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"Today, I will attend the Inauguration of President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance at the U. S. Capitol," Pence wrote on X. "This is a day when every American does well to celebrate our democracy and the peaceful transfer of power under the Constitution of the United States."

Trump came out swinging in his inaugural address, calling Jan. 20, 2025, “Liberation Day,” and vowing sweeping changes via a series of executive actions.

US Vice President-elect JD Vance and his wife Usha Chilukuri Vance were received by outgoing Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband Douglas Craig Emhoff

Melania Trump has been labelled a "shameless grifter ... to be delivered in the United States Capitol Rotunda, as was used by Ronald Reagan in 1985, also because of very cold weather," Trump ...

Donald Trump has said that he would be open to his billionaire ally Elon Musk or Oracle boss Larry Ellison buying the US arm of Chinese social video app TikTok from parent company ByteDance after granting it a 75-day reprieve on being banned in the US.

The inauguration is really about swearing in the next president, but first ladies throughout history have stolen the show with their inaugural gowns.

Trump will become the first president since Grover Cleveland to enter the White House for a non-consecutive second term, with the ceremony driven indoors for the first time since Ronald Reagan ’s second inauguration in 1985 by the punishing sub-zero temperatures currently blasting Washington DC.

Ronald Reagan began tradition of leaving letter to his successor in 1989 as he handed over power to George H.W. Bush

The inauguration of a US president is taking place indoors for the first time since 1985. On Monday, Donald Trump will become the first president since Ronald Reagan to take the oath of office inside the Capitol Rotunda building instead of on its terrace overlooking the Washington Mall.