🔵 Inauguration Day

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Citizen Frank
January 20, 2025

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The big day has arrived: Donald Trump’s second inauguration is set to begin.

After weeks of preparation, the day’s events are all in place, though some last-minute changes were made after it was announced Friday that the icy cold front moving toward the D.C. region would shift ceremonies inside.

“The weather forecast for Washington, D.C., with the windchill factor, could take temperatures into severe record lows … I don’t want to see people hurt, or injured in any way,” the president-elect said in a statement Friday. “Therefore, I have ordered the Inauguration Address, in addition to prayers and other speeches, to be delivered in the United States Capitol Rotunda, as was used by Ronald Reagan in 1985.”

President-elect Trump on Sunday rallied with supporters in Washington, D.C., on the eve of his second inauguration, taking a victory lap and teasing an expected barrage of activity on his first day in office.

Here are the top takeaways from Trump’s rally at Capital One Arena.

Trump takes victory lap

The president-elect opened his rally by simply declaring to the crowd, “We won.”

President-elect Donald Trump will issue a flurry of executive orders right after being sworn in on Jan. 20.

Stephen Miller, Trump’s immigration adviser, reportedly outlined some of Trump’s prospective measures in a meeting with Senate Republicans earlier this month. On its first day, the Trump White House could issue more than 100 executive orders, with a particular focus on the border.

Those first few hours and the days to come could see an unprecedented surge of ambitious executive actions, ranging from reversals of Biden-era border policies to an order against online censorship.

Tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, who was tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to co-chair the newly created Department of Government Efficiency, is now expected to abandon his post at the organization, according to a report.

CBS News reported on Sunday that people close to Elon Musk, who is the other co-chair, at DOGE have been flouting Ramaswamy’s co-leadership due to frustration that he isn’t keeping up with his share of the work at the organization.

There has also been tension between the rank-and-file and Ramaswamy, the outlet said, citing sources familiar with the dynamics of DOGE.

President-elect Donald Trump, on Day 1, plans to suspend security clearances of the 51 intelligence officials who claimed reporting tied to Hunter Biden’s laptop had “the classic earmarks” of Russian disinformation ahead of the 2020 election, according to a report.

Trump will repeal the clearances of the so-called “Spies Who Lie” as part of a flurry of executive orders he’s expected to sign on his first day back in the Oval Office, Fox News reported, citing a senior administration official familiar with the matter.

Federal authorities eventually confirmed that the laptop belonging to President Biden’s son was authentic, though the national security experts have said they stand by the 2020 letter they penned over their concerns of disinformation.

In huge pre-inauguration news, Elon Musk is slated to be the highest bidder on D.C.’s trendy Line hotel. The recently inducted member of President-elect Donald Trump’s billionaire boys club plans to turn the desirable Northwest digs with 220 rooms into a “private social club” of sorts, according to multiple sources familiar with the deal.

A previously announced public auction for the former church-turned-posh property (1770 Euclid Street NW) is scheduled for Thursday, January 23 — just three days after Musk’s BFF reassumes power in the same city. Musk is poised to lead the newly coined Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) once Trump moves back into the White House.

The high-profile CEO is behind behemoth brands like rocket-blasting SpaceX, e-car company Tesla, and the social media platform formerly known as Twitter (X), so it would only make sense that he wants to try the hospitality industry on for size next.

Tech billionaire and lifelong Democrat Mark Pincus said during an interview this week that seeing how the mainstream media would lie or hide the truth from the public led to a “red pill moment.”

Pincus made the remarks during an episode of “The All-In Podcast” this week while discussing how he would read blogs that would reveal information faster than mainstream media and would often contradict what was being reported.

“I started feeling more uncomfortable and queasy with what was going on with mainstream media,” he said after coming across multiple examples of mainstream publications hiding information from the public.

Melania Trump has launched her own meme coin, $MELANIA, following her husband’s new cryptocurrency.

“The Official Melania Meme is live! You can buy $MELANIA now,” Melania Trump posted on the social platform X on Sunday.

The website for the coin describes “Melania Memes” as “fungible crypto assets created and tracked on the Solana blockchain.”

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