Four years after leaving the White House, Donald Trump is poised to be sworn in again Monday as the nation’s president, with a Republican-majority Congress at his disposal and a laundry list of promises

Lawmakers plan to skip the festivities surrounding the incoming Republican president for various reasons, as Democrats lick their wounds after election season.

Under the Constitution’s 20th Amendment, the newly elected president of the United States takes office on Jan. 20 (unless that’s a Sunday, in which case it moves to Jan. 21). For Trump’s (second) big day, the pomp and circumstance will include performances by Carrie Underwood and the Village People, a military parade, and formal balls.

Some in the crowd wore the pink hats that marked the much-larger protest against Trump's first inauguration in 2017. They wound through downtown amid a light rain, past the White House and toward the Lincoln Memorial along the National Mall for the "People's March.

Liberal activists have planned protests ahead of Trump's inauguration, but numbers expected to be lower than the 2017 Women's March.

Washington, D.C. continues to prepare for Donald Trump's inauguration with temperatures expected to remain near or below freezing over the weekend.