WASHINGTON: Hundreds of Donald Trump’s supporters waited for hours within the chilly and rain to attend his victory rally on Sunday (Jan 19), a day earlier than the president-elect returns to power with plans to aggressively reshape US immigration and commerce coverage.
The Republican, 78, positioned a wreath first on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington Nationwide Cemetery on Sunday earlier than making his first main speech in Washington since a Jan 6, 2021, rally together with his supporters that preceded the storming of the US Capitol. Trump saluted the tomb as a army bugler performed “Faucets.”
The “Make America Nice Once more Victory Rally” was as a result of begin at 3pm ET (4am, Singapore time) at Capital One Area, an indoor hockey and basketball stadium and the venue for a few of Monday’s inauguration festivities after forecasts of bitter chilly prompted officers to cancel a deliberate outside celebration.
The road of supporters, many wearing Trump’s trademark pink jackets and MAGA hats, stretched over a number of downtown Washington blocks. Some chanted “USA! USA!” and others spoke over megaphones whereas they waited to be allowed in.
Val Tordjman, 58, had traveled throughout the nation from Denver with tickets to look at the inauguration. When he heard it was being moved indoors, he mentioned, “I felt like crying.”
Tordjman mentioned he deliberate to spend the evening on the road subsequent to the sector, regardless of temperatures forecast to plunge to round -7 levels Celsius. He mentioned he had but to see Trump in individual.
“It is a as soon as in a lifetime alternative,” he mentioned.
Giant swaths of the town across the US Capitol and White Home have been blocked off by metal fences since final week and there was a heightened police presence all through the realm.
