President-elect Donald Trump will hold two Bibles during his swearing-in ceremony on Monday, the highlight of the 60th Presidential Inauguration.
Trump will use his Bible, given to him by his mother in 1955, to “mark his graduation from the Sunday Church Primary School at the First Presbyterian Church in Jamaica, New York,” according to a press release from his inaugural committee.
The religious text is a 1953 revised standard version published by Thomas Nelson and Sons in New York. Trump’s name is embossed on the lower portion of the front and on the inside cover are signatures of church officials, an inscription of the president’s name, and details of when it was presented to him.
In addition to the sentimental Bible, the Lincoln Bible will also be used, which was first used in 1861 to swear in the 16th American president.
“It has only been used three times since, by President Obama at each of his inaugurations and by President Trump at his first inauguration in 2017,” Trump’s team said. “The burgundy velvet-bound book is part of the collections of the Library of Congress.”
President Obama also took the oath of office two Bibles in 2013reported the Associated Press. One belonged to Martin Luther King Jr. and the other was the Lincoln Bible.
Michelle Obama holds the Lincoln Bible as she arrives at the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States of America on the West Side 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 do so in front of a bust of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on the federal holiday commemorating King’s legacy.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
