I am weary regarding this discussion about the 2021 inauguration.
We are not going to change each others’ opinions.
I will now dig deeper to see if I can get some clarity about the other discrepancies.
I just looked at all the Inauguration videos back to Pres. Clinton in 1993.
All gun salutes were done on what appears to be the Capitol grounds and you hear the guns after the oath of office was taken....except for Pres. Biden’s.
I have an e-mail into the “U.S. Army Center of Military History” asking:
Was the 21 gun salute for President Biden done in Arlington ?
If so, why was the salute venue changed from the Capitol to Arlington ?
I am expecting to get the run-around shuffle.
I maybe will have to go directly to:
The Presidential Salute Battery (The Old Guard) who does the actual salute.
Okay, it’s Wiki, but often when you want to check some basic facts, you can get what you need:
“Upon completing the oath, the U.S. Army Band (”Pershing’s Own”) played four ruffles and flourishes, but a 21-gun cannon salute was not rendered, which caused a brief delay in the proceedings before Biden was able to deliver his inaugural address. The 21-gun cannon salute for President Biden was later rendered at the wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery.[155]”
“Following the Pass in Review, Biden and Harris, along with former presidents Clinton, Bush, and Obama, and all their spouses, participated in a wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery.[43] The television package included footage of former presidents Clinton, Bush, and Obama at Arlington Memorial Amphitheater discussing the peaceful transition of power.[172] Presidential historian Timothy Naftali noted that the ceremony was significant because Congress had decided on Inauguration Day in 1921, almost a hundred years prior to Biden’s, to bury an unidentified soldier who died in World War I at the spot.[173] Naftali additionally remarked that the gathering of Biden and former presidents to honor the unknown soldiers who died in war served as a “visual message of unity, at a time of anxiety, pain and suffering in [the] country”.[173]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inauguration_of_Joe_Biden
I’m trying to wrap my head around this.
Let’s say Trump had been sworn in instead that day. Surely the two months between his reelection and his 2nd inauguration would have been beset with a lot of, ahem, turmoil and there would have been security concerns that may have forced things to be scaled back. And I doubt the former presidents would have attended.
I can’t imagine Trump would have wanted to share the spotlight, so to speak, with the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, nor would he have wanted that soldier to share the spotlight with him. And he would not have wanted the visual of a president getting his 21 gun salute at a cemetery.