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When will Donald Trump take office?
After his election victory, he will enter a two-month transition period as president-elect before being inaugurated on Jan. 20.
Former President Donald Trump won Tuesday’s election, but he will not immediately return to the White House.
Trump, who lost the presidency in 2020 but wrested back battleground states in the South and Midwest to defeat Vice President Kamala Harris this year, will now enter a two-month transition period as president-elect.
Congress is scheduled to meet on Jan. 6, 2025, to count the Electoral College results, and Trump is set to be sworn into office two weeks later, on Jan. 20. Presidents’ terms always begin that day under a presidential succession timeline set by the Constitution.
Presidential inauguration ceremonies are typically held at the Capitol, and they tend to draw large crowds to Washington for parties and performances.
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President Joe Biden will attend Trump’s inauguration ceremony, according to the White House. Trump, who falsely claimed to have won the 2020 election, did not attend Biden’s 2021 swearing-in.
Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, told reporters last week that Biden believed “in the peaceful transfer of power” and would “certainly” attend Trump’s inauguration if he won.
After beating Hillary Clinton in 2016, Trump was sworn in as president on Jan. 20, 2017. At that inauguration ceremony, he vowed to reverse what he described as “American carnage” and a nation in decline.
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“I will fight for you with every breath in my body, and I will never, ever let you down,” he told hundreds of thousands of people gathered on the west side of the Capitol. “America will start winning again, winning like never before.”
This article originally appeared in The New York Times.
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