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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Donald Trump will be sworn in as president in the Rotunda of the US Capitol on Monday, after bitter cold prompted architects to move the ceremony under the building’s neoclassical dome for the first time since he is forty years old.
The change means that Trump will take the Oath of Office in the 96-foot (29 m) wide, 180-foot (55 m) high sandstone center of the Capitol, the same place where his supporters rioted on 6 January 6. , 2021, in order to overturn his victory in the 2020 election. Here are the details of the events related to January 6 that were played in the Capitol Rotunda.
* Rioters broke windows as they fought police to enter the Capitol on Jan. 6, causing what the Capitol Architect estimated was about $1.5 million in damage to the building. Some carried flags and wore red MAGA hats, others in helmets, gas masks and smart vests, posed for photographs. Protesters climbed the statues, including former Presidents Gerald Ford (NYSE: ) and Ronald Reagan.
A man was photographed walking through the Rotunda carrying the lectern used by the speaker of the House of Representatives, then Democrat Nancy Pelosi.
* The next day, then-Democratic Representative Andy Kim stopped on his way to work, kneeling down in the Rotunda to pick up trash left by rioters. Kim was elected to the US Senate in November.
* Crews spent days repairing the damage, and cleaning up the remains of chemical incendiaries that were fired by police in the fight as they prepared for the inauguration of Democratic President Joe Biden.
* When the US House of Representatives voted to impeach Trump for a second time because of his conduct on January 6, nine House Democrats officially began his trial on January 25, 2021, when they returned the charges to the Rotunda, and were taken to the Senate for trial. Trump was finally cleared of the Senate.
* Former US Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, who fought with protesters on January 6 and died the next day, lies in state in the Rotunda — a recognition usually reserved for elected officials on March 3 2021.
He was posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for protecting lawmakers, which his parents, Charles and Gladys Sicknick, accepted on December 6, 2022. They declined clear to say goodbye to the Senate and House of Representatives who were the Republicans at the time, Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy. .
* Trump returned to the Capitol for the first time since the Jan. 9, 2025 riot, stopping in the Rotunda to honor former President Jimmy Carter, who died on Dec. 29.
