US President And Vice President Inauguration: Held In Capitol Rotunda, Trump Uses Two Bibles

Donald Trump and JD Vance. (Wikimedia Commons/Flickr/US Department of Homeland Security)

JAKARTA - The President-elected of the United States will use two Bibles while Vice President-elect JD Vance will use the family heritage Bible, when both are sworn in as President and Vice President of the United States on Monday.

Different from the inauguration which is usually held outside the Capitol Building, Washington DC, this year's inauguration will be held in Rotunda, the Capitol Building.

This year, cold and brutal winds are expected to hit Washington DC on Monday. Temperatures are expected to hit -11 degrees Celsius to -5 degrees Celsius, quoted from BBC January 20.

Last Friday, Trump announced via social media that he had asked for a change in location due to the weather. He does not "want to see people injured, or injured, in any way", he wrote.

Thus, taking oaths, speeches and other processions will be moved into the Capitol, as well as viewing areas for guests, lawmakers, and high-ranking officials.

"The Joint Congressional Committee for the Inauguration Ceremony will honor the President-elect and the Presidential Inauguration Committee's request to move the 60th Inauguration Ceremony at the Capitol Building Rotunda," a spokesman for the Joint Congressional Committee for the Inauguration Ceremony (JCCIC) said in a post on the JCCIC website.

This is not the first time extreme weather has changed ceremonies. In 1985, President Ronald Reagan's inauguration was moved into a traditional room and parade was canceled due to the unusually cold weather.

Former President Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris and husband Doug Emhoff are scheduled to attend the Trump-Vance inauguration.

Other important guests who are expected to attend include former President Barack Obama, George W. Bush and his wife, Laura Bush and former Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi.

Although the Constitution does not determine who will take the oath of office of elected president, according to tradition, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, John Glover Roberts Jr., will take Trump's oath, being his fifth time, quoted from CBS News.

It is known that John Adams was the first president to take an oath of office from the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in 1797.

However, not all presidents were sworn in by the Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court. In 1923, Vice President Calvin Coolidge took an oath of office from his father, a public notary, in Vermont after President Warren Harding died.

Meanwhile, Lyndon Johnson was sworn in by a federal judge at Air Force One shortly after John F. Kennedy was killed in 1963.

Vice President JD Vance will take his oath by Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavinaugh, who Trump elected in 2018.

In 2009, Roberts slipped his tongue, saying a word wrongly, so President Obama at that time had to take the oath of second position at the White House in the future.

This year, Trump will use two Bibles, a personal Bible given to him by his mother in 1955 and a historic Lincoln Bible used at President Abraham Lincoln's inauguration in 1861.

Meanwhile, Vance will also take an oath on a personal Bible, a copy of the family belonging to his great grandmother from his mother's side.

After being inaugurated, Trump will deliver his inauguration speech. This is usually used by the inaugurated president to determine his goals for the next four years. Trump's speech theme is reportedly about unity, strength and 'justice'.