(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 ...

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 ...

During his 2017 inauguration, Trump placed his hand on a family Bible stacked atop Lincoln's while taking the oath. While ...

President Trump did not place his hand on a stack of two Bibles held by first lady Melania Trump as he was sworn into office ...

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 ...

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.

According to Merriam-Webster, an oath of office is defined as “an official promise by a person who has been elected to a public office to fulfill the duties of the office according to the law.” ...

On Jan. 6, Fanone was dragged into the crowd at the mouth of the Capitol’s Lower West Terrace Tunnel — the corridor presidents typically traverse before taking the oath of office — where he ...