In tandem with the inauguration of President Donald Trump, the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., is preparing to offer visitors an up-close glimpse of a uniquely personal element used ...

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… ...

The tradition of swearing the oath of office on a Bible stretches back to George Washington, but not all presidents have observed it. By Elizabeth Dias National religion correspondent As Donald J.

The ink that blacked out the faces of a Japanese American woman and the sleeping toddler in her arms was the kind of hateful vandalism seemingly aimed at defacing not just public art but history ...

(Morry Gash – Pool/Getty Images) The U.S. Constitution does not stipulate that a president-to-be place his or her hand on a Bible when taking the Oath, because each president who recites this ...

Some onlookers observed that President Donald Trump didn't place his hand on the Bible when sworn in at his inauguration, prompting questions about how the Bible traditionally factors into the ...

Video and photos show that Trump recited the oath from Roberts without placing his hand on the Lincoln Bible, first used to swear in the 16th U.S. president, and a Bible his mother gave him in 1955.

Now people are questioning that gesture, and wondering if the president can be sworn in without using a Bible. The answer is quite simple: Yes. Here’s why. Article VI, Clause 3 of the U.S ...

Melania Trump was holding a Bible Donald Trump's mother gave him in 1955. She also was holding a Bible used by President Abraham Lincoln for his oath of office in 1861.

So help me God. So help me God. Congratulations Mr. Vice President. JD Vance was sworn in as vice president on Monday.The Bible he used has Kentucky roots.While Vance is from Middletown ...