e presidential motorcade takes part in the inaugural parade on its way down Pennsylvania Avenue from the U.S. Capitol on January 21, 2013. (Photo by Molly Riley-Pool/Getty Images)

e presidential motorcade takes part in the inaugural parade on its way down Pennsylvania Avenue from the U.S. Capitol on January 21, 2013. (Photo by Molly Riley-Pool/Getty Images)

“People from every corner of the country have expressed great interest in President-elect Trump’s inauguration and look forward to continuing a salute to our republic that spans more than two centuries,” said Presidential Inaugural Committee CEO Sara Armstrong in a statement alongside a release of the initial list of participants in Donald Trump’s inaugural parade.

But the list itself includes participants from less than half of the 50 states. The 40 groups who will march down Pennsylvania Avenue come from 21 states, in addition to national groups like the Boy Scouts of America and Wounded Warriors. The release says that the PIC may announce more participants later.

While Virginia has four groups that’ll be marching, including one from Arlington and another from Fort Myer, neither D.C. or Maryland have folks on the list. NBC 4 reported last month that no D.C.-area marching bands had applied to participate.

In 2013, for the second inauguration of President Barack Obama, 60 organizations marched, selected from an application pool of 2,807. We’ve reached out to the PIC for the number of applications received this year, and will update if we hear back.

In an interview with Breitbart, Alex Stroman, the PIC’s deputy director of communication, said that fewer participants in the parade was by design. “This is going to be a shorter parade, an hour to hour and a half or so, so [Trump] can go to work.”

This year’s PIC has reportedly had trouble securing A-list celebrities for events throughout the inaugural weekend, though the president-elect claimed on Twitter that the opposite was true.

The narrative that the 58th inauguration is pared down so that the next president can focus on policy wasn’t what transition team members were saying right after the election.

“The inauguration is going to be huge,” Omarosa Manigault, transition team member and former Apprentice contestant, told The Hollywood Reporter in early December. “Of course, Mr. Trump wants it blinged out and fabulous and glamorous.”

Here’s the full list of participants in the inaugural parade, in addition to the branches of the U.S. Military:

1st Cavalry Division Horse Cavalry Detachment – Fort Hood, Texas
1st Infantry Commanding General’s Mounted Color – Ft. Riley, Kansas
Boone County Elite 4-H Equestrian Drill Team – Burlington, Kentucky
Caisson Platoon, Fort Myer – Fort Myer, Virginia
Cleveland Police Mounted Unit – Cleveland, Ohio
Coastal Florida Police & Fire Pipes & Drums – Palm Coast, Florida
Columbus North High School Band – Columbus, Indiana
Culver Academy Equestrian – Culver, Indiana
First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Fishburne Military School Army JROTC Caissons Battalion – Waynesboro, Virginia
Frankfort High School Band – Ridgeley, West Virginia
Franklin Regional High School Panther Marching Band – Murrysville, Pennsylvania
Indianapolis Metro Police Motorcycle Drill Team – Indianapolis, Indiana
Lil Wranglers – College Station, Texas
Marist College Band – Poughkeepsie, New York
Merced County Sheriff’s Posse – Hilmar, California
Michigan Multi-Jurisdictional Mounted Police Drill Team & Color Guard – Ann Arbor, Michigan
Mid America Cowgirls Rodeo Drill Team – New Buffalo, Michigan
Nassau County Firefighters Pipes & Drums – East Meadow, New York
North Carolina Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association – Hillsborough, North Carolina
NYPD Emerald Society Pipes & Drums – East Moriches, New York
Olivet Nazarene University – Bourbonnais, Illinois
Palmetto Ridge High School Band – Naples, Florida
Russellville High School Band – Russellville, Arkansas
Talladega College Band – Talladega, Alabama
Texas State University Strutters – San Marcos, Texas
The Citadel Regimental Band & Pipes and Summerall Guards – Charleston, South Carolina
The Freedom Riders – Kersey, Colorado
Tragedy Assistance Marching Unit – Arlington, Virginia
Tupelo High School Band – Tupelo, Mississippi
University of Tennessee Marching Band – Knoxville, Tennessee
VMI Corps of Cadets – Lexington, Virginia
West Monroe High School Marching Band – West Monroe, Louisiana
American Veterans – National
Boy Scouts of America – National
US Customs and Border Protection Office of Field Operations – National
Disabled American Veterans – National
US Border Patrol Pipes & Drums – National
Wounded Warriors – National
Kids Overseas- National

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