For Trumps Second Inauguration, the Vibes in D.C. Are Very Different

It was Saturday afternoon and two men who voted for Donald J.Trump were wandering the frosty streets of downtown Washington, not quite sure where to go or what to do.They had traveled far — one from Arkansas, the other from Louisiana — to watch Mr.

Trump’s inauguration.Now it was being moved inside, and they didn’t know if they would make it into the arena where it was going to be broadcast come Monday.“I’m kind of bummed, because we came all the way up here for it,” said one of the men, a 76-year-old retired Navy man from Fayetteville, Ark., named Bob Jaynes.

“We talked to a lady today from Australia, and yesterday people from Hawaii, and at lunch people from New Mexico.So they’ve got to be all bummed out, too.

It’s a long way to come, and it’s expensive to stay here.”A 63-year-old bail bondsman from Oklahoma City named Tom Trepaignier stood in the shadow of the Washington Monument in yellowing caiman leather boots.He said he planned to watch the inauguration from his hotel room.

He looked up and down at all the white marble on the mall and said it was still “really cool” to be there.“It’s like the Roman Empire.”This is the moment Mr.

Trump’s supporters have been waiting four long years to see.The ones who converged on the capital this weekend packed bars and got pulled around town in pedicabs blaring the Village People.

They did night sightseeing in Georgetown, marveling at the size of the federalist estates.They were excited....