WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration ceremony is moving indoors to the Capitol rotunda because of a frigid weather forecast in the nation's capital Monday, the president-elect announced on social media Friday.

The potential change, a rare break with tradition, would deny Mr. Trump the pomp and large audience he hoped for at his second swearing-in.

The sudden weather-induced change forced a scramble for hundreds of thousands of people who had spent months planning for the swearing-in of the nation’s 47th president.

President-elect Donald Trump said his inauguration on Monday will take place inside the U.S. Capitol rather than outdoors because of severe cold, the first time in 40 years that U.S. presidential inaugural ceremonies will be moved indoors.

The Biden administration’s website devoted to reproductive and abortion rights quietly disappeared on Friday, three days before President-elect Donald J. Trump takes the oath office. A senior administration official said it was a protective move, so that the contents of the website would not be “lost to history” if the Trump team took it down.

Trump will attend a signing room ceremony, followed by an inaugural luncheon in Statuary Hall. He then will review the troops on the east front of the Capitol. The parade will take place in Capitol One Arena, where Trump has invited attendees to also watch the swearing in ceremony.

President-elect Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 47th president on Jan. 20. Due to record-low temperatures, the ceremony will be held indoors.

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