Trump has taken this oath formally twice, during his 2017 and 2025 inaugurations, as required in Article II. Indeed, the framers of the Constitution deemed the presidential oath to be so important ...

According to Article VI, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution, members of Congress, state legislatures, and executive and judicial officers are bound "by oath or affirmation" to support the Constitution.

On January 20, Donald Trump will take the oath of office for his second term as President of the United States and JD Vance will be sworn in as vice president. Skip Navigation.

The longstanding tradition of taking the presidential oath with one hand on a Bible stretches back to George Washington and was observed by Mr. Trump in 2017. But doing so is not a requirement.

Trump, 78, raised his right hand and took the oath of office using a Bible his mother gave him in 1955 that was stacked on a second Bible used by President Abraham Lincoln for his swearing-in in 1861.