President Trump doesn’t put hand on Bible when taking oath
Trump did not place his hand on a stack of two Bibles held by first lady Melania Trump during his swearing-in ceremony

The Mirror • January 21, 2025 ~ SCMP Latin Times
President Donald Trump took the oath of office without placing his hand on the bible.
Trump did not place his hand on a stack of two Bibles held by first lady Melania Trump during his swearing-in, but instead he stood with his left arm down by his side as he raised his right hand for the oath of office.
Some commentators have blamed Melania for not bringing it quickly enough to her husband. “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States,” Trump said.

Trump was supposed to put his hand on two different Bibles during the swearing-in ceremony.
His inaugural committee announced on Friday that the same bibles he used in January 2017 would be present, one that Abraham Lincoln put his hand on in 1861 and a personal one gifted to him by his mother in 1955.
The US constitution does not require a Bible for oath of office, but the tradition began back in 1789 when George Washington borrowed one from a Masonic Lodge in New York City.
On Monday afternoon Donald Trump became America’s 47th president as he took the oath of office in Washington, DC, on Monday. Trump claimed that he was “saved by God to make America great again” in his inaugural speech which was littered with discriminatory and bold statements, which ranged from transphobia to promises to issue executive orders declaring an emergency at the border.
“My life was saved for a reason,” the president said. “I was saved by God to make America great again.” He later added, “For American citizens, Jan 20, 2025, is liberation day.”
He also made a strange statement about the California wildfires, attempting to play on the heartstrings of those gathered as he detailed the homes of the rich and famous that were destroyed, snubbing the homes of others who were less fortunate who were destroyed and failing to mention all of those who were displaced and have nowhere else to go.

Panamanian president José Raúl Mulino has repeatedly rejected the notion that there is Chinese interference in the Panama Canal. “There is absolutely not any interference” from the country, Mulino said during a press briefing on December 26, adding that “there are no Chinese soldiers in the canal, for the love of God.” “There is not a single Chinese soldier in the canal.”
Of the southern border, Trump harrowingly said, “I will send troops to the southern border to repel the disastrous invasion of our country.” He said he would declare a national emergency with an executive order as one of his first orders of business after the ceremony.
He also heinously said he’d sign one declaring that there are only two genders, stating, “As of today, it will henceforth be the official policy of the US government that there are only two genders — male and female.”
He also plans to change the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America and of the Panama Canal, “We’re taking it back.”
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