President-elect Donald Trump will place his hand on two Bibles during his inauguration on Monday, at the top of 60th President's Glass.
Trump will use his Bible, given to him by his mother in 1955, to “mark his Sunday School graduation from the First Presbyterian Church, Jamaica, New York,” a press release from the committee said. his opening says.
The religious text is a revised version of 1953 published by Thomas Nelson and Sons in New York. Trump's name is spelled out at the bottom of the front cover, and inside the cover are the signatures of the church officials, the inscription of the president's name and details of when it was presented to him.
In addition to the emotional Bible, the Lincoln Bible will be used, which was first used in 1861 to swear in the 16th president of the United States.
“It has only been used three times since then, by President Obama on each of his glasses and by President Trump when he was first inaugurated in 2017,” Trump's team says.
President Obama also took the oath of office Two Bibles back in 2013The Associated Press reports. One was Martin Luther King Jr. and the other was Lincoln's 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 Jan. 20, 2009, Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson)
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When Trump is sworn in as the 47th President of the United States in the rotunda of the Capitol, he will do so in the face of Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. on a federal holiday commemorating King's legacy.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.