But the polar express that blasted into Washington for President Ronald Reagan’s second inaugural that year thwarted ... those during other inaugurations that did not move indoors. The arctic air that plunged D.C. into freezing weather 40 years ago ...
The presidential inauguration ceremony will take place on what could be the coldest inauguration day since 1985.
A brutal polar vortex is set to bury the Big Apple in snow Sunday and then deliver deadly single-digit temperatures that will feel like 15 degrees below zero.
Ronald Reagan became the oldest President to take office at the age of 73. In 2021, outgoing President Joe Biden broke the record at the age of 78 years, And now Trump, who turned 78 in June 2024, will become the oldest person to start a presidential term.
The worst weather for an inaugural came in March 1909, when 10 inches of snow forced William H. Taft to move indoors to be sworn in.
If the forecast is correct, it will be the coldest inauguration since Ronald Reagan's in 1985.
Yet another Arctic blast is expected to send temperatures ... the coldest presidential inauguration since the start of Ronald Reagan's second term in 1985, AccuWeather said.
NORAD sent two F-16s from Alaska to Greenland to reinforce posture in the Arctic. Meanwhile, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said President Donald Trump's
Political leaders had warned about the dangers of Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Washington, D.C. months before an American Airlines flight collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter on its approach to the airport.
The National breaks down the timeline of the deadly collision between American Airlines flight 5342 and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
Bitter cold gripping much of the country led to a record cold Presidential Inauguration, which was held indoors.
The president who built his fan base on isolationism is pivoting to a kind of imperialism that the U.S. hasn’t seen in decades.