Cabinet members, governors, and long-serving public servants are positioned in rows behind the tech billionaires, with only family seated ahead of them.
The guest list includes some of America’s most influential tech billionaires and politicians as well as some foreign leaders and celebrities who have embraced Trump.
In the 2024 presidential election, former president Donald Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris. Today, she will attend his inauguration, as a member of the outgoing administration. She just arrived inside the Rotunda with President Joe Biden:
Jill and Joe Biden warmly greet Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff at The White House ahead of their Inauguration Day tea with Donald and Melania Trump.
Former NHL player Wayne Gretzky was in attendance with his wife, Janet Jones. Trump has teased the former Edmonton Oilers, Los Angeles Kings and New York Rangers star. On Christmas Day, Trump urged Gretzky to become the next prime minister of Canada.
Donald Trump, who overcame impeachments, criminal indictments and a pair of assassination attempts to win another term in the White House, is set to be sworn in as the 47th U.S. president
Update 9:27 a.m. ET, Jan. 20: Today is not only Inauguration Day but it is also a federal holiday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day. But the work of Washington will continue. Several confirmation votes and meetings are scheduled to be held today.
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He alluded to recent reports of billionaire advisers Musk and Zuckerberg meeting with ... and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, praising Harris as a “historic vice president.”
President-elect Donald Trump will sign a pair of executive orders intended to roll back the Biden administration's efforts to recognize and accommodate transgender people at the federal level and end federal efforts to promote Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs, an incoming Trump White House aide has said.
The president was sworn in at noon inside the Capitol Rotunda. Though inauguration typically takes place on the Capitol's West Front overlooking the Ellipse, with temperatures in the low 20s, it was moved inside. The viewing, the Inaugural Parade and a celebration were all be held inside Capital One Arena.
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