This article provides details about the inaugural balls planned for Donald Trump's second inauguration, highlighting the number of events, performers, and notable attendees. It also compares the scale of celebrations to previous inaugurations, including those of Barack Obama and George W. Bush.
This Sunday, Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 47th President of the United States. A traditional part of the weekend’s events will be a series of inaugural balls, both official and unofficial, across the District. There will be three official inaugural balls in succession on Monday, January 20: the Commander in Chief Ball, Liberty Inaugural Ball, and Starlight Ball. Trump will deliver remarks at each of them. The number of celebrations is down from Trump’s last inauguration.
The number of inaugural balls varies greatly from president to president and term to term, and though the number of inaugural balls remains the same from Trump’s first and second inaugurations, there seems to be a drop-off in unofficial events from his last swearing-in, which yielded more than 25 events over the course of the 2017 weekend. It’s not totally unprecedented: former President Barack Obama’s first inauguration in 2009 saw more than 100 balls total—ten of which he attended—and then in 2013, his second inauguration weekend included 35 unofficial balls and just two official ones—that decision was reportedly meant to portray mindfulness of the state of the economy. In 2005, for the last inauguration of a non-Trump Republican, former President George W. Bush had at least 15 total official and unofficial balls over the course of the weekend. Country singers Carrie Underwood and Lee Greenwood, disco band the Village People, and classical vocalist Christopher Macchio are all scheduled to perform during Trump’s official swearing-in ceremony. At other events, guests and entertainers include former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer as the All American Inaugural Ball emcee, Waka Flocka Flame at the Legacy of Freedom Ball, Charlie Kirk and Ben Shapiro at the Turing Point Inaugural-Eve Ball, and Sweet Honey in the Rock at the left-leaning Peace Ball.
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