(NEXSTAR) – President Donald Trump, when taking his most recent oath of office, did not appear to place his left hand on ...

Trump was sworn in as the 47th president of the United States on Monday, Jan. 20, taking the presidential oath without ...

During his 2017 inauguration, Trump used both a family Bible and the so-called Lincoln Bible, belonging to America’s 16th ...

President Donald Trump did not place his hand on the two Bibles held by his wife, Melania Trump, when he took his second oath ...

President Trump didn't place his hand on a Bible when he took his oath of office on Jan. 20, 2025. He’s not the first ...

President Donald Trump faced backlash after critics noted that he did not place his hand on the Bible during his inauguration ...

Trump became president moments after noon, taking the oath read by Chief Justice John Roberts. Trump was joined by his wife ...

During his oath, Trump did not place his hand atop the Bible, a moment that quickly took over on social media as people watching at home took notice. #BREAKING: Donald Trump is sworn in as the 47th ...

Readers of the Baron de Montesquieu’s “The Spirit of Laws” — they cited no book but the Bible more often than ... federal service at all, that oath of office is still with us, for public ...

Earlier Friday, Trump's inaugural committee announced that, like his first inauguration, Trump would take the oath of office on a family Bible given to him by his mother as well as the Bible used ...

An oil painting of George Washington taking the oath of office as the first president of the United States ... down to Harry Truman has always taken that oath with his hand on the Bible,” Waldrop ...

This was the context for Griswold’s story that Washington added “so help me God” as he took the oath of office. And it helps explain why that story won immediate and widespread acceptance.