Between seventy-three and seventy-nine days after the presidential election, the president-elect of the United States is inaugurated as president by taking the presidential oath of office. The inaugur
Second inauguration of Donald Trump, January 20, 2025, in the United States Capitol rotunda
Second inauguration of Theodore Roosevelt, 1905
President Reagan being sworn in for his second term "privately" on television, January 20, 1985
President Obama being sworn in for his second term "privately" on television, January 20, 2013
In the United States, a presidential transition is the process during which the president-elect of the United States prepares to take over the administration of the federal government of the United St
President-elect Jimmy Carter with U.S. secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General George S. Brown and the other members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during a visit to The Pentagon during presidential transition from Ford administration to Carter administration, December 17, 1976
President Hoover and President–elect Roosevelt riding together to the United States Capitol prior to the March 4, 1933 presidential inauguration
President Bill Clinton (right) and President-elect George W. Bush (left) meet in the Oval Office of the White House as part of the presidential transition.
President Barack Obama (right) and President-elect Donald Trump (left) meet in the Oval Office of the White House as part of the presidential transition.