Who’s attending Trump’s 2025 inauguration: Full list

As a rule, the US presidential inauguration ceremony takes place on the street in front of the Capitol building. However, due to the frosty weather, Trump ordered the ceremony to be moved indoors (in the rotunda), which was the first such case in the last 40 years.

According to the weather forecast in Washington, DC, on Monday, January 20, the temperature will be low and the frost will be felt much more strongly due to the forecasted wind.

According to Trump, those interested will be able to watch the ceremony on screens in the Capital One Arena.

Who will attend Trump's inauguration?

Since the inauguration will be held indoors, the number of guests planning to attend the event will be significantly reduced. In addition to the traditional lawmakers and other officials, former US presidents are expected to attend: Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama.

The 46th President of the United States, Joe Biden, and Vice President Kamala Harris, who lost the presidential election to Trump, will also attend.

The inauguration will be attended by representatives of the tech industry: Tesla and SpaceX CEOs, as well as Elon Musk, owner of the X social network (he will head the newly created Department of Government Efficiency), Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Meta Platforms, and Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.

Invitations have also been extended to the CEOs of Apple (Tim Cook), OpenAI (Sam Altman), TikTok (Shou Ji Chu), and Google (Sundar Pichai).

In addition, several foreign leaders are expected to attend the inauguration, including Argentine President Javier Milei and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. China's Vice President Han Zheng will attend the ceremony instead of Xi Jinping, whom Trump had invited to attend.

The performers include country star Carrie Underwood, the Village People, opera singer Christopher Macchio, and singer-songwriter Lee Greenwood. The choirs of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the US Naval Academy Band will also contribute to the program.

Who will not be at the inauguration?

The wives of former presidents, including Hillary Clinton and Jill Biden, will also attend the event, except Michelle Obama, who did not explain her absence.

Former US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will also not attend, and her spokesperson also did not give a reason for her planned absence. At the same time, Pelosi and Michelle Obama attended Trump's inauguration in 2017.

CBS News notes that Trump himself skipped President Biden's inauguration in 2021, which took place two weeks after the storming of the Capitol, as he continued to claim victory in the 2020 election.

As a result, Trump became the first president in more than 150 years to skip the ceremony at which his successor was sworn in, and only the fifth in US history to do so.

The media adds that Biden's inauguration, for example, was also attended by fewer people than usual due to COVID-19 restrictions.

Last December, Trump said that he did not invite Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to his inauguration, but would have liked him to attend. In a podcast with American journalist Lex Fridman, Zelenskyy expressed a desire to attend but noted that he could not visit without an invitation.

Donald Trump won the US presidential election on November 5, 2024, convincingly overtaking Kamala Harris, the vice president of Joe Biden's administration.

Today, at noon Washington time, Trump will be sworn in as the 47th President of the United States. He will then deliver a speech outlining his key goals and priorities for the upcoming term.

The newly elected US president will then sign his first memorandums and decrees. It is expected that he will issue up to a hundred decrees on the first day.

Read more about the event and what Ukraine should expect from the new Republican presidency in RBC-Ukraine's article.