Presidential inaugurations have been moved indoors several times due to bitter cold. It happened most recently in 1985 as Reagan began his second term.
Chilly temperatures pushed President-elect Donald Trump's second inauguration indoors, a rare but not unprecedented move.
The decision to move Monday’s event indoors marks the first time in 40 years that such a change has been made.
President-elect Donald Trump announced that he has ordered his inauguration ceremony to move inside the U.S. Capitol rotunda on Monday, Jan. 20, due to dangerously cold weather
Donald Trump has been robbed of a huge swearing-in ceremony after his inauguration was moved indoors due to dangerously freezing temperatures
President-elect Donald Trump is scheduled to be inaugurated Monday in Washington, D.C. The swearing-in ceremony for Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance has been moved inside the U.S. Capitol due to the freezing temperatures forecast in the nation’s capital.
The coldest inauguration on record was President Ronald Reagan’s second swearing-in ceremony in January 1985, when the temperature was 7 degrees, followed by President Ulysses Grant’s ceremony in 1873 at 16 degrees and President John F. Kennedy’s ceremony in 1961 at 22 degrees.
The high temperature for the day is projected to be below freezing, at 24 degrees, and could drop to a low of 9.