(WTAQ-WLUK) — Among the hundreds of thousands of people expected at Monday’s inauguration in Washington D.C. will be hundreds of people from Northeast Wisconsin.
Meanwhile, there are others from our area who are looking for an outlet to express their anxiety about the start of another Donald Trump presidency.
The inauguration will mark the first chapter of another four years of President Donald Trump, closing the book on an eventful pursuit back to the White House.
“It was quite the year, full of events, from obviously the impeachments to the different lawfare against President Trump to him getting shot and then becoming the nominee,” said Dixon Wolfe, a Brown County supervisor who will be attending the inauguration.
Wolfe was a delegate in Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention, and he’s now heading to the inauguration, selected as a guest through his work with Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point Action.
“I’ve been to several rallies of President Trump and this one is going to be icing on the cake for sure,” said Wolfe.
People can get free tickets to attend the inauguration through their elected representatives.
Congressman Tony Wied’s office has distributed all 220 tickets allotted for the 8th Congressional District.
“We’re trying to service everybody,” said Wied. “Having such a big waiting list is difficult, so what I have been doing is trying to work with some of my colleagues in Congress that had extra tickets and trying to get those handed out as well.”
2019 Green Bay mayoral candidate Nick Mortensen says he’s been experiencing extreme anxiety about Trump’s victory.
“I don’t know what the solution is for any of it,” said Mortensen. “I just know I got to figure out how to live my life where this doesn’t continue to diminish it.”
Mortensen, who has a degree in history, is organizing a get-together for six o’clock Monday night at the Brown County Central Library that he’s calling Autocratic Despair.
“This is about finding some common cause with some other people to recognize what’s happening, identify it for what it is and try to live their best life under harsh circumstances,” said Mortensen.
Mortensen says he would be happy if seven or eight people showed up to this gathering, which he is hoping to build upon as a monthly event.
“I believe in President Trump,” said Wied. “He is the person that we need right now to fix the issues that we’ve been facing to secure the border, to lower inflation.”
Whether you’re on the side that is looking forward to Monday’s inauguration, or among those who would rather look away, the swearing-in ceremony begins at 11 a.m.
