For the third time in U.S. history, Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Inauguration Day will both be held collectively. Correspondent Bernie Bennett has the story. VERBATIM: The overlap is set for Monday when former president Donald Trump will return to the White House for a second term as President Joe Biden leaves office. Due […]
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Inauguration 2025: Martin Luther King Day
For the third time in U.S. history, Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Inauguration Day will both be held collectively. Correspondent Bernie Bennett has the story.
VERBATIM:
The overlap is set for Monday when former president Donald Trump will return to the White House for a second term as President Joe Biden leaves office. Due to calendar quirks, the two significant US days will not coincide again for another 28 years.
Presidential inaugurations have been scheduled for Jan. 20 since 32nd President Franklin Roosevelt took office in 1937.
MLK Day and Inauguration Day have only coincided twice before in U.S. history: the 1997 second inauguration of Bill Clinton and the 2013 second inauguration of Barack Obama.
Bernie Bennett for Inauguration 2025.