President-elect Trump will use a Bible that was given to him by his mother, as well as the Lincoln Bible, for his swearing in on Monday.
Trump’s late mother, Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, gave him the Bible in 1955 to mark his Sunday Church Primary School graduation at First Presbyterian Church in Jamaica, N.Y., according to the Trump Inaugural Committee.
The inside cover of the Bible is signed by church officials and inscribed with Trump’s name and details of when it was gifted to him.
He will also use the Lincoln Bible, which was first used for President Lincoln’s 1861 swearing in and has been used three times since. President Obama used it at his two inaugurations, in 2009 and 2013, and Trump used it in his 2017 inauguration.
Vice President-elect Vance will use a Bible that belonged to his maternal great-grandmother for his swearing-in. His grandmother gave it to him in 2003 on the day he left for the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in South Carolina, according to the committee.
The Bible that Trump used for his 2017 inauguration, which was placed on top of the Lincoln Bible, was also gifted to him by his mother and is on display at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C.
