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Donald Trump’s Inauguration Weather Will Be Cold, But…
It never entirely made sense for Trump to move his inauguration inside to the Capitol Rotunda. For a person who is obsessed with crowd size, why would Trump move inside to a place with room for just 600 people?
MSNBC’s Jen Psaki said, “ Cold weather didn't exactly stop Jimmy Carter when temperatures dipped below 30 degrees, or Barack Obama when wind chills were in the teens, and nearly 2 million people still gathered. It was cold, very cold, I can promise you. Heck, I mean, JFK didn't even wear an overcoat when the high was 26 degrees, and there were 8 inches of snow on the ground. So sure, they say it's the weather. I have a hunch crowd size anxiety might just be a factor.”
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Two million people showed up for Obama in 2009 in wind chills that were just as cold, but nobody thought about moving indo…
