What time did each pre-Trump speaker take the stage at the January 6 Ellipse event?

1. The official permit and contemporary reporting set the stage but not the minute-by-minute script

Event paperwork and contemporaneous local reporting show the Women for America First permit scheduled programming on the Ellipse from approximately 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and several outlets conveyed that Trump was expected to speak in the late morning (around 11:00 a.m.) or — as some official timelines record — beginning about noon for an hour-plus address ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}. Those same sources confirm multiple speakers were booked to speak before Trump, but the permit and press summaries publish the block times for the event rather than discrete start times for individual speakers, so they cannot by themselves answer “what time did each pre‑Trump speaker take the stage?” ^{[1] [2]}.

2. Known speakers are documented; their individual start times are not in the supplied reporting

Reporting and post-event investigations identify numerous pre-Trump participants on the Ellipse program — names repeatedly cited include Alex Jones, Michael Flynn, George Papadopoulos, Roger Stone, Rudy Giuliani, Diamond and Silk, Julio Gonzalez and others who were linked to Women for America First’s “March for Trump” or the broader “Save America” events that day ^{[2] [1] [5]}. Those sources list who spoke or appeared but do not attach clock times to each appearance; Rolling Stone and other accounts focus on organizer communications, logistics and who appeared rather than publishing an event-minute log with individual speaker timestamps ^[5].

3. Conflicting time references for Trump’s own remarks show limitations in the record

Different official and media sources give slightly different timestamps for Trump’s speech: some contemporaneous reporting and permits anticipated an 11:00 a.m. start ^{[1] [3]}, while post-event timelines assembled by investigators and compendia describe Trump beginning an “over one-hour speech” at noon ^{[4] [2]}. This variation underscores the patchwork quality of public documentation for the Ellipse programming and demonstrates why assigning precise times to the earlier speakers — who filled the morning block — is difficult from the supplied materials alone ^{[4] [3]}.

4. Organizers’ own messages and later reporting complicate an after-the-fact timeline

Investigative pieces and document releases reveal that organizers communicated about multiple stages, sequencing and even intentions to move people between events, and they withheld or framed information about logistics in ways that affected official planning and later reconstruction of the day ^{[5] [6]}. Those internal exchanges are useful to reconstruct motives and logistics but the excerpts provided do not contain a comprehensive speaker-by-speaker timetable that would definitively answer the question of exact start times for each pre‑Trump speaker ^{[5] [6]}.

5. What the available record can and cannot answer — and where to look next

From the supplied sources it is possible to state reliably that the Ellipse program was authorized for a broad 9 a.m.–5 p.m. window, that Trump’s remarks were expected in the late morning and are described in some records as beginning near noon, and that many named figures spoke before him; however, none of the provided documents publish a verified minute‑by‑minute schedule listing the clock time each pre‑Trump speaker began their remarks ^{[1] [3] [4] [2] [5]}. To obtain per‑speaker timestamps, the next steps would be to consult the Department of the Interior/National Park Service permit files and ancillary staffing logs, the House Select Committee and related investigative exhibits (transcripts and video logs), contemporaneous broadcast/video recordings with timestamp metadata, or any official event run sheets if they have been released; those sources are not included among the excerpts provided here, so this analysis cannot supply the precise stage times requested ^{[7] [5]}.