Factbox-Trump will return to office on January 6th in the US Capitol Rotunda where riots erupted.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Donald Trump will be sworn in as president on Monday in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol, after a forecast bitter cold prompted planners to move the ceremony under the building’s neoclassical dome for the first time in four decades.

That shift means Trump will take the oath of office in the 96-foot (29-meter) by 180-foot (55-meter) sandstone auditorium at the center of the Capitol, where some of his supporters rioted on Jan. 6. In the year In 2021, trying to reverse the defeat in the 2020 elections. Here’s a look at the events that took place in the Capitol Rotunda on January 6.

* Rioters broke windows as they fought with police to enter the Capitol on January 6, and the Capitol architect estimated $1.5 million in damage to the building. Some wore flags and red MAGA caps, while others wore hoods, gas masks and tactical boots and posed for photos. They climbed statues of rioters, including former presidents Gerald Ford (NYSE: ) and Ronald Reagan.

A man was photographed walking through the rotunda using a lecture hall used by then-Democrat Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.

* The next day, Democratic Representative Andy Kim, on his way to work, stopped and knelt on the Rotunda floor to pick up the trash left by the rioters. Kim was elected to the US Senate in November.

* Crews have been scrambling for days to clean up chemical spills left by police during the war as they prepare for the inauguration of Democratic President Joe Biden.

* When the US House of Representatives voted to impeach Trump on January 6th, nine House Democrats presented the charges through the Rotunda on January 25th, 2021, officially marking the start of the trial. They were brought before the Senate for trial. Trump was eventually acquitted in the Senate.

* Former U.S. Capitol Police officer Brian Cicnik, who fought with rioters on Jan. 6 and died the next day, is honored in the rotunda — a recognition traditionally given to top elected officials on Feb. 3, 2021.

His parents, Charles and Gladys Cicnik, were posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for Defense of Lawmakers, which he received on December 6, 2022. Top Republicans at the time, Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy, refused to salute the Senate and House of Representatives. .

* Trump returned to the Capitol for the first time since the riots on Jan. 9, 2025, standing in the rotunda to pay his respects to former President Jimmy Carter, who died on Dec. 29.