On the 20th (local time), President Donald Trump visited the congressional visitor center downstairs to see supporters who had not been able to enter the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol where the inauguration ceremony was held. Unlike the inauguration ceremony where he read a prepared speech for about 30 minutes, President Trump revealed his feelings by giving an impromptu speech from the prompter.
President Trump said, "I thought that with weather like this, it wouldn't be a bad idea to hold the inauguration here every four years." This comment appears to refer to the good weather during the inauguration, but some interpreted it as a suggestion of Trump's possibility of re-election. According to the U.S. Constitution, a president cannot serve more than two terms, however, Trump's camp has suggested the potential for a 'Trump third term.'
A significant portion of the impromptu speech was devoted to the topic of 'election fraud.' Trump referred to the 2020 presidential election in which he lost, calling it "a totally rigged election" and lamenting that "the fact that people who shouldn't be here in our country are here now is a sad thing." He went on to say, "We beat Hillary, and in the 2020 presidential election, we got many more votes than in the first election (the 2016 election), but they said we lost."
Regarding last November's election, he remarked, "We had great results in California in this election, but the problem is that we don't even know where they sent the 38 million ballots," adding, "And those ballots suddenly pour in during the counting. In California, even requiring voter ID at polling offices is considered illegal." He continued, "When we return to normal and the situation is sorted out, we can also win in California (against the Democrats)."
As with the inauguration ceremony, he continued his overt criticism of former President Joe Biden. President Trump said regarding Biden's preemptive pardons for family members just before the inauguration, "Today, there are people who Joe Biden has pardoned, and they committed really terrible crimes," adding, "It's hard to believe what crimes they committed, yet they have been pardoned."