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How Moving Trump’s Inauguration Inside Spurred An All-Out Scramble

Navin Adhari takes down chairs that he and others had previously set up for the inauguration after it was announced Friday that the event would move indoors because of weather. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)

President-elect Donald Trump on Friday ordered his inauguration moved indoors for the first time in four decades, a sudden weather-induced change that forced a scramble for hundreds of thousands of people who had spent months planning for the swearing-in of the nation’s 47th president.

Law enforcement officials called emergency meetings. Members of Congress learned about the change in the media, then fielded hundreds of calls from confused constituents who had tickets to the festivities. Workers inside the Capitol Rotunda, where Trump will now take the oath of office, quickly got to work assembling a new podium. And scores of people from across the country who had bought flights and booked hotels reconsidered their trips to the nation’s capital.
“I wasn’t worried at all,” said Shanon Randel Holm, a 41-year-old from Tampa, who had ordered ski pants and ice grips for the bottom of his shoes. He was scheduled to fly to D.C. on Saturday. “I figured it gets cold up north.”
“I don’t want to see people hurt, or injured, in any way,” Trump wrote. “Everyone will be safe, everyone will be happy, and we will, together, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

The 220,000 tickets distributed by the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, a bipartisan group responsible for planning the event, will now be “commemorative,” the House Sergeant at Arms said in an email Friday to lawmakers and Hill staff, adding that “the majority of ticketed guests will not be able to attend the ceremonies in person.” The Capital One Arena, where Trump said supporters could watch the swearing-in, can seat up to 20,000.

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