WASHINGTON — Donald Trump arrived in Washington Saturday ahead of his second inauguration as president, four years after he departed the city under the shadow of an attack by his supporters on the Capitol.
Trump boarded a U.S. military C-32 aircraft late Saturday afternoon in West Palm Beach, Florida, with his wife Melania Trump and their son Barron, on a flight dubbed Special Air Mission 47 — a nod to Trump becoming the 47th president on Monday.
It’s a courtesy that's traditionally extended by the outgoing administration to the incoming one. Trump did not make a government plane available to President Joe Biden ahead of his inauguration in 2021, and instead the Democrat flew to Washington on a privately chartered aircraft.
Trump's celebration of his return to power was scheduled to get underway Saturday evening with a fireworks showcase at his Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia, about 30 miles outside Washington.
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With a blast of Arctic air expected to leave the nation's capital facing frigid temperatures on Inauguration Day, organizers scrambled to move inside most of Monday's outdoor events, including the swearing-in ceremony in the Capitol rotunda.
President-elect Donald Trump waves Saturday as he, Melania Trump, left, and Barron Trump board an Air Force Special Mission airplane at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Fla.
"I think we made the right decision. We'll be very comfortable now," Trump told NBC ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ in a phone interview Saturday.
Meanwhile, thousands of people from around the United States rallied in the nation's capital for women's reproductive rights and other causes they believe are under threat from the incoming Trump administration, reprising the original Women's March.
Eight years after the first historic Women's March at the start of Trump's first term, marchers said they are determined to show that support remains strong for women’s access to abortion, for transgender people, for fighting climate change and other issues.
The march is just one of several protests, rallies and vigils focused on abortion, rights, immigration rights and the Israel-Hamas war planned in advance of inauguration Monday. Around the country, over 350 similar marches are taking place in every state.
With the Washington Monument in the background, demonstrators protest President-elect Donald Trump's incoming administration Saturday at the Lincoln Memorial during the People's March in Washington.
Melody Hamoud, a Washington resident, wore a pink hat that she had on at a 2017 march to protest Trump's first inauguration.
"I just didn't want to sit home and fret in front of the TV," she said. "I wanted to feel like our movement still has energy and be around others who felt the same."
Jill Parrish of Austin, Texas, said she initially bought a plane ticket to Washington for what she expected to be Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris's inauguration. She wound up changing the dates to march in protest ahead of Trump's swearing-in instead, saying the world should know that half of U.S. voters didn't support Trump.
“Most importantly, I’m here to demonstrate my fear, about the state of our democracy," Parrish said.
Women outraged over Trump's 2016 presidential win flocked to Washington in 2017 and organized large rallies in cities throughout the country, building the base of a grassroots movement that became known as the Women's March.
The Washington rally alone attracted more than 500,000 marchers, and millions more participated in local marches around the country, marking one of the largest single-day demonstrations in U.S. history.
Demonstrators protest President-elect Donald Trump's incoming administration Saturday during the People's March in Washington.
This year, the crowd was far fewer than the expected 50,000 participants, already just one-tenth the size of the first march.
Timothy Wallis, 58, flew in for the inauguration from Pocatello, Idaho, with friends. The group had tickets to watch the ceremony outside but haven't been able to get tickets to any of the indoor events.
"We found out on the plane," he said about the change of plans.
Wallis said he was disappointed about the switch and a little bemused since he's used to cold at home.
"We left snow to come here," he said. "I brought my gloves!"
Trump, a Republican, left office in 2021 after his refusal to accept his loss to Democrat Joe Biden led a mob to overrun the Capitol. He then broke tradition by skipping Biden's inauguration.
Biden will adhere to one of the most potent symbols of the democratic handover, welcoming Trump to the White House and joining him on the ride to the Capitol before Trump takes the oath of office.
Organizers work Saturday to move the Inauguration Day swearing-in ceremony into the Capitol rotunda due to expected frigid weather in Washington.
The first time Trump was sworn into office eight years ago, the former reality TV star came in as an outsider disrupting Washington's norms, delivering a dark inaugural address as his swearing-in drew large protests and some clashes in the street.
This time, Trump told NBC, the theme of his inauguration speech would be "unity and strength, and also the word 'fairness.'"
As one more marker of Trump's remarkable comeback, the events surrounding his inauguration will be more celebrity-studded than the last time, along with a noticeable turnout by a cadre of tech-world billionaires.
Country music stars Carrie Underwood, Billy Ray Cyrus and Jason Aldean, disco band the Village People, rapper Nelly and musician Kid Rock are all scheduled to perform at inauguration-related ceremonies and events.
Actor Jon Voight and wrestler Hulk Hogan are also expected to make appearances, as are a crew of Trump-embracing business executives: Tesla and X CEO Elon Musk, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew.
Summary of Trump's first-term executive orders on the administrative state that Biden repealed in 2021
Summary of Trump's first-term executive orders on the administrative state that Biden repealed in 2021
is set to be sworn in as the 47th president on January 20, 2025.Â
After succeeding Trump in 2021, President (D) signed in his first 100 days in office, 21 of which directly aimed at revoking Trump administration actions.
tracked five , enacted in the first five months of his presidency, that revoked 14 Trump executive orders that aimed to reform the administrative state. Trump's 2024 that a day-one priority would be to reissue one of those revoked 2020 executive orders designed to allow the president to remove federal employees who would have otherwise had civil service job protection. Here is a look at that revoked executive order and several others.
Two Biden executive orders, and , revoked the following eight Trump executive orders, among others, regarding hiring and removing of federal employees, regulatory reduction, and reducing costs for administrative efforts:
- : Created a new Schedule F in the for employees serving in policy-related roles, making it easier to remove those employees.
- : Established regulatory budgets for federal agencies and required agencies to eliminate two old regulations for each new regulation issued.
- : Established new regulatory reform officers and regulatory reform task forces to oversee the implementation of E.O. 13771.
- : Directed agencies to eliminate non-statutory advisory committees whose missions have been accomplished, whose subject matter has become obsolete, whose primary functions have been assumed by another entity, or whose costs outweigh benefits.
- : Prohibited federal administrative agencies from issuing binding rules through guidance documents.
- : Required federal administrative agencies to provide the public with fair notice of regulations.
- : Required agencies to consider cost reduction efforts in administrative actions.
- : Aimed to expedite the discipline and dismissal processes for federal employees deemed poor-performing.
Biden's Executive Order 13992 also abolished "any personnel positions, committees, task forces, or other entities" established pursuant to the revoked executive orders. These include the regulatory reform officer positions and task forces established under Trump's Executive Order 13777.
In addition to executive orders, Biden signed into law three resolutions of disapproval under the , or CRA, that repealed Trump administration rules. The CRA and executive orders are two mechanisms that, once in office, presidents and elected officials can use to repeal rules and shift regulatory priorities with their administration.
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