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Trump will be sworn in on two Bibles: the one used by Lincoln and the one his mother gave him
All eyes will be on Washington tomorrow. Donald Trump will be sworn in for the second time as president, in a ceremony that will be unlike any other. The swearing-in ceremony will take place indoors, inside the Capitol, in the Rotunda, as it was for Ronald Reagan in 1985, as polar cold is expected in the US tomorrow.
Trump's team has announced on social media that the parade will take place in an arena with a capacity of 20,000 seats, very small for an inauguration ceremony. It will certainly be easier for the secret services, after two assassination attempts. There will also be less concern about comparisons between the sizes of the crowds at these ceremonies and other inauguration ceremonies. The losers are the media, which will have very limited access, even if the ceremony is broadcast on TV.
Giorgia Meloni has made her presence official and will be accompanied by an FDI delegation, with Carlo Fidanza, head of the delegation to the European Parliament, Andrea di Giuseppe, elected in the US, and Antonio Giordano, secretary general of the European conservative and reformist party.
Trump has changed protocol (which normally excludes foreign leaders) by inviting several. Argentine Javier Milei has also confirmed his presence, Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa, Viktor Orbán will not be there (but he could change his mind), and Chinese President Xi Jinping, who will send Vice President Han Zeng, an attendance that CNN has described as historic. Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro also wanted to come, but his passport was confiscated due to investigations into his name.
Venezuela's president-elect, Edmundo González Urrutia, an invitation that underlines support for a democratic transition in opposition to Chavismo, and perhaps El Salvador's Nayib Bukele, whom the Republicans see as a model for the fight against crime, should be there. For Japan and India, foreign ministers are coming. For the European far right: Britain's Nigel Farage, France's Maréchal and Eric Zemmour and one of the leaders of the German AfD party, Tino Chrupalla, the leader of the Spanish Vox formation Santiago Abascal, that of the Portuguese right-wing party Chega, André Ventura. Big names in technology were present: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg, Tik Tok CEOs Shou Zi Chew, OpenAI Sam Altman, Apple's Tim Cook, Google's Sundar Pichai and Xavier Niel from Iliad.
Present, according to tradition, are outgoing President Joe Biden and his wife Jill, with Vice President Kamala Harris (defeated in the election) and her husband.
Former President Barack Obama will also be there, but without his wife Michelle, who gave a very strong speech against Trumpism at the Democratic convention in Chicago (calling on people to "act" and not just talk). Ursula von der Leyen was not invited. George W. Bush with his wife Laura, Bill and Hillary Clinton are in attendance. Mike Pence, Trump's former vice president with whom he fell out when he refused to overturn the 2020 election result, is also considering being there. The Rotunda, where the ceremony will take place, is one of the sites occupied by rebels on January 6, 2021.
Country singer Carrie Underwood and tenor Christopher Macchio will perform at the ceremony. The president will swear to defend the Constitution on two Bibles, the one used by Lincoln at his 1861 inauguration and the one his mother gave Donald in 1955. / Adapted from “Pamphlet” by “Corriere della Sera”
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