# Moving Day at the White House **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 20, 2021, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-day-at-the-white-house/930960 "2021-01-20T13:12:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mark\_Finn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@Mark\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mark_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2021, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-day-at-the-white-house/930960/1 "2021-01-20T13:12:53Z")
January 20 - movers have a five-hour window in which to clear the White House of all furnishings of the old administration, and moving in that of the new administration. I’m hoping for a video. > **[Here’s how presidents move into the White House in just hours on Inauguration...](https://thehill.com/homenews/news/534306-what-the-white-house-move-out-move-in-process-looks-like-as-administrations/)** > > On Jan. 20, the power of the presidency will shift from President Trump to President-elect Joe Biden. It also marks the day that a monumental moving effort will be carried out to prepare the h… ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2021, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-day-at-the-white-house/930960/2 "2021-01-20T13:15:40Z")
The con man has left the building. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2021, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-day-at-the-white-house/930960/3 "2021-01-20T13:16:34Z")
Not this year. There’s going to be a deep cleaning/fumigation due to the seething petri dish of COVID that The White House is. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2021, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-day-at-the-white-house/930960/4 "2021-01-20T21:55:34Z")
How are they removing the acrid stench of evil? ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2021, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-day-at-the-white-house/930960/5 "2021-01-20T22:17:23Z")
When I bought my house a friend came over to cleanse it of any possible evil spirits by burning sage. ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2021, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-day-at-the-white-house/930960/6 "2021-01-20T22:24:16Z")
> [@Mark\_Finn](#): > > January 20 - movers have a five-hour window in which to clear the White House of all furnishings of the old administration Didn’t the outgoing mob pinch everything that wasn’t bolted down? ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2021, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-day-at-the-white-house/930960/7 "2021-01-21T10:55:19Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > How are they removing the acrid stench of evil? For that, they need to burn the place to the ground and re-build it entirely. They still need a priest to do all the exorcisms. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2021, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-day-at-the-white-house/930960/8 "2021-01-21T13:26:29Z")
Well, there’s a priest at a church conveniently located quite near the White House. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2021, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-day-at-the-white-house/930960/9 "2021-01-21T14:48:21Z")
> **[Trump Directs Movers Loading Bubble-Wrapped Melania Into Storage Pod](https://www.theonion.com/trump-directs-movers-loading-bubble-wrapped-melania-int-1846071580)** > > WASHINGTON—Warning the crew to be very careful while transporting his valuables outside the White House, Donald Trump reportedly directed movers Wednesday to load a bubble-wrapped Melania into a storage pod. “All right, everything here that I’ve...