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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHouse Admin: "...alerting constituents that their Inauguration tickets are now simply "commemorative"
LOL!!
NEW: House administrator alerts Members of Congress about change to Inauguration ceremony -- and encourages Members to consider alerting constituents that their Inauguration tickets are now simply "commemorative"
Screwing over his followers on literal Day 1 is pretty perfect. It's downhill from here, folks.

Well, they can always storm the ceremony. They know the way.

skylucy
(3,935 posts)


nolabear
(43,730 posts)Some serious travel and lodging money is at stake.
Oh, and
malaise
(284,871 posts)😂😀😂
PoindexterOglethorpe
(27,913 posts)my experience is that the vast majority allow cancellation 24 hours before. Only when I've booked some extremely cheap deal are the rooms either non-refundable or have a fee.
spooky3
(37,539 posts)suspended the 24 hour cancellation policy, and the MAGAts staying in the high demand hotels are screwed.
Of course, many were probably staying further out and that would not apply.
The weather forecast (for bitter cold) has been unambiguous for a week - they should have gotten word out about the change of venue days ago. The only thing that wasn't clear was how much snow may fall Sunday. Where's that tiny violin again?
PoindexterOglethorpe
(27,913 posts)That this week the cancellation policies are somewhat different.
SeattleVet
(5,691 posts)Too bad; so sad.
spooky3
(37,539 posts)Crawford
(3 posts)karynnj
(60,314 posts)My husband and I are at an age, where we look for that. I suspect that many made cancellable flights and hotels before the election happened
I know at least one person did and cancelled days after the election. Because of it being a big deal, I suspect that people on both sides made reservations.
dweller
(26,647 posts)


