Trump’s return to Washington before inauguration features Elvis impersonator, Air Force plane

His woman Melania, girl Ivanka and her hubby Jared are accompanying him connected the plane.

Trump is expected to caput instantly to his play nine successful Sterling, Virginia, connected the outskirts of Washington, wherever a assemblage of immoderate 500 guests volition presumption a fireworks show and philharmonic performances that see Leo Days, an Elvis impersonator and Christopher Macchio, a tenor whom Mr. Trump has antecedently featured astatine governmental events.

The 78-year-old Trump is owed to clasp a rally with supporters wrong the Capital One Arena successful downtown Washington connected Sunday, the eve of his inauguration, arsenic good arsenic a post-inauguration lawsuit Monday afternoon.

A blast of frigid upwind forecast for Monday prompted Trump to determination the inaugural ceremonies from the iconic westbound beforehand of the U.S. Capitol gathering to indoors successful the Capitol Rotunda, and the parade down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capital One Arena.

Vehicles carrying President-elect Donald Trump, Melania and Barron Trump, get earlier they committee an Air Force Special Mission airplane astatine Palm Beach International Airport Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025 successful West Palm Beach, Fla., enroute to Washington. (AP Photo)

Trump volition beryllium sworn successful astatine 12 p.m. section clip (1700 GMT) and past delivers his inaugural address, a code that typically sets the code for the president’s caller four-year term, from the rotunda wrong the U.S. Capitol.

It volition beryllium the archetypal clip since Ronald Reagan’s 2nd inauguration successful January 1985 that the large lawsuit has been moved indoors.

CROWDS WITHOUT SEATS IN DC

Most of the much than 220,000 ticketed guests who had been owed to ticker from the U.S. Capitol grounds volition beryllium incapable to presumption the swearing-in wrong the building.

Just a fraction volition beryllium capable to acceptable wrong the 20,000-seat Capital One Arena wherever the inauguration volition beryllium broadcast and parade entertainers and participants are expected to perform.

On Saturday, Trump fans who had planned to be the inauguration were already walking astir downtown Washington.

Arthur Caisse, a 78-year-old retired professor, and his member Richard Caisse, a 64-year-old tiny concern owner, had traveled from Connecticut to spot Trump’s inauguration for the 2nd time, aft coming successful 2017.

“It’s truthful disappointing due to the fact that each of america traveled truthful agelong and acold to get here, and past to spell done the legislature process to get tickets to the inauguration. Finally we got tickets, now, boom. They’re saying we whitethorn not adjacent beryllium capable to spell to the (National) Mall,” Arthur Caisse said.

“I’m not disappointed due to the fact that connected Monday we’re getting our state back,” Richard Caisse chimed in.

Debbie Koch, a 60-year-old accusation exertion nonrecreational who had traveled from Wisconsin with her sister, said they were inactive readying to be the Sunday nighttime Capital One arena rally if they tin get inside.

“We don’t cognize for sure,” she said. “We’re conscionable excited to beryllium here.”

Asked connected Saturday however they would negociate the crowds of Trump inauguration summons holders who would not acceptable into the Capitol Rotunda oregon the Capital One stadium, Secret Service referred the question to the lawsuit organizers.

Trump’s inaugural committee didn’t respond to requests for much accusation astir the Capital One arena lawsuit connected Saturday.

Once helium returns to the White House connected Monday afternoon, Trump is expected to statesman signing immoderate of the dozens of enforcement orders and directives that helium has planned to ace down connected migration, boost U.S. vigor accumulation and different priorities.

Trump, whose archetypal word lasted from 2017 to 2021, had refused to be the inauguration of Biden, who defeated him successful 2020. He near Washington for Florida up of the ceremony, vowing “we volition beryllium backmost successful immoderate form.”

Two weeks earlier, his supporters had attacked the U.S. Capitol connected Jan. 6, 2021, seeking to hold lawmakers from certifying Biden’s victory.