President-elect Donald Trump is returning to the White House this month.
After Trump won the 2024 election against Democrat Vice President Kamala Harris in November, his inauguration is set to occur in a matter of weeks. Trump becomes the second president in the U.S. to win two non-consecutive terms, following Grover Cleveland.
Trump will also be the third president sworn into office on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
The only step between Trump’s inauguration is for Harris to count the votes on Jan. 6, alongside archivist of the United States Collen Shogan.
Here’s everything you need to know about how to watch the inauguration, whether live in D.C. or from your screens.
What happens on Jan. 6?
The final step of an election involves members of Congress counting the electoral votes that were voted on and turned in to Congress in December. These votes represent all the electorate votes of each state.
As president of the Senate and archivist of the United States, Kamala Harris and Collen Shogan, respectively, will oversee the vote count. After the effort to overturn the 2020 election, the Electoral Count Reform Act also introduced a series of reforms to this joint session.
These include a clarification that the vice president’s role as president of the Senate is “ministerial” in overseeing the count, and the threshold for objections to a state’s electoral slates was raised to one-fifth of each chamber.
When is Trump sworn in? When is Inauguration Day?
Inauguration Day will occur on Monday, Jan. 20. The Inauguration traditionally happens on Jan. 20 following the November election. Unless Jan. 20 falls on a Sunday, which will reschedule the event for Jan. 21.
Per tradition, Vice President-elect JD Vance will be sworn in first, and Trump will recite the Presidential Oath at around 11 a.m. CT.
Similarly, because Martin Luther King Jr. Day is always celebrated on the third Monday of January, this marks the third time a president has taken the Oath of Office on the holiday and the first exchange of power.
Can I buy tickets to the inauguration?
The Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies offers a limited number of inauguration tickets to the public through members of Congress. Tickets are free and allow you to watch the proceedings from the U.S. Capitol.
Tickets will be available by asking your Congressional members in the weeks leading up to the inauguration.
This article originally appeared on Oklahoman: When does Trump take office in 2025? How to watch inauguration events
