President-elect Donald Trump will hold two Bibles during his swearing-in ceremony on Monday, the culmination 60th presidential inauguration.
Trump will use his Bible, given to him by his mother in 1955, to “mark his graduation from Primary Sunday School at First Presbyterian Church, Jamaica, New York,” according to a statement from his inauguration committee.
The Faith Text is the 1953 Revised Standard Version published by Thomas Nelson and Sons in New York. Trump’s name is stamped in the lower part of the front cover, and inside the cover are the signatures of the church officials, the inscription of the name of the president and information about when it was handed over to him.
In addition to the sentimental Bible, the Lincoln Bible will also be used, with which the 16th American president was sworn in for the first time in 1861.
“Since then it has only been used three times, by President Obama at each of his inaugurations and by President Trump at his first inauguration in 2017,” according to the Trump team. “The burgundy velvet-bound book is part of the Library of Congress’s collections.”
President Obama was also sworn in two Bibles back in 2013the Associated Press reported. One was owned by Martin Luther King Jr. and the other was Lincoln’s Bible.
Michelle Obama holds the Lincoln Bible as she arrives for 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 inside the Capitol rotunda, he will do so facing a bust of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. on a federal holiday commemorating King’s legacy.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
