President-elect Donald Trump and Melania Trump kicked off Inauguration Day with a longtime custom: Attending providers at St. John’s Episcopal Church throughout Lafayette Sq..
Trump was joined by Vice President-elect JD Vance and his spouse Usha, and amongst these attending had been Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta; Jeff Bezos, the founding father of Amazon, and fiance Lauren Sanchez; Apple CEO Tim Prepare dinner; Elon Musk; and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai. Additionally current: Rupert Murdoch, TikTok CEO Shou Chew; UFC’s Dana White and Boris Johnson, the previous British prime minister, per a pool report.
The temperature in Washington this morning is 24 levels, with the windchill even decrease, a purpose why Trump determined to maneuver the swearing in ceremony indoors. That set off a scramble for seats, because the Capitol Rotunda, the place the ceremony will happen, solely holds a couple of thousand folks.
Donald Trump arrives at St. John’s Church together with Melania Trump. Mark Zuckerberg is within the background. (Photograph by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Photographs)
St. John’s, generally known as the church of presidents, holds significance from the primary Trump time period. It’s the place Trump held up a Bible after strolling with members of his administration from the White Home. It was amid 2020 protests and riots following the dying of George Floyd, and moments earlier, authorities from Park Police had cleared the world of demonstrators.
The service lasted for about 25 minutes and completed with a rendition of “America the Stunning.”
Earlier, the Trump staff launched some excerpts of what he would say in his inaugural deal with to The Wall Avenue Journal. Trump plans to proclaim a “new period of nationwide success” and name for a “revolution of widespread sense.”
Meta and Fb CEO Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Google Sundar Pichai, CEO of Apple Tim Prepare dinner, Founding father of Amazon and Blue Origin Jeff Bezos attend providers as a part of Inauguration ceremonies at St. John’s Church. (Photograph by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Photographs)
Photograph by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Photographs
“My message to Individuals immediately is that it’s time for us to as soon as once more act with braveness, vigor and the vitality of historical past’s biggest civilization,” Trump will say, per the Journal.
The president is anticipated to signal dozens of govt orders immediately — greater than 200, per Fox Information, together with these coping with the border and immigration, the federal workforce and oil drilling. One govt order will carry an electrical automobile mandate, one of many signature efforts of the Biden administration to handle local weather change.
