Does the Inauguration have to be in DC? In the open?
Of course not. Any Federal judge or other official authorized to administer oaths can swear Trump in as the clock strikes 12:00 on 1/20/25, anywhere on the planet.
But a repetition of 1/20/17, should it occur, must be turned into a true FAFO moment or else this will go on every day for the next four years.
No, it has been held indoors before.................
LBJ was sworn in on November 22, 1963 on Air Force One with JFK’s dead body in the cargo hold.