Donald Trump Posts Telling Photo On Jan. 6 Anniversary

01/06/2025 09:27 AM

It's the four-year anniversary of the storming of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C.

Four years ago, thousands of supporters of Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol off of the national mall in Washington, D.C. President Biden is warning Americans to not forget what happened on that day. He wrote an essay for the Washington Post.

"To tell us we didn't see what we all saw with our own eyes," he wrote in The Washington Post. "To dismiss concerns about it as some kind of partisan obsession. To explain it away as a protest that just got out of hand."

"This is not what happened."

Trump, meanwhile, took to his Truth Social platform on Monday, posting a photo of his supporters outside of the U.S. Capitol building. 

The U.S. Capitol, meanwhile, is heavily secured ahead of the election certification process on Monday. This is the same process that was interrupted by the insurrection four years ago.

From NBC News: 

On Saturday morning, about 36 hours before a snowstorm was expected to hit Washington, workers at the Capitol were placing additional layers of high fencing around the Capitol grounds, including on the west front, which Trump supporters took over during the Capitol attack four years ago.

Biden implored lawmakers Sunday to speak truthfully about the Capitol attack, in which more than 140 police officers were injured and after which some law enforcement officers died, at an event with newly elected Democratic lawmakers.

"Now, it's your duty to tell the truth, to remember what happened and not let Jan. 6th be rewritten," Biden has said. "It's one of the toughest days in American history."

Hopefully, we won't have any similar incidents on the four-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection this time around.