Donald Trump inauguration rally chaos as thousands queue in snow while President dances to YMCA

The 47th president-elect swayed and pumped his fists to the 1978 disco deed YMCA with the Village People - portion thousands his supporters were near queing successful the freezing cold

Thousands of Trump supporters were pelted with snow as they queued for hours to get into the President's triumph rally - portion helium danced connected signifier with the Village People.

The 47th president-elect swayed and pumped his fists to the 1978 disco deed YMCA - a tune that has go an anthem for the MAGA campaign, playing astatine astir each of Trump's rallies. But extracurricular Washington’s Capital One Arena connected Sunday, thousands of his supporters were covered successful snowfall arsenic they waited for up to 10 hours successful sub-zero temperatures to drawback a glimse of each the action.

Trump’s Sunday rally, held a time earlier his Inauguration, saw tens of thousands of radical instrumentality to the queues - with galore failing to make it into the arena connected clip and others simply abandoning the agelong hold to spell location and defrost.

One Trump protagonist and his woman stood waiting for 10 hours arsenic snowfall battered Washington DC and sent temperatures plumetting to -1C. The mates told news.com.au that they were inactive 7 blocks distant from the lawsuit erstwhile Trump took to the stage, and faced different 2 hr hold earlier making it to the entranceway of the Capital One Arena.

“There were radical cutting successful the enactment and the constabulary conscionable threw their hands up successful the air,” the Florida man, who chose not to stock his name, said. “And past determination were the alleged tickets, which they’re not adjacent checking connected the door”.

MAGA supporters besides had nary entree to loos on the route, causing java shops to capable up. Outside, rainfall and hailstones fell connected crowds - who ran to instrumentality structure successful restaurants and shops successful a bid to enactment dry. Several 1000 were inactive near freezing connected the thoroughfare arsenic the rally began, including those who arrived arsenic aboriginal arsenic 7am.

“This has been a classical bait and switch,” fumed 1 Trump supporter, who took to the queues with his woman and teenage son. The household abandoned the hold by 5pm, conscionable arsenic Trump was astir to instrumentality to the stage. “We thought the tickets were tickets but they’re not, they’re conscionable truthful they could get a headcount”.

A giant surface was erected extracurricular which relayed the President's code to unlucky fans who couldn't marque it into the arena connected time.

Tens of thousands of radical – each with tickets and confirmation texts – are believed to person missed retired connected the event.