Washington DC and the new president of the United States

January 25, 2017 11:23

Different people gave different reasons why Trump's swearing-in is best skipped. One view was that the anger among the new president's most ardent champions against the media was so deep and so venomous that journalists were vulnerable - even foreign correspondents like me, who were observers of the election, not participants like domestic US journalists who tried their best to damage Trump's poll prospects. One person predicted an attack on the media section that is at a vantage position on the Capitol's west front and is, therefore, easily identifiable since the layout for the swearing-in of a new president has not changed since 1981.

Read veteran journalist KP Nayar's column for the Telegraph.

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