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Images of Trump's second inauguration [1]
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Date: 2025-01-20 22:55:21+00:00
President-elect Donald J. Trump and his wife, Melania Trump, are greeted by President Biden and first lady Jill Biden upon arriving at the White House on the morning of January 20. The couples drank tea together before sharing a limousine to go to the U.S. Capitol, where Trump — having served an earlier, nonconsecutive term as 45th president — would be sworn in again, as the 47th president.
Donald Trump takes the oath of office administered by Chief Justice John Roberts as Melania Trump holds two Bibles (one given to Trump as a boy by his mother and the other used by Abraham Lincoln to take the oath in 1861).
The January 20 ceremony — the 60th presidential inauguration — was moved on short notice due to cold weather from outside to inside the Capitol Rotunda.
The new vice president, JD Vance, was sworn in by Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
After taking the oath, President Trump embraces his wife, Melania, and basks in the congratulatory applause of his children.
President Trump gives the inaugural address, a traditional speech by a newly sworn-in president. He speaks for a longer time than he did at his 2017 inauguration and nods to the fact that this year the inauguration coincides with the Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday. He also refers to his historic political comeback — saying, “In America, the impossible is what we do best” — and outlines policy plans and an optimistic vision of the coming four years.
President-elect Trump and his wife, Melania, watch fireworks at a celebration at Trump National Golf Club in a Virginia suburb of Washington two days before the inauguration.
After the president’s inaugural address, he joined a congressional lunch, after which he would attend an indoor parade at Capitol One Arena in Washington and then return to the White House to dress for formal inaugural balls held around the city.
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