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Informing about the candidates

Our job is to inform people. The 2024 election page shows Harris and Trump at the top. Therefore, we are going based on the assumption that one of those two will be sworn in. 192.42.55.22 (talk) 03:10, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Correct on the first sentence. Correct on the second. Incorrect on the third. Wikipedia is not a crystal ball. While we can probably say (cited to a reliable source) that it is likely that Harris or Trump will be the next president, we are not in the business of predicting the future. It would not at all be "inform[ing] people" to assert something as fact when it is within the realm of possibility that it will not occur. We don't even make the assumption that the inauguration will happen at all. That's why we say "is expected to take the oath of office on that day", since no one can give a 100% guarantee that a president will be inaugurated on January 20, 2025. For