Donald Trump fans queue in freezing rain as inauguration change sees tickets cancelled

Tens of thousands of MAGA supporters person queued since the aboriginal greeting successful freezing and bedewed conditions to effort and nab a spot successful the Capital One Arena for Trump's triumph rally

Tens of thousands of disappointed fans, hoping to ticker the inauguration of Donald Trump time queued successful the freezing rainfall successful the hopes of catching a glimpse of the incoming president.

It came aft the ceremonial was moved wrong arsenic the US braces to beryllium deed by terrible wintertime weather. MAGA supportes began lining up arsenic aboriginal arsenic 4.30am, hoping to beryllium among the fortunate 20,000 allowed successful the Capital One Arena for the triumph rally.

Steve Bruckener, from Atlanta, Georgia, had travelled to Washington for the swearing-in ceremony, but aft the outdoor lawsuit was cancelled, helium queued to spot the president-elect. He told the Mirror : “I got successful enactment astatine 8am and convey goodness I did. An hr oregon truthful aboriginal and I deliberation 30,000 radical were successful queue. The antheral is that popular. We conscionable wanted to spot our President.”

Kristen Jameson, 28, arrived astatine 11am, hours earlier the doors opened, but said she had “no chance” of getting in. She said: “It's precise disappointing not to beryllium capable to spot President Trump. It conscionable goes to amusement however galore Americans emotion him.”

Trump is expected to telephone for "unity and strength" arsenic helium is sworn successful for his 2nd word arsenic US president - conscionable hours earlier helium begins deporting "millions" of undocumented immigrants. The president-elect was making the last changes to his inauguration code connected Sunday nighttime earlier retakes the Oval Office promising to transportation a "record-setting" fig of enforcement actions.

His code is acceptable to beryllium successful stark opposition to his 2017 address, which sparked bitter part crossed the States during his archetypal word and into Joe Biden's presidency. Trump, who volition beryllium the archetypal criminally convicted US person to clasp office, has said the cardinal taxable of his code volition beryllium "fairness."

"You person to beryllium treating radical fairly," helium said. "You can't conscionable say, 'Oh, everything's going to beryllium wonderful.' You know, we went done hellhole for 4 years with these people. And so, you know, thing has to beryllium done astir it. You can't person that happen, and we shouldn't person that happen."

Trump volition beryllium sworn successful arsenic the 47th president astatine noon (5pm UK time) successful a hurriedly arranged indoor ceremonial aft freezing temperatures cancelled the planned lawsuit connected the Capitol lawn. The alteration has near hundreds of thousands of summons holders incapable to ticker the historical event, sparking an exodus from Washington up of the swearing-in. The inauguration arsenic the country's 47th president was expected to beryllium an extravagant interruption from contented - earlier it got moved indoors owed to acold weather.