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.

It will likely be the coldest Inauguration Day since President Ronald Reagan’s second inauguration in 1985 when ... but dry. Brutally cold Arctic air will spill south through Canada late this week and rush into the northern US by Saturday morning.

Millions of Americans are bracing for life-threatening cold as an arctic blast driven by the polar vortex plunges temperatures across the country, reaching as far south as the Gulf Coast. The brutal cold,

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.

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In his statement, Trump addressed two obsessions of the MAGA movement: Ronald Reagan and crowd sizes. The incoming president noted that Reagan was sworn in inside the Capitol in 1985, at that moment becoming the oldest president to be inaugurated. That record was eventually bested by Joe Biden in 2021. It will again be broken by Trump next week.

The second inauguration of Ronald Reagan on Jan. 20, 1985, was forced indoors due to intense cold. As USA TODAY noted that day, "The USA's 50th inauguration today moves indoors – a victim of bone-chilling temperatures that threatened 350,000 invited guests and parade watchers."

The coldest air of the season is set to arrive in Washington, DC, on January 20, coinciding with President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration. When Trump takes the oath of office at noon, temperatures are forecast to be in the low 20s,

Donald Trump will be inaugurated as the 47th president of the United States on January 20. The inauguration will begin with fireworks on January 18, according to the committee.

The National Weather Service is predicting the temperature to be around 22 degrees (minus-6 Celsius) at noon during the swearing-in, the coldest since Reagan’s second inauguration saw temperatures plunge to 7 degrees (minus-14 Celsius). Barack Obama’s 2009 swearing-in was 28 degrees (minus-2 Celsius).