Trump Uses Lincoln’s Bible To Take Oath

President-elect Donald Trump kept the long tradition of swearing in by laying his hand on the historic Lincoln Bible at the US Capitol facing the majestic National Mall to take oath as the 45th President.

In fact, Bible is now considered to be sacrosanct to the presidential inauguration ceremonies to this oldest democracy of the world. In recent history, only a few times in adverse circumstances a US president has not used a bible for swearing in. It was on September 14, 1901 when the then Vice President Theodore Roosevelt was sworn in after the assassination of President William McKinley that no bible was used.

The First US President George Washington used the Bible from St John's Masonic Lodge No 1 for his swearing in on April 30, 1789.

Ronald Regan used the family bible given to him by his mother for both his swearing ins in 1981 and 1985. George H W Bush used family Bible and the Bible used by George Washington In his first inauguration in 2009 Barack Obama used the Lincoln Bible and in his second inauguration he also used the Dr Martin Luther King Jr's Bible. Trump was sworn-in using his Bible, as well as the same Bible that President Lincoln used at his first inauguration.