Joe Biden and Kamala Harris' inauguration day mobilizes the star system: the national anthem on the steps of the Capitol entrusted to Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez for musical entertainment and in prime time Tom Hanks in a special 90-minute TV with Jon Bon Jovi, Demi Lovato, Justin Timberlake and Ant Clemons are among the highlights of an armored January 20 after the onslaught of the Trump ultras on Congress.
There will be no audience, if not glued to the small screen.
Washington authorities closed the entire National Mall for security reasons, while an "inviolable wall" of more than two meters was erected around the Capitol.
While Biden, who wanted to get to Washington by train as he had done for decades when he was a senator, had to give up.
The 'Serie A' billboard is light years away from the disastrous settlement of Donald Trump who, for "his" January 20, had found nothing but Jon Voight, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Big and Rich, and 3 Doors Down.
Skipping the traditional White House tour with his predecessor, Biden will commit to "preserving, protecting and defending the Constitution" by placing his hand on a monumental Bible with the Celtic cross passed down from generation to generation in his family since 1893. The future "46 "He has already used it seven times as a senator and two more as a vice-president.
Friends of the family, Jesuit priest Leo Donovan and Methodist pastor Silvester Beaman, will open and close the ceremony in which Amanda Gorman, a 22-year-old poet and activist from Los Angeles, will read one of her compositions.