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rainy
(6,286 posts)the embarrassment
BonnieJW
(2,913 posts)So the room will look like more people. He would never have been even close to filling the area in front.
jmowreader
(52,373 posts)I’m fairly sure they didn’t want Trump to go down in history as the second president to die a month after taking office, and that would have been a possibility if he’d given one of his three-hour stream-of-consciousness rants in the weather predicted for Monday.
FSogol
(47,371 posts)
Traildogbob
(11,263 posts)As those fucking digital macho picture cards they bought. They can tape tickets to those fucking Red Hats, to show MAGA status.
If ya got a ticket on your MAGA hat, you get a free paper cup at NASCAR events for a free water from a Water Fountain (but beware, those fountain’s have smokeless tobacco spit all over them)
BoRaGard
(5,671 posts)Surprise surprise.
William769
(58,869 posts)bee_peaceful
(82 posts)littlemissmartypants
(27,852 posts)Sensitivity to cold...
The impairment of temperature regulation due to dementia can have several significant implications and risks:
Hypothermia: Dementia may cause someone to become more susceptible to hypothermia, a condition where the body loses heat faster than it can produce it. Symptoms can include confusion, disorientation, and shivering, which can worsen existing cognitive challenges.
(...)
https://elderwelladultday.com/how-dementia-can-impair-the-bodys-ability-to-regulate-temperature/
Blue Dotty
(125 posts)and blame it on the weather.
yellow dahlia
(2,485 posts)Great minds.
BumRushDaShow
(154,018 posts)and then blast it out on RW loon social media to show "how many people came - even in the cold!!111!!!1".
BuddhaGirl
(3,670 posts)
Hassler
(4,365 posts)As the largest gathering since Woodstock, even bigger than Woodstock. Crowds the likes of which you can't believe.
Dave Bowman
(5,278 posts)Evolve Dammit
(20,740 posts)wnylib
(25,265 posts)Xipe Totec
(44,332 posts)Butterflylady
(4,433 posts)Meaning it's time for them to FAFO. And I'm laughing thru the whole thing.
calimary
(86,572 posts)But denial does run deep.
BumRushDaShow
(154,018 posts)
A rehearsal takes place in front of the U.S. Capitol ahead of the presidential inauguration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, in Washington, Jan. 12, 2025.
Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trumps-inauguration-moving-indoors-due-weather-sources/story?id=117792480
underpants
(190,969 posts)Diraven
(1,400 posts)When they all show up anyway and start a riot. And then blame it on Antifa.
Clouds Passing
(5,060 posts)Wiz Imp
(5,312 posts)People who booked non-cancellable or non-refundable hotel rooms are screwed somewhat, but I would think that doesn't apply to a lot of people - Tons of hotel rooms in the area were still available, waaayyy more than usual and that probably translates to lower prices for the people who did book hotel rooms too.
dem4decades
(12,825 posts)Him not giving them their chance to do so is screwing them. They better get used to it, it's only the start of Trump gathering with the well to do while leaving his idiot army out in the cold.
Wiz Imp
(5,312 posts)It appears they already knew crowds were going to be small which is probably one of the reasons they moved it inside.
Dem4life1970
(898 posts)for his MAGA cultists to watch on a jumbo tron. You know, like they could do in the warmth of their own living rooms.
Wiz Imp
(5,312 posts)(Note: Capital One Arena is an indoor facility)
"We will open Capital One Arena on Monday for LIVE viewing of this Historic event, and to host the Presidential Parade," Trump said in part. "I will join the crowd at Capital One, after my Swearing In."
Capital One Arena seats a maximum of 20,000 people. It's not yet clear how it will be determined who will be allowed into the arena and where people are expected to go if crowds exceed 20,000.
JCCIC recommended that those in town for the inauguration who are unable to attend find other indoor events to watch. The Presidential Inaugural Committee is designating certain places to watch and will provide more information.
It does not appear the National Mall will be one of those designated places, as some fencing there was starting to be dismantled Friday, according to a senior administration official with direct knowledge of the situation, and there are no current plans to broadcast any events on Jumbotrons there.
Dem4life1970
(898 posts)Wiz Imp
(5,312 posts)that makes absolutely no sense as a reply. Whatever.......
SeattleVet
(5,691 posts)so, yeah, he's screwing them over, at the very least.
The *big* screwing is coming over the next week or so, when they get to the 'Find Out' stage.
Wiz Imp
(5,312 posts)which is one of the reasons they agreed to move it inside where the small crowd optics won't be as obvious.
OAITW r.2.0
(30,374 posts)Raven123
(6,722 posts)The weather cooperated in giving him an excuse.
Good
Raven123
(6,722 posts)DENVERPOPS
(12,507 posts)from the impending minuscule crowd, because he would no longer be able to rant and rave about the biggest crowd EVER at an inauguration like he did when comparing his crowd to Obama's.
There are many who think he was also in fear that due to the cold, and male anatomy, that his teenie weenie peenie would shrink so much it would look like he had two belly buttons.....
Dem4life1970
(898 posts)and also the embarrassment of a tiny, mushroom sized crowd.
usaf-vet
(7,531 posts)..... while not actually getting shot, and with lots more blood..... how do they do that and sell it to millions who see it over and over?
Just asking.
SpankMe
(3,486 posts)I imagine a large number will still go to the national mall and party while democracy dies inside the capitol. They'll chant white supremacist slogans and use flames from burning crosses for their weenie roast - like a racist tailgate party. The inaug team will probably deploy a few displays close to the capitol or, at a minimum, loudspeakers so that citizens can hear their Nazi leader take the reins of our failing state. Few will cancel their flights and hotels.
I wonder how much money is saved by moving inside? I wonder where that unspent portion of the $200M inaug fund will go?
Trump missed a grift opportunity here: Trump-branded long underwear for the cold inauguration - made in China, of course - with built-in diapers. Trump-branded MAGA beanie caps with tin foil fibers woven in to block Democrat mind control. (We control the weather...why not the mind?) And Trump-branded gloves specially designed to be used for warmth during the day and for masturbation during the night.
I had read that some sickos were actually going to get married on the mall, during the ceremony, as a way to make the nuptials memorable.
The MAGA sickness never ends.
travelingthrulife
(2,514 posts)Dem4life1970
(898 posts)...while this is hilarious, that they would get their faces eaten on DAY ONE by the convicted felon Leopard, I was looking forward to mercilessly mocking (in about a week or a month's time to ensure his ratings are in the toilet of course) his teeny, tiny, mushroom sized crowd that shows up for the travesty of swearing this traitorous, insurrectionist back into office.
Dem4life1970
(898 posts)… David Axelrod noted that the windchill was 7 degrees at JFK’s inauguration, the same for Obama’s in 2009, and minus 2 for Reagan in 1985.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(10,389 posts)to death at Obama's first, but the chart here says it was a relatively toasty 28°F. However, I was just wondering about the wind chill. Seven sounds more like it!
JustAnotherGen
(35,281 posts)Storm the ceremony.
Faux pas
(15,708 posts)of shit.
B.See
(5,559 posts)an "act of God" if this were Biden or Harris.
Like the maga flags they want to fly on high (like Louisiana's governor), maybe Trump can "order" the weather warmer.
OAITW r.2.0
(30,374 posts)Marthe48
(20,763 posts)That ought to cut down mob size.
Traitor felon is off to a good start. Instead of enduring a few minutes of cold himself, he is screwing over his entire gang, except for the uber ultra oligarchs. Always room for them.
Then, he'll renege on one promise after another. If the broken campaign promises were punches to the face, his abused loyalists would look like they got hit by a truck.
oasis
(52,337 posts)“for me to poop on”
dlk
(12,654 posts)A life lesson for Trump supporters: grifters don’t discriminate; they stick it to everyone
Takket
(22,991 posts)just wait until they see how much $ they lose when the economy collapses under tariffs and lack of immigrant labor
Dem4life1234
(2,532 posts)Yet they have money to see this saggy scam artist?