President-elect Trump will use a Bible that was given to him by his mom, in addition to the Lincoln Bible, for his swearing-in Monday.
Trump’s late mom, Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, gave him the Bible in 1955 to mark his Sunday Church Main College commencement at First Presbyterian Church in Jamaica, N.Y., in keeping with the Trump Inaugural Committee.
The within cowl of the Bible is signed by church officers and inscribed with Trump’s identify and particulars of when it was gifted to him.
He can even use the Lincoln Bible, which was first used for President Lincoln’s 1861 swearing-in and has been used 3 times since. Former President Obama used it at his two inaugurations, in 2009 and 2013, and Trump used it in his 2017 inauguration.
Vice President-elect JD Vance will use a Bible that belonged to his maternal great-grandmother for his swearing-in. His grandmother gave it to him in 2003 on the day he left for the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in South Carolina, in keeping with the committee.
The Bible that Trump used for his 2017 inauguration, which was positioned on high of the Lincoln Bible, was additionally gifted to him by his mom and is on show on the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C.
