Factbox-Trump will return to power in US Capitol Rotunda, site of Jan. 6 riot

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Donald Trump will be sworn in as president in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on Monday, after the forecast bitter cold prompted planners to move the ceremony under the building’s neoclassical dome for the first time in four decades.

The reset means Trump will take the oath of office in the 96-foot-diameter, 180-foot-high sandstone room in the center of the Capitol, the same place where some of his supporters rallied on Jan. 6. Array 2021, in an attempt to counteract its 2020 electoral defeat. Below is a review of events similar to January 6 that occurred in the Capitol rotunda.

* Rioters broke windows while fighting police to enter the Capitol on Jan. 6, causing damage to the building that the Capitol’s architect estimated at about $1. 5 million. Some wore red MAGA flags and hats, others wore helmets and gas masks. and tactical vests, assaulted to take photographs. Rioters climbed statues, including those of former presidents Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan.

One man was photographed walking through the Rotunda carrying off the lectern used by the speaker of the House of Representatives, then Democrat Nancy Pelosi.

* The next day, Democratic then-Representative Andy Kim stopped on his way to work, kneeling down on the Rotunda’s floor to pick up garbage left behind by rioters. Kim was elected to the U.S. Senate in November.

* Crews raced for days to repair damage and remove remnants of chemical irritants fired by police during the war as they prepared for the inauguration of Democratic President Joe Biden.

* When the U. S. House of Representatives voted a second time to impeach Trump for his conduct on Jan. 6, nine House Democrats officially began their trial on Jan. 25, 2021, when they returned the charges through the Rotunda, thus handing them over to the Senate for trial. In the end, Trump was acquitted in the Senate.

* Former U. S. Capitol Police OfficerU. S. Brian Sicknick, who fought with rioters on Jan. 6 and died the next day, lies in honor in the Rotunda, a popularity reserved for high-ranking elected officials on Feb. 3, 2021.

He posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for Status of Legislators, which his parents, Charles and Gladys Sicknick, accepted on December 6, 2022. They conspicuously refused to salute the Senate and House of Representatives, then top Republicans , Mitch McConnell and Kevin. McCarthy. . .

* Trump returned to the Capitol for the first time since the riot on Jan. 9, 2025, stopping in the Rotunda to pay his respects to former President Jimmy Carter, who died on Dec. 29.

(Reporting via Scott Malone; editing via Daniel Wallis)

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