Republicans and conservatives meanwhile are pouring in for celebrations with hotels being nearly 70% booked

Alejandra Whitney-Smith has plans for president-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration next week: spend a week in a cabin without technology.

“It [inauguration weekend] coincides with my birthday weekend, which I usually do spend in DC, but when the election happened, I told myself, ‘Oh, no, I can’t be here,’” said Whitney-Smith, whose mother was working at the Library of Congress during the January 6 attack on the US Capitol in 2021. “I just remember that feeling of fear for her and then also just concern for me being in the city. I just knew for me – I didn’t want to be around that sort of hostile negative energy.”

The DC resident said she will hunker down in a cabin with four friends during inauguration weekend and do some vision boarding, reflection and reconnection. As for the re-election of Trump, she says it, “represents the ugly side of America that people don’t want to acknowledge”.

  • cybersandwich@lemmy.world
    14·
    8 hours ago

    No one is fucking “fleeing”.

    No one is going downtown on Monday and maybe people are heading out of town to avoid the “crowds”. But people aren’t “fleeing” shit any more than they “flee” on the 4th of July or Memorial Day.

    DC residents have dealt with shit like this for forever.

    This is shit journalism and a trash headline.

  • xmunk
    61·
    10 hours ago

    Genuinely, of all the inaugurations to be concerned about a car bomb or other attack - this is the most likely.

    US intelligence services are good enough that they’ll intercept a lot of the less careful people weeks before an incident but in this inauguration you’ve got a deeply divisive president who has long been above justice with a laundry list of crimes he’s never faced proper penalties for…

    Along with pretty much every billionaire you’ve ever hated in attendance.

    The chances of a less discriminate Luigi copycat are extremely high.