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Trump inauguration moves indoors as polar vortex, Arctic blast loom – National [Video]

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Donald Trump will be sworn in as president in a different location this year — the U.S. Capitol building — as “bitterly” cold temperatures are set to hit the country’s capital city on Inauguration Day.

Trump announced the change to his plans on TruthSocial, pointing to a wind chill forecast by the National Weather Service and warnings of temperatures potentially hitting “severe record lows.”

“I don’t want to see people hurt, or injured, in any way,” he wrote. “It is dangerous conditions for the tens of thousands of law enforcement, first responders, police K9s and even horses, and hundreds of thousands of supporters that will be outside for many hours on the 20th.”

According to the National Weather Service, the temperature on Monday at noon local time could hit 22 F or -6 C, and could hit as low as -6 F or -21 C that evening.

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