NARRATIVE – Donald Trump is back in Washington in a very different atmosphere from that of 2017. Trump is also better prepared to exercise power. Less than ten years after his burst onto the political scene, he has changed less than he has changed America.
Protesters gathered Saturday in front of the Lincoln Memorial and on the snow-covered National Mall had neither the energy nor the numbers of the crowds that protested Donald Trump in 2017. A few thousand activists, pro-abortion signs, loudspeakers and pink bonnets, which quickly dispersed. Eight years after Trump’s first inauguration, his re-election has left his opponents stunned. The sky in Washington was cloudy and the atmosphere gloomy for his return to a federal capital that he never liked, and which never loved him.
The thousands of folding chairs lined up in anticipation of his inauguration were being put away after Trump’s announcement that the ceremony would be held under the Capitol rotunda due to the forecast cold snap. The approximately 250,000 expected spectators will have to follow the swearing-in of the new president on television, surrounded by his guests of honor and his new court of billionaires.
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