Trump takes oath as 47th US President, returns to White House for second term


Washington, Jan 20 (IANS): Business mogul and Republican Party member Donald Trump returned to the White House on Monday for a historic second term by taking the oath as the 47th President of the US.

The oath was administered by Chief Justice John Roberts at the Capitol Rotunda.

Earlier, outgoing President Joe Biden and Trump rode together to the US Capitol for the latter's oath-taking programme after a traditional tea ceremony at the White House along with their wives, Kamala Harris and her successor J.D. Vance and their spouses.

Jill Biden and Melania Trump rode together to the Capitol in a separate car as did Kamala Harris and her successor J.D. Vance.

This is only the second instance of the swearing-in taking place indoors -- the last time was in 1985 when President Ronald Reagan took the oath for his second term.

Earlier, Biden welcomed Trump to the White House for a traditional tea ceremony with two words: “Welcome home”, according to media reports.

Guests for the swearing-in had begun arriving at the Capitol Rotunda where the ceremony took place; indoors instead of the traditional venue outside.

This was only the second instance of the swearing-in took place indoors; the last time was in 1985 when President Ronald Reagan took the oath for his second term.

Trump’s return to the White House is also only the second time for an American President to serve two non-consecutive terms. The first was Grover Cleveland at the end of the 19th century.

The swearing-in was attended by Trump’s nominees to the cabinet such as Marco Rubio, for secretary of state, who is expected to be the first to be confirmed, as early as Monday.

Trump started Monday’s inauguration proceedings by attending a private service at St John’s Church with the incoming first lady Melania Trump, J.D. Vance and wife Usha Vance and some members of the cabinet.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Apple’s Tim Cook, Tesla and Space X’s Elon Musk, and Google’s Sundar Pichai also attended the swearing-in ceremony.

Former President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary Clinton, former President George W Bush and his wife Laura Bush, and former President Barack Obama minus his wife Michelle Obama attended the oath-taking ceremony as is the tradition, which was broken by President Trump who skipped Biden’s inauguration in 2021.

 

 

  

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  • Deepika Jain, Mangalore

    Tue, Jan 21 2025

    Congratulations President Trump !! .The liberals will have a major melt down today , after advocating for Kamala Harris and canvassing for her.

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  • Micheal JF, Kudla

    Tue, Jan 21 2025

    Ever since Trump took oath, there are no reports of anti Israel demonstrations in the US.

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  • nitin shetty, bangalore, udupi

    Tue, Jan 21 2025

    We haven't see this kind of style and elegance since Jackie Kennedy. Lovely, just lovely oath taking ceremony.

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  • Navneeth, Mangalore

    Tue, Jan 21 2025

    Congrats to Trump. Well deserved victory. Meanwhile, I have seen tweets from the Indian leadership, but not seen any congratulatory messages from the Leaders who attended the Kamala Harris rally.

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  • Monty Dotor, Mangalore

    Tue, Jan 21 2025

    Namaste Trump.

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  • GURKA, mangalore

    Tue, Jan 21 2025

    Atleast we will not see any WARS and terrorism

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  • william, Mangalore

    Tue, Jan 21 2025

    Congratulations to Trump and all best wishes. Americans are lucky to have such a powerful and straightforward President.

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  • David Pais, Mangalore

    Tue, Jan 21 2025

    Congratulations to Donald John Trump as USA President. As for seek blessings from almighty God I quote from the Daijiworld web portal news:Trump started Monday’s inauguration proceedings by attending a private service at St John’s Church with the incoming first lady Melania Trump, J.D. Vance and wife Usha Vance and some members of the cabinet. Unquote.

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Raheja Waterfront

    Tue, Jan 21 2025

    Looking forward to the 48th ...

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  • Kiran Poojary, Mangaluru/Bengaluru

    Tue, Jan 21 2025

    Have patience for 4 years

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  • Sandeep, Ududpi

    Tue, Jan 21 2025

    Hoping for direct flight to US from Mangalore

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  • Daniel, Mangalore

    Tue, Jan 21 2025

    Sir Jossey, Why 48th so early ? For Bill Gates, Anthony 'Fraudcy' and Communist Chinese drastic depopulating another pandemic ? And for it cardiac arresting, brain clotting, turbo cancering or mass murdering, mass sterilizing, autism causing and to further control population and for divide and rule multiple gendering through gene editing with (CRISPR /cas9) mRNA injections ? President Trump already withdrew US from liberal communist controlled WHO! Last 4 years of death and destruction worldwide through so called pandemics and wars is not enough ?

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  • Wilfred J Lewis, Matpady-Brahmavar/ New York, USA

    Tue, Jan 21 2025

    Congratulations Mr. President.

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  • Wilfred J Lewis, Matpady-Brahmavar/ New York, USA

    Tue, Jan 21 2025

    Congratulations Mr. President.

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