Trump will swear on the Bible given to him by his mother and the Lincoln Bible
US President-elect Donald Trump will hold two Bibles during his inauguration on Monday. The 60th inauguration of the President.
Trump will use his 1955 Bible, given to him by his mother, to “celebrate his graduation from Sunday School Primary at the First Presbyterian Church in Jamaica, New York.”
The religious text is the 1953 Revised Standard Version published by Thomas Nelson and Sons in New York. Trump’s name is exaggerated on the bottom of the cover and on the inside of the cover are the signatures of church officials, an inscription of the president’s name and details of when it was presented to him.
In addition to the Sentimental Bible, the Lincoln Bible, which was first used in 1861 for the inauguration of the 16th President of the United States, will be used.
“It has only been used three times since then. By President Obama at each of his inaugurations and President Trump’s first inauguration in 2017,” Trump’s team said. The burgundy velvet-bound book is part of the collections of the Library of Congress.”
President Obama was also sworn in Two Gospels in 2013The Associated Press reported on this. One belonged to Martin Luther King Jr. and the other to a Lincoln Bible.
Michelle Obama holds a Lincoln Bible as she arrives for the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States on the West Front of the Capitol on January 20, 2009 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson)
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When Trump is sworn in as the 47th president of the United States in the Capitol rotunda, he will do so in front of a bust of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in a federal celebration commemorating King’s legacy.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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