Ticket scalpers are reportedly struggling to sell on spaces for Donald Trump's inauguration ceremony due to a lack of demand.

The 20 January event has already been hit by performers pulling out—most recently, Bruce Springstreen tribute act the B Street Band.

One man told the NY Daily News he thought he would be able to flip a pair of tickets he bought for $700 for twice that amount, but has had no luck.

Yossi Rosenberg, 36, said: "It looks like I'm stuck with them, I might even have to go.

"I got offers before I got them, but then I get them and everybody balked.

"Someone offered me $200 for the pair. I guess his approval ratings aren't that high, right?"

Mr Trump will pay tribute to his British ancestry with a new poem inspired by Scotland at the ceremony on Friday.

The President-elect's mother, Mary Anne Macleod, is a Scot and grew up on the Hebridean island of Lewis.

The poem, which refers to snatching power from “a tyrant” who has “ill-gotten power” was written by celebrated American poet Joseph Charles McKenzie of the Society of Classical Poets.