It is a ceremony of passage in the US: a newly elected president takes the oath of workplace earlier than his folks.

On Monday, Trump was sworn in for a second time, assuming his function because the forty seventh president of the US amid pomp and circumstance.

However no inauguration day is with out its surprises, and no programme of occasions – regardless of how meticulously deliberate – can account for the bizarre, the wacky and the fascinating moments. This is what you may need missed – and what folks would possibly nonetheless be speaking about for days to return.

After Trump’s inaugural handle concluded, nation singer Carrie Underwood arrived on stage to sing the patriotic music America the Stunning.

Underwood, who launched to fame after successful the TV expertise present American Idol in 2005, had confronted criticism for her resolution to carry out on the ceremony, notably amongst opponents of Trump.

“I like our nation and am honoured to have been requested to sing on the Inauguration and to be a small a part of this historic occasion,” she stated in a media assertion final week. “I’m humbled to reply the decision at a time once we should all come collectively within the spirit of unity and trying to the long run.”

Underwood’s efficiency did not begin out easily – a technical malfunction lower off backing music simply as she was to carry out.

“You recognize the phrases, assist me out right here, ” she stated after a number of moments ready for the music to return.

The gang within the rotunda joined her in signing an a cappella model of America the Stunning that ended with applause.

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Melania Trump arrived in a darkish blue and white ensemble, full with an attention-grabbing hat. As our trend author famous, hats have lengthy been a staple of First Woman inauguration dressing and Monday’s hat was a contemporary addition to the style.

The large brim hid the famously inscrutable first woman’s eyes, placing literal distance between her and different attendees, together with her husband.

In one of many extra awkward moments of the day, Donald Trump greeted his closest allies as he walked on stage to his swearing-in on the Capitol. When he reached his spouse, he leaned in for a kiss, solely to search out her hat brim made it arduous to get shut sufficient to Melania’s face.

The couple settled on an air kiss as an alternative.

Is it potential to suit the whole “manosphere” on a single bus? In all probability not, but when there was a time to attempt, it was the 2025 Trump inauguration.

YouTuber-turned-wrestler Logan Paul and his brother Jake Paul, knowledgeable boxer and influencer, spent the morning documenting their journey to Washington DC on Instagram. The brothers shared video from inside a chartered bus the place Trump’s boys-club was celebrating. Amongst them had been Theo Von, the mulleted comic and podcast host who interviewed Trump this autumn, web prankster Kyle Forgeard and Conor McGregor, the controversial Irish mixed-martial arts fighter.

They had been among the VIPs invited to observe the ceremony in a viewing space within the Capitol complicated’s Emancipation Corridor.

A gaggle of hyper-masculine, ultra-online younger males dubbed the “manosphere” has emerged as a rising faction amongst Trump’s various mixture of supporters.

Trump in the end received the election 56% to 42% amongst male voters ages 18-29 – a voting bloc he misplaced by 15 proportion factors in 2020. This demographic helped ship him the presidency – so it isn’t a lot of a shock to see its distinguished figures sharing within the celebration.

Inauguration model is at all times a buzzy subject, from coats to hats to figures with model of all their very own – like Kamala Harris’ step-daughter Ella Emhoff; Melania Trump; and former Trump adviser Roger Stone, who has a mode weblog and a love of elaborate menswear.

However typically it is the shortage of fashion that attracts essentially the most consideration – the anti-fashion.

In 2020, unbiased Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders stole the present together with his utilitarian coat and patterned mittens – a present from a constituent – that went viral for his or her distinction to a day of pomp and circumstance.

However mittens? That is so 2020.

This 12 months, Senator John Fetterman donned maybe essentially the most distinctive outfit of the day – his signature outsized hoodie, lengthy, unfastened athletic shorts and sneakers.

It is a look the Pennsylvania Democrat is known for – he wears it nearly each day and even prompted a change in Senate costume code.

A lot of the chatter centered on why Fetterman eschewed a coat and opted for shorts on a day so frigid, the inauguration occasions had been moved indoors. Forecasters have predicted lows of -11C (12F).

In 2017, Fetterman defined to CNN that he dressed out of consolation and located it difficult to search out extra formal apparel for his 6ft 8in body.

“No one has come to me straight and stated the world will burn should you put on a hoodie,” he stated, including that his work spoke for itself.

Inauguration Day for Donald Trump kicked off by going to church.

However the conventional service is not nearly worship – it is also about who the incoming president chooses to fill the pews with him at a extra intimate occasion.

The morning service was a who’s who of the faces that can assist form Trump’s second administration – like his youngsters and cupboard picks together with Lawyer Basic nominee Pam Bondi and Division of Protection nominee Pete Hegseth.

Beside them, the giants of America’s tech trade crammed out a billionaire’s pew: Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg; Amazon head Jeff Bezos; Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google father or mother firm Alphabet; and Tim Prepare dinner, the Apple CEO that Trump as soon as known as “Tim Apple”.

They later accompanied Trump to the Capitol’s rotunda, once more as a part of a choose group given near-front row entry to the incoming president.

Tesla/X/SpaceX mogul Elon Musk, a detailed Trump confidant who will quickly run his personal cost-cutting advisory group for his administration, joined them.

Sam Altman, the founding father of OpenAl, was additionally seen on the Capitol.

Notably, the inauguration overlaps with this 12 months’s World Financial Discussion board in Switzerland – sometimes a gathering place for tech executives to mingle and assert their affect. Appears the place to be this 12 months wasn’t Davos – it was Washington DC.

Trump hit on a lot of his high priorities in his inaugural handle, usually to applause from the group at each the Capitol and the stay watch occasion at Capital One Area.

Former presidential rival Hillary Clinton was seen in crowd behind President Trump, listening as he shared his plans for America to “reclaim its rightful place as the best, strongest, most revered nation on Earth, inspiring the awe and admiration of the whole world”.

“A short while from now, we’re going to be altering the identify of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America,” he stated to applause.

Seated between her husband former President Invoice Clinton and former President George W Bush, Clinton could possibly be seen laughing at that final line. Response on-line was cut up, with Trump critics delighting within the second and Trump supporters decrying it as impolite.

It’s a controversial proposal that has change into a key piece of Trump’s imaginative and prescient for US international coverage in his second time period. Amongst different concepts, Trump has sought to rename the internationally recognised physique of water as a method of punishing Mexico over immigration, financial and drug trade-related grievances.

On Friday, forecasts of bitter chilly and punishing winds prompted Trump to name for a venue change, turning the historically outside occasion right into a extra personal indoor affair. Public ticketholders had been as an alternative directed to assemble at Washington DC’s Capital One Area, an indoor sports activities and live performance venue.

However some weren’t anticipating the bag-size guidelines that include the venue shift. As the world crammed up, photos flowed out of piles of discarded luggage, water bottles and different objects deemed too giant or too dangerous to be allowed inside.

Preliminary steerage offered by Capitol Police prohibited luggage bigger than 12in x 12in x 5in from the Capitol grounds for the inauguration, however the enviornment seems to have stricter necessities.

Purses and backpacks of all sizes had been heaped on the road exterior, apparently deserted. Some seemed to be from designer manufacturers, together with Coach and Louis Vuitton.

Later, folks could possibly be seen strolling off with armfuls of the discarded luggage.

With reporting from Ione Wells at Capitol One Area.