It is no longer news that the U.S. President-elect, Donald Trump, will be inaugurated on Monday, January 20, as the 47th president of the country.
Trump will assume office in the White House following the expiration of the tenure of the incumbent President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, who lost to Trump in the election.
As the inauguration approaches with every passing second, minute, hour, and day, there remains limited information about the swearing-in, particularly among individuals outside the U.S.
In this article, The New Daily Prime highlights key details about the event as Trump prepares to take the oath of office alongside his Vice President-elect, JD Vance.
- Trump will take the oath of office at noon on Monday, January 20, at the West Front of the U.S. Capitol.
- He will become the second president after Grover Cleveland to serve two non-consecutive terms.
- All living former U.S. presidents will attend the swearing ceremony.
- Argentina’s President Javier Milei will attend the ceremony.
- Prominent figures like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg will have reserved seats.
- Over 11,000 police and National Guard troops will be deployed to ensure security for the estimated crowd of 250,000 attendees.
- The U.S. Capitol flags, which are currently at half-staff to honour former President Jimmy Carter, will fly at full-staff on Inauguration Day.
- Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts will administer the oath of office to Trump for the fifth time in his career.
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- Trump’s wife, Melania will hold the Bible during the oath, as she did eight years ago.
- The ceremony will mark only the second time an inauguration falls on Martin Luther King Jr. Day (celebrated on the third Monday of January each year).
- The weather forecast predicts a sunny but windy day with highs in the mid-20s.
- Trump’s inaugural address is expected to follow the tradition of past speeches, with his previous one in 2017 lasting 17 minutes.
- Trump will recite the following: “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of president of the United States, and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
- Trump will hold up his right hand and place his left on a Bible
- More than 220,000 tickets will be sold for the inauguration ceremony.
- The presidential oath of office is written into the U.S. Constitution.
- Trump will be only the fortieth person to give an inaugural address.
- Trump may or may not wear a top hat to the inauguration as John F. Kennedy was the last president to wear it.
- The inauguration ceremony was moved from March to January 20.
- Thirty-seven inaugurations have been held in March.
- George Washington was the only elected president not to be inaugurated in either January or March.
