Trump to be inaugurated inside: Last ceremony held indoors was Reagan's in 1985

President Donald Trump's inauguration volition present instrumentality spot wrong the U.S. Capitol owed to acold upwind forecast for Monday, the archetypal indoor inauguration since Ronald Reagan's 2nd inauguration successful January 1985. 

On that frigid January 20th 40 years ago, the aerial somesthesia was 7 degrees, with a windchill of -40. 

Monday's forecast is simply a precocious of 23 degrees and a debased of 10, but brutal winds are expected to whip crossed the city, making the somesthesia consciousness much similar single-digit temperatures. 

President Thomas Jefferson was inaugurated wrong the Capitol successful 1801, arsenic was customized successful the nation's aboriginal history. Organizers moved President James Monroe's inauguration outside, due to the fact that the Capitol was truthful severely damaged aft the War of 1812 erstwhile the British burned it, which kicked disconnected the customized of swearing successful a president extracurricular successful beforehand of the National Mall. 

TRUMP SWEARING-IN TO MOVE INDOORS DUE TO COLD WEATHER

President John F. Kennedy's inauguration successful 1961 had akin temperatures - a precocious of 26 and a debased of 19. It was held outside, adjacent aft a tempest dumped 8 inches of snowfall the erstwhile day. 

"The upwind forecast for Washington, D.C., with the windchill factor, could instrumentality temperatures into terrible grounds lows," Trump posted connected Truth Social, addressing the expected cold. 

"There is an Arctic blast sweeping the Country. I don’t privation to spot radical hurt, oregon injured, successful immoderate way. It is unsafe conditions for the tens of thousands of Law Enforcement, First Responders, Police K9s and adjacent horses, and hundreds of thousands of supporters that volition beryllium extracurricular for galore hours connected the 20th (In immoderate event, if you determine to come, formal warmly!)."

Trump said D.C.'s Capital One Arena volition beryllium unfastened Monday for unrecorded viewing of his inauguration "and to big the Presidential Parade." 

"I volition articulation the assemblage astatine Capital One, aft my Swearing in," Trump wrote.