In 2020, religious leaders from several Christian denominations condemned his display of the Bible in a “photo-op” in front of an Episcopal church near the White House as racial justice ...

The Oath of Office ceremony, which takes place on Inauguration Day in front of crowds gathered outside ... the Oath of Office with one hand on a Bible. But the Constitution doesn’t specify ...

Why do presidents place a hand on the Bible? The answer is simple: tradition. That’s what the first President of the United States, George Washington, did in 1789, according to the White House ...