Washington D. C. – Dignitaries from throughout Washington and world wide crammed into the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on Monday to look at energy switch peacefully from Democratic former President Joe Biden to his Republican successor, Donald Trump.
The photographs are particularly notable this yr given the ferocious animosity between the groups coming and going.
The photographs seize Biden, who framed his presidency as a bridge away from Trump’s first time period, partaking within the traditions of the workplace as he handed energy again to the person he’s dubbed a risk to democracy.
They seize Vice President Kamala Harris along with Trump and Vice President JD Vance, the working mates who defeated her in November following a bitter marketing campaign.
They present the billionaires who’ve made their means into Trump’s internal circle, a stark distinction to his first inauguration, when a lot of the nation’s elite shunned the disruptive chief.
And so they seize some lighthearted moments as effectively, together with former President George W. Bush winking and Trump trying to kiss his spouse, first girl Melania Trump, however being blocked by the brim of her hat.
–The Related Press
US President-elect Donald Trump arrives for his inauguration on January 20, 2025 within the Rotunda of the US Capitol in Washington, DC. Trump takes workplace for his second non-consecutive time period because the forty seventh president of the USA. (Photograph by Melina Mara / POOL / AFP) (Photograph by MELINA MARA/POOL/AFP through Getty Pictures) 
Donald Trump is sworn in because the forty seventh president of the USA by Chief Justice John Roberts as Melania Trump holds the Bible throughout the sixtieth Presidential Inauguration within the Rotunda of the US Capitol in Washington, DC on January 20, 2025. (Photograph by Kevin Lamarque / POOL / AFP) (Photograph by KEVIN LAMARQUE/POOL/AFP through Getty Pictures) 
Attendees cheer as President Donald Trump speaks after taking the oath of workplace throughout the sixtieth Presidential Inauguration within the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (Kenny Holston/The New York Occasions through AP, Pool) 
President Donald Trump shakes fingers with Supreme Court docket Chief Justice John Roberts after being sworn in as president throughout the sixtieth Presidential Inauguration within the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Pool Photograph through AP) 
President Donald Trump together with his spouse first girl Melanie Trump, in addition to his sons Barron Trump, Donald Trump, Jr., Eric Trump, left, and daughter Tiffany Trump, proper, after taking the oath of workplace throughout the sixtieth Presidential Inauguration within the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (Shawn Thew/Pool picture through AP) 
President-elect Donald Trump kisses Melania Trump earlier than the sixtieth Presidential Inauguration within the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (Saul Loeb/Pool picture through AP) 
President-elect Donald Trump arrives on the sixtieth Presidential Inauguration within the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (Kenny Holston/The New York Occasions through AP, Pool) 
From left, former President Invoice Clinton, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former President George W. Bush, former first girl Laura Bush and former President Barack Obama, arrive earlier than the sixtieth Presidential Inauguration within the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Pool Photograph through AP) 
Friends together with Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai and Elon Musk, arrive earlier than the sixtieth Presidential Inauguration within the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (AP Photograph/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, Pool) 
Elon Musk arrives earlier than the sixtieth Presidential Inauguration within the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Pool Photograph through AP) 
Apple CEO Tim Cook dinner smiles attends the inauguration of Donald Trump within the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. Donald Trump takes workplace for his second time period because the forty seventh president of the USA. (Photograph by Julia Demaree Nikhinson – Pool/Getty Pictures) 
Vice President Kamala Harris, middle proper, and second gentleman Doug Emhoff, middle left, pose with Vice President-elect JD Vance, proper, and his spouse Usha Vance, left, upon arriving on the White Home, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photograph/Evan Vucci) 
President Donald Trump, from proper, and first girl Melania Trump stroll with former President Joe Biden and Jill Biden to board a Marine helicopter because the Bidens depart to Joint Base Andrews after the sixtieth Presidential Inauguration, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, on the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (Jack Gruber/Pool Photograph through AP) 
Former President Joe Biden salutes as Jill Biden boards an Air Power Particular Mission airplane at Joint Base Andrews, Md., Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (AP Photograph/Jess Rapfogel) 
President Donald Trump speaks at an indoor Presidential Inauguration parade occasion in Washington, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (AP Photograph/Matt Rourke) 
Barron Trump gestures as he arrives at an indoor Presidential Inauguration parade occasion in Washington, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (AP Photograph/Matt Rourke) 
President Donald Trump, middle, takes half in a signing ceremony within the President’s Room after the sixtieth Presidential Inauguration, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, on the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Surrounding the president are, from left, Senate Majority Chief Sen. John Thune, R-S.D.; Senate Minority Chief Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.; Sen. Deb Fischer, R-Neb.; Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn.; Vice President JD Vance; first girl Melania Trump; Home Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La.; Home Majority Chief Steve Scalise, R-La.; and Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y. (Melina Mara/The Washington Submit through AP, Pool) 
President Donald Trump holds up an govt orders after signing it at an indoor Presidential Inauguration parade occasion in Washington, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (AP Photograph/Matt Rourke 
The U.S. Capitol is seen from the highest of the Washington Monument at daybreak on Inauguration Day, Monday, Jan.20, 2025 in Washington. (Brendan McDermid/Pool picture through AP)
