Trump will be sworn in with a Bible given to him by his mother and a Lincoln Bible.
President-elect Donald Trump holds two Bibles as he takes the oath of office at his 60th presidential inauguration on Monday.
Trump in 2016
The religious text is a 1953 revised standard edition published by Thomas Nelson and Sons of New York. Trump’s name is emblazoned on the bottom of the front cover and inside the cover are signatures of church officials, detailing the president’s name and when it was presented to him.
In addition to the Mood Bible, the Lincoln Bible, which was first used to inaugurate the 16th President of the United States in 1861, is used.
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“Since then, it has been used only three times by each of President Obama’s terms in office and by President Trump during his first election in 2017,” the Trump team said. “The burgundy velvet-covered book is part of the collections of the Library of Congress.”
President Obama was sworn in on two Bibles in 2013, the Associated Press reported. One belonged to Martin Luther King Jr. and the other was Lincoln’s Bible.
Michelle Obama holds a Lincoln Bible during the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States on the West Front of the Capitol on January 20, 2009 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson)
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When Trump is sworn in as the 47th president of the United States in the Capitol Rotunda, he will come face-to-face with the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., during federal holidays commemorating King’s legacy.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
