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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. On the eve of his inauguration, President-elect Trump addressed a victory rally at an arena in Washington, D.C. tonight, telling the thousands of cheering supporters he means business.
By the time the sun sets tomorrow evening, the invasion of our borders will have come to a halt and all the illegal border trespassers... will in some form or another be on their way back home
Trump says he plans to reverse bans on oil drilling, enact mass deportations of people in the country without legal status that's said to be starting next week, and he says he will issue lots of executive orders.
Meanwhile, thousands of Trump supporters are in the nation's capital to celebrate, and some traveled hundreds of miles to get there for the event, which will now be held inside because of very cold temperatures expected tomorrow. NPR's Sarah McCammon has more.
Michael Webb and Jonathan Mahoney were excited for the inauguration, but they're rolling with the change of plans.
I got moods inside, so it's kind of sad. Kind of sad. Yeah, we had tickets too, so we were like on the lawn, and then we don't know what's going on with that now.
Webb, who's from Texas, and Mahoney from Massachusetts are in the military and stationed together a few hours from D.C. Edwin Alas traveled from Colorado with his husband Gabriel. Alas says they don't have tickets, but they wanted to come celebrate the new president.
you want the best for him because a successful presidency, no matter what party, is a successful country. So we hope the same for President Trump.
Trump will take the oath inside the Capitol Rotunda with many supporters watching from a downtown arena. Sarah McCammon, NPR News, Washington.
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