Did you know that the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States will be the 60th U.S. presidential inauguration and that no African leaders have been officially invited?

The inauguration of Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States is expected to take place on Monday, January 20, 2025, but due to expected freezing temperatures and high winds, it will be held inside the United States Capitol rotunda in Washington, D.C. 

Here are some facts you need to know about the 60th U.S. presidential inauguration:

FACT 1: The second inauguration of Trump as U.S. president marks the commencement of his second and final non-consecutive term as U.S. president, the term of JD Vance as the 50th U.S. vice president, and the only non-consecutive re-inauguration for a U.S. president after the second inauguration of Grover Cleveland in 1893.

FACT 2: It is also the first presidential inauguration to take place indoors since Ronald Reagan's public ceremony in 1985. Trump's first inauguration was eight years earlier, in January 2017. The event will include a swearing-in ceremony, a signing ceremony, an inaugural luncheon, a pass-in-review, a procession, and a parade. Inaugural balls are held at various venues before and after the inaugural ceremonies.

FACT 3: Held on the third Monday of January, the inauguration will occur on the same day as Martin Luther King Jr. Day, which marks the second time an inauguration has occurred on the same date as the holiday following the second inauguration of Bill Clinton in 1997.

FACT 4: Leaders of various tech companies have pledged donations and services for the inauguration. Those that pledged and donated $1 million are: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, head of Meta and the parent company of Facebook and Instagram Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon's CEO, Jeff Bezos (offered to stream the ceremony on Amazon Prime amounting to a $1 million in-kind donation), Uber Technologies and its CEO Dara Khosrowshahi each donated $1 million, both Ford Motor Company and General Motors in addition to the donation pledged to provide a fleet of vehicles.

FACT 5: Several members of the Democratic Party in the 119th Congress have decided to boycott the inauguration. This boycott is perceived as an initial opposition to the incoming administration.

FACT 6: Serving and former U.S. presidents that will be in attendance include outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden (who defeated Trump in 2020 and was inaugurated as the 46th president in 2021), outgoing U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris (who had been Trump's main opponent in 2024), former U.S. presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama (whom Trump first succeeded in 2017).

FACT 7: Former first ladies Hillary Clinton (Trump's former opponent in 2016) and Laura Bush will also attend the inauguration. Former first lady Michelle Obama will skip the inauguration.

FACT 8: Foreign leaders invited to attend include Chinese president Xi Jinping (but will send vice president Han Zheng as his special representative instead, marking the first time a senior official of China's government has been sent to a US presidential inauguration). Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán, El Salvador's president Nayib Bukele, Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni, and last democratically-elected Georgian president Salome Zourabichvili, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Argentine president Javier Milei, former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro (he would need his confiscated passport to be returned by the government in order to travel), former British prime minister Liz Truss.

FACT 9: The foreign ministers of QUAD nations including, S. Jaishankar from India, Penny Wong from Australia, and Takeshi Iwaya from Japan. Others are French Reconquête politicians Éric Zemmour and Sarah Knafo, as well as Identity–Freedoms leader Marion Maréchal; Spanish Vox leader Santiago Abascal, Belgian Vlaams Belang leader Tom Van Grieken, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, Alternative for Germany co-leader Tino Chrupalla, and former Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. Members of the Bundestag Jan Wenzel Schmidt and Beatrix von Storch alongside her husband Sven von Storch. AfD co-leader Alice Weidel.

FACT 10: Business leaders to attend include Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg (three of the world's richest men). Also reported to attend the Inauguration are TikTok CEO, Shou Zi Chew, Apple's Tim Cook, Alphabet's Sundar Pichai, OpenAI's Sam Altman, and Uber's Dara Khosrowshahi.

Source: Wikipedia 

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