nation.
History teaches us that civil rights are fought for and won with every generation. That continues to be true today, which is why I have spent my career fighting for freedoms and to expand opportunities for women and girls. It has always been clear that when we lift up women, we lift up children, families, communities, and all of society. Now, Americans must continue to fight for a more equal and just nation where everyone has the opportunity to realize the promise of America.
Vice President Kamala Harris
Alex Woodward17 January 2025 19:20
Georgia Court of Appeals reject attempt by Fulton prosecutors to restore counts removed from indictment against Trump and others
Gustaf Kilander17 January 2025 19:00
Trump’s DOGE co-chair Vivek Ramaswamy reportedly announcing campaign for Ohio governor
Ramaswamy — who was reportedly considering a run for J.D. Vance’s open U.S. Senate seat, with Trump’s encouragement — is expected to announce a campaign to replace the state’s term-limited Republican Governor Mike DeWine, according toThe Washington Post.
On Friday, DeWine is expected to tap the state’s Lt. Gov Jon Husted to fill the vacant Senate seat, after Vance’s resignation to serve as vice president under Trump.
Alex Woodward17 January 2025 18:40
Live: Biden gives final speech at mayor’s conference
Gustaf Kilander17 January 2025 18:32
Ohio Governor announces Lt Gov Jon Husted as Vance replacement in Senate
Gustaf Kilander17 January 2025 18:29