Biden World Fears Trump Will Bring 'Weird Shit' to Their Inauguration

[octoberlib]

President-elect Joe Biden’s team is confronting a logistical headache as it prepares for his formal inauguration on January 20, 2021: How can you hold a mass-attended event in the midst of a pandemic while also preventing it from becoming a Trumpist counterprotest?

At issue is a potentially combustible mix of complications owing to the likelihood that both COVID-19 and President Donald Trump’s hurt feelings will persist into the time when Biden is scheduled to be sworn into office.

Officials who have been involved in talks around inauguration planning said public safety would be top of mind. Over the course of the campaign, Biden consistently downscaled events or went entirely virtual to ensure no risk of COVID spread on his behalf. The expectation is that mindset won’t change for his inauguration.

But the questions being confronted by inauguration planners are now twofold. How do you actually keep attendees away? And if wannabe revelers decide not to show up, will you be left with a mass gathering of Trump supporters in their place? “What do you do if our people don’t show up and his do?” asked one official involved in inaugural preparations. “They probably will and the last thing you want is a MAGA rally on the Mall when Joe Biden is sworn in as president…. I think [Trump] would want to make it as much of a shitshow as possible.”


https://www.thedailybeast.com/biden-world-fears-trump-will-bring-weird-shit-to-their-inauguration?ref=home

[Turin_C3PO]

1. Perhaps Biden

should just do a purely virtual inauguration. We don't need MAGAts destroying the ceremony.

[BannonsLiver]

2. Not even sure why a traditional inauguration is being contemplated

We’re in a pandemic. Swear him in at the WH and get on with it.

[octoberlib]

4. This.

[marybourg]

5. Yes.

[lame54]

9. City Hall - The WH has covid

[ProudMNDemocrat]

3. I do not trust Trump to behave himself on January 20th.

He will stir up shit to remain relevant, whether he is in D.C. or not. He will want the attention regardless.

Trump cannot stand not being the center of attention. He will insist people refer to him as Mr. President, as if he is still in office.

[cilla4progress]

6. I fully expect it will be done

Virtually.

Hell, the Supremes are not even meeting in person rn, are they?

[octoberlib]

7. Nope. The inauguration needs to be virtual.

[chowder66]

8. They should consider holding an inauguration party once the pandemic is under control. nt