President Donald Trump, with his usual bombast, has declared that his second term will be a new “golden age” for the country.

Donald Trump is sworn in as the 47th president of the United States by Chief Justice John Roberts as Melania Trump holds the Bible during the 60th Presidential Inauguration in the Rotunda of the US Capitol in Washington, DC on January 20, 2025. (Photo by Morry Gash / POOL / AFP) (Photo by MORRY GASH/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Legally speaking, it doesn't matter whether the U.S. president placed his hand on a bible. And he wouldn't be the first not to.

In summoning people to his vision for the future, Donald Trump assembled a dizzying collage of time-honored and time-worn American myths, tropes and ideals

“What are we waiting on? Donald Trump’s face should be on Mount Rushmore. We got the votes in the house. We got the votes in the senate. I know a guy whose gonna sign it named Donald John Trump,” Lewandowski added to a smirking Johnson.

Before Joseph R. Biden Jr. was sworn in 2021, Donald J. Trump held the record for the country’s oldest commander in chief. He reclaimed the record on Monday.

The answer is simple: there is no greater or more idealistic symbol of U.S. power in the world than the Panama Canal. As Trump seeks a way to enhance the country's power in the world, leaning on imagery regarding the Panama Canal provides just the right message.

Donald Trump will make history when he is ... Only two presidents were younger than Clinton when they were sworn in, Theodore Roosevelt was 42 years of age and John F. Kennedy was 43.

Wander through its corridors, as Donald Trump will soon do ... he might consider the TR notion irrelevant today. Mr. Trump might also hear Theodore Roosevelt say, “If you could kick the person ...

Which president had the longest inaugural address? Which has been sworn in the most? Which ended the ceremony’s top-hat tradition? Here are some tidbits you might not know about Inauguration Day.

You can learn some interesting things about Trump by looking at his predecessors. Like some of them, he's savvy enough to turn to businessmen to get America back on track.