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NEWSTALK 1010 LIVE IN WASHINGTON DC

Washington DC inauguration
Washington DC inaugurationSiobhan Morris/NEWSTALK 1010
Reporters recording history as Donald Trump is sworn in as the 45th US President

Donald Trump upended American politics and energized voters angry with Washington, and now the real estate mogul and reality television star will be sworn in as the 45th president of the United States.

NEWSTALK 1010 is in Washington D.C. for the inauguration.

 

The president-in-waiting will attend church with his family Friday morning, then meet President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama for tea at the White House. The Trumps and the Obamas will travel together in the presidential limousine for the short trip to the Capitol for the noon swearing-in ceremony.

Ebullient Trump supporters have flocked to the nation's capital for the inaugural festivities, some wearing red hats emblazoned with his ``Make America Great Again'' campaign slogan.

 

More than 8,000 people will march in the 1.5-mile inaugural parade down Pennsylvania Avenue, from the Capitol to the White House. 

That's actually a relatively restrained dose of inaugural pomp. Trump's team wants to keep the parade to 90 minutes so the new president has time to do some work. 

The longest parade, with 73 bands and 59 floats, lasted more than four and half hours at Dwight Eisenhower's first inauguration in 1953.