Another return to the Oval Office in Trump 2.0 is a sculpture called “The Bronco Buster” by artist Frederic Remington, which sits under the portrait of Jackson.

President Trump decorated the Oval Office with a collage of family photos and other personal effects that were on full display during his first day back in the White House.

When President Donald Trump took the oath of office, he didn't have his hand on the Bible. Does this matter and why do politicians do it at all?

“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.

Despite social media attention, the Constitution protects freedom of religion. So putting a hand on a Bible, or even using one at all, isn't required.

Donald Trump enters his second presidency, as he did his first, pledging to wield executive power in novel and aggressive ways. This is neither new nor necessarily bad. “Presidents who go down in the history books as ‘great’ are those who reach for power, who assert their authority to the limit,” the presidential scholar Richard Pious noted.

Given the chaos of Trump’s first term, and his radical plans for the second, Vanity Fair writers and editors take stock on day one of what’s sure to be a tumultuous time in America.

As Trump's new term in office begins ... D.C., as it did not became the country's capital until 1800 just before Thomas Jefferson assumed the office, according to the Council on Foreign Relations. The country's first and second presidents, George ...

"The only president to ever avoid an inauguration was the guy that's about to be inaugurated," Biden said in December 2024.

Donald Trump, who has returned as the 47th president of the United States, made major changes to the Oval Office on his first day back. The office now has a portrait of Andrew Jackson, a decision that had previously sparked controversy as Jackson was a slave owner and was responsible for the forced removal of Native Americans from their lands.

After Joe Biden took office in 2021, reports emerged that he had removed the Diet Coke button from the presidential desk. However, with Trump back in the Oval Office, the button has returned to its rightful place, a symbol of his long-standing devotion to the soda.