WASHINGTON — When Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States, he took the oath of office on both the Lincoln Bible and his own childhood Bible.
The latter will now reside at D.C.’s Museum of the Bible.
Museum officials announced Wednesday that Trump’s Bible — a Revised Standard Version — has just joined the collection of presidential Bibles in the museum’s second-floor “Bible in the World” exhibit, which examines the holy text’s impact on education, human rights, literature and even fashion.
The Trump Bible joins Bibles that belonged to presidents Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower and both George W. Bush and George H.W. Bush.
President Trump received the Bible from his mother as a child, museum officials said, and he took it to Sunday school classes at First Presbyterian Church in Queens, New York. Upon his graduation from primary Sunday school in 1955, they said, the Bible was inscribed by his pastor and Sunday school teachers.
The museum, which opened in November, covers 430,000 square feet and sits three blocks from the Capitol. Learn more about the museum (including admission) at on its website.
