{"id":58032,"date":"2025-01-18T10:33:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T10:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=58032"},"modified":"2025-01-18T10:33:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T10:33:40","slug":"good-call-to-move-inaugural-indoors-however","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=58032","title":{"rendered":"Good call to move inaugural indoors, however …"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The decision to move the Monday presidential inaugural indoors is a good call for one obvious reason: it protects spectators and participants from the bitter cold expected to slam into the nation’s capital this weekend.<\/p>\n

They’re going to open the Rotunda to the event that will feature Donald John Trump taking the oath of office for president. The Rotunda has a capacity of a couple hundred people. Which brings me to another, less obvious, issue related to the inaugural.<\/p>\n

Moving the event indoors removes a discussion topic from the table: the size of the crowd gathered to witness it.<\/p>\n

Or does it … ?<\/p>\n

In 2017, Trump offered yet another obvious lie by saying his inaugural crowd set a record. Photographic evidence of the Mall crowd told a different story. The first Barack Obama presidential inaugural crowd in 2009 was far larger; for that matter, the second Obama inaugural in 2013 drew a larger crowd than Trump’s. Yet, Trump was having none of it.<\/p>\n

Why is this important for today? I am waiting for ways that Trump will spin the interest in his inaugural crowd into something that won’t exist. I am all but certain he and his PR team will find a way to suggest that the “waiting list” for tickets to related inaugural events will soar into the millions of Americans.<\/p>\n

Of course, none of this matters in the grand scheme of events. It will matter only if Trump and his team make a big deal out of it. I expect them fully to fixate on the trivial … which is what the narcissist in chief would require them to do.<\/p>\n\n

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