President-elect Donald Trump will use his personal Bible and the Lincoln Bible to take the Oath of Office on Monday, the Trump-Vance Inaugural Committee announced Friday.
Trump’s personal Bible was given to him by his mother in 1955 to mark his Sunday Church Primary School graduation at First Presbyterian Church in Jamaica, New York.
Used by Trump during his first inauguration in 2017, the president-elect’s Bible is a 1953 revised standard version published by Thomas Nelson and Sons in New York and is embossed with his name on the lower portion of the front cover.
The inside cover of Trump’s personal Bible is signed by church officials and inscribed with the president-elect’s name and details of when it was presented to him, the Inaugural Committee said.
Trump will also use the Lincoln Bible, as he did in 2017, to take the Oath of Office on Monday.
The Lincoln Bible, a burgundy velvet-bound book which is part of the collections of the Library of Congress, was first used on March 4, 1861 for the swearing-in of President Abraham Lincoln.
The Bible is 1,280 pages and was published in 1853 by the Oxford University Press.
Trump’s usage of the Lincoln Bible on Monday will mark the fourth time since Lincoln’s inauguration it has been used by a president taking the Oath of Office.
The Inaugural Committee also announced that Vice President-elect JD Vance will take the Oath of Office on his family Bible that belonged to his maternal great-grandmother.
Often referred to by the vice president-elect as “Mamaw,” Vance’s grandmother, Bonnie Blanton Vance, presented the Bible to him on September 22, 2003, the day he left home for the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in Paris Island, South Carolina, according to the Inaugural Committee.
Vance’s family Bible is a King James Version published by Thomas Nelson and Sons.
Monday’s Inauguration Ceremony will take place inside the U.S. Capitol Rotunda at noon EST.
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Kaitlin on X / Twitter.
