Trump took the oath of office on Monday immediately after Vice President JD Vance was sworn in by Associate Supreme Court ...

Images from the inauguration show President Trump did not put his hand on a Bible as he was sworn in by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. It is not required in the Constitution.

becoming the 47th president of the United States. However, some on social media have wondered if Trump failed to correctly take his oath by doing so without a hand on the Bible. VERIFY reader Ruth ...

President Obama also took the oath of office on two Bibles back in 2013, the Associated Press reported. One was owned by Martin Luther King Jr. and the other was the Lincoln Bible. When Trump is ...

When Donald Trump is sworn in as the 47th president on Monday, January 20, 2025, he will take an oath and raise his right hand while placing his left on a Bible. At his first inauguration in 2017 ...

There are at least two recorded inaugurations in which the president did not swear their oath on a Bible. The first was in 1825, when John Quincy Adams took his oath “while reading a volume of ...