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WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump will spend the day before his inauguration several times in Washington celebrating his return to the force and his “Make America Great Again” movement, as he prepares to return to the White House in a was. deep crisis. National political divisions.

The nation’s capital has prepared unprecedented tactics to keep the unfolding events safe and secure. But unlike when Trump helped provoke a mob of his supporters to attack the Capitol and attempted to retain force in 2021 after his loss to Democrat Joe Biden, officials do not expect large protests, riots and violence this time. Instead, the city is prepared for crowds celebrating Trump’s second term and the triumph of MAGA in the Republican Party.

It’s a remarkable shift after Trump left the nation’s capital in shame for four years and missed his successor’s inauguration. Trump worked his way to the presidency of the Republican Party in 2024 and won the November elections with a margin in the Electoral College that had not been noticed since the re-election of Democrat Barack Obama in 2012.

Yet even with this comfortable victory and his full, if shrunken, party in Congress, the new president remains one of the most polarizing figures in American history, with as many fierce critics as he is a major supporter.

That means it could be difficult to fulfill postelection pledges about promoting bipartisanship while healing political differences. He told NBC News on Saturday that unity would be a theme of his inauguration speech Monday at the Capitol, along with strength and fairness.

“January 20th cannot come fast enough!,” Trump also posted this week on his social media site. “Everybody, even those that initially opposed a Victory by President Donald J. Trump and the Trump Administration, just want it to happen.”

National and global occasions stuck some of his attention on Sunday as he commented on the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas and the U. S. ban on TikTok.

“Hostages starting to come out today! Three wonderful young women will be first,” Trump wrote on his social media site.

Overnight, millions of American TikTok users were no longer able to watch videos on the social media platform due to a federal ban on the app going into effect. The company posted a message privately appealing to Trump.

“We are fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he will work with us to fix TikTok once he takes office,” the message read. Trump’s response online: ‘SAVE TIKTOK!'”

True to tradition, Trump spent Saturday night at Blair House, the presidential office on Pennsylvania Avenue, across from the White House. He arrived there after a party at his golf club in Sterling, Virginia, about 30 miles west of town, in which fireworks lit up the night sky.

Trump arrived in Washington from his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, aboard a C-32, the military variant of the Boeing 757, painted in the iconic presidential powder blue and white color scheme. The aircraft that would be known as Air Force One if the president were aboard carried the president-elect as Special Air Mission 47.

Sunday will be Trump’s first full day in the capital since the election. This gives him a chance for the moment and excites his core supporters ahead of the big dose of official pomp on inauguration day, plus the noon swearing-in.

Trump planned to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery before speaking at a downtown rally at Capital One Arena, home of America’s basketball and hockey teams. Washington.

With frigid temperatures expected Monday, Trump directed his oath of office — now set for the Capitol Rotunda — and most of Monday’s outdoor events be moved indoors. The traditional parade will be held, in some form, at Capital One Arena.

Trump was also scheduled to attend a candlelight dinner on Sunday, where he was scheduled to speak.

Biden, on his last full day in office, scheduled a trip to South Carolina, a state of particular importance following his landslide victory in the 2020 Democratic primary, which prepared him to achieve his life’s purpose of being elected president.

Biden, accompanied by his wife, first daughter Jill Biden, was scheduled to stop at a North Charleston church to worship and speak about the legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. , the White House said. Monday is also a federal holiday in honor of the slain civil rights leader.

The president used his farewell speech last week to warn of a developing “oligarchy” of ultra-rich interests that are taking over and threatening the country’s very democracy.