Few Washington DC residents have been seen out on the city's streets when Trump was sworn in on Monday. Of the city's votes in the election, Trump only got 6.6 percent.
People are staying at home today and feeling sad and disappointed, says Peter, 40, who is studying law, to TT.
Peter, who does not want to give his last name, says it feels "tragic" and that the capital's resistance to Trump has been significantly milder this time compared to when he became president in 2017 – "people are too tired to protest".
"Historic moment"
The Trump supporters are all the more lyrical. In the long queue into the Capitol One Arena, the cheering erupted when Trump began his inauguration speech, which was shown on a large screen outside the arena.
"We love Trump" chanted the sympathizers in unison.
It's a historic moment and I'm very happy to be here, said Adrian Garranzuay, 40, from Texas, who watched Trump's speech on his phone in the queue.
Like many other supporters who TT has spoken to, Garranzuay is convinced that many of the USA's problems will be solved over the next four years.
Proud Boys praise Trump
Blake Fetters, 23, from Carmel, Indiana, was also shivering in the queue to the arena. He hopes for a quick presidential decree to release the Trump supporters who have been imprisoned after the storming of Congress on January 6, 2021.
Many of them did nothing, they were just inside the building, and they were let in by the police, said Blake Fetters.
After Trump took the oath, about sixty members of the far-right group Proud Boys marched towards the arena with a banner praising Trump. Several members of the group were convicted of participating in the Congress storming.
A demonstrator with a megaphone rushed towards the group but was pushed away by the police.
"Four years of hell are over"
Fetters' father, Cliff Fetters, who introduced himself as a holistic doctor, looks forward to vaccine skeptic Robert F Kennedy taking a place in Trump's government.
Kennedy and Trump will make the USA healthier and stop the pharmaceutical industry's influence. We've gone through four years of hell with Biden, but now it's over.
I hope for a presidential order today to ban biological men from participating in women's sports, it's a question that's close to my heart, says 19-year-old political science student Olivia McLean from Clermont, Florida, who is also a weightlifter on the side.
The hopes are also high with her mother Anne Marie McLean, who looks forward to Trump "fixing the economy and restoring freedom of speech" and "throwing out all dangerous illegal immigrants".
