MAGA Miffed at Venue Change as White Hats Dismiss Security Concerns as a Reason
MAGA pundits speculated that President Trump’s real motive for moving the inauguration indoors was lack of cooperation from metropolitan police departments that refused to send officers to the event.
By Michael Baxter @Real Raw News
January 20, 2025
Tens of thousands of MAGA ticketholders were miffed at President Trump’s decision to hold his inauguration indoors instead of outside in the arctic air.
The President had cited inclement weather as the reason for the venue change, but his explanation did not mollify supporters who had to watch the swearing-in remotely from the Capitol One Arena.
Hundreds of MAGA had come to DC from across the country days in advance with expectations of seeing President Trump place his hand on the Bible and renew his constitutional oath.
Last Monday President Trump posted to Truth Social and X, formerly Twitter:
“We will open Capital One Arena on Monday for LIVE viewing of this Historic event, and to host the Presidential Parade,” President Trump added.
“I will join the crowd at Capital One, after my Swearing In,” and the Joint Inaugural Committee posted that “the vast majority of ticketholders will not be able to attend ceremonies in person.”
Despite President Trump’s explanation for changing venues, some MAGA pundits speculated that President Trump’s real motive for moving the inauguration indoors was a lack of cooperation from metropolitan police departments that refused to send officers to the event.
And while a few police departments indeed declined to station officers at the Capitol, citing staffing and technical issues as reasons for skipping the inauguration, the absence of 100 police officers wouldn’t have jeopardized President Trump’s security.
Eighty-five hundred Armed Forces personnel, among them battle-hardened White Hats trained to spot Deep Staters and ANTIFA activists, have been in DC since President Trump resoundingly smashed Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.
A source in General Eric M. Smith’s office told Real Raw News:
“To my knowledge, Gen. Smith wasn’t consulted on the venue switch. We had enough men to guarantee President Trump’s safety. And if security was Trump’s concern, he could’ve spoken with the general—and we could’ve landed thousands and thousands of more men at [Joint Base] Andrews in a matter of hours. President Trump, the commander-in-chief, the POTUS, said he did what he did because he didn’t want his supporters to freeze outdoors, and President Trump doesn’t lie to his supporters; he doesn’t lie to MAGA. President Trump symbolizes MAGA.”
“Frederick City and Louden County police departments would’ve sent, at most, 135 patrolmen, and that ain’t enough to make any difference whatsoever,” he went on.
Though President Trump’s inauguration took place without a hiccup, our source said the White Hats’ utmost concern was not the presence of ANTIFA protesters but rather “the enemy within,” FBI and Secret Service workers that, to this day, remain on Gen. Smith’s Deep State enemies list.
Names on that list include FBI Special Agent Christopher Stiles, who joined the bureau in 2006 and was an agent-in-charge during the bureau’s unconstitutional raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in August 2022.
It was Stiles who ordered his subordinates to search the master bedroom and rifle through Melania’s wardrobe; they upturned dresser drawers and scattered her undergarments across the floor.
He had instructed agents to ransack Mar-a-Lago and find evidence of a crime.
When Gen. Smith learned Stiles would be the agent-in-charge during Trump’s inaugural Rotunda speech, he was flabbergasted.
He had not, however, mentioned his unease to President Trump, as the President had previously admonished him for voicing concerns about other people he deemed to be Deep Staters in the President’s midst.
“When we wanted to arrest Zuckerberg, believing him to be a Trojan Horse, we got told to keep our hands off him in August. We must accept that President Trump knows more than we do, and he doesn’t always share everything he knows. There’s an order to things, a chain of command. President Trump makes decisions; we abide by them. He gives orders, and we follow those orders. That’s the order of things, the hierarchical structure, and if we don’t adhere to it, well, it’s chaos,” our source said.
Still, White Hats have trepidations about working alongside agencies with which they have fought a seemingly endless battle these last several years.
“The dynamic is changing, and we’re now expected to respect the FBI and FEMA. We’ve been fighting these bastards to protect Americans from them. It’s a hard pill to swallow, if you catch my drift. Our sacrifices prove our commitment—we’ve had good men gunned down by federal desperadoes, and now we’re supposed to believe that Kash Patel’s and Kristi Noem’s appointment will make all the corruption disappear. That’s a harder pill to swallow because we, more than anyone else, understand the Deep State’s tenacity, its resolve, and the resources it still has at its disposal. The Deep State’s been a persistent threat since Clinton, and I’m sorry, to us, it’s unfathomable that a top leadership change will reform agencies that celebrate the subjugation of society. It would be naive and irresponsible of us to accept that. But we dutifully obey the President.”
In the end, the President’s swearing-in went without incident, but some MAGA loyalists lamented the fact that multi-millionaires and billionaires who had been ultra-liberal until a few months ago got to enjoy President Trump’s company while they did not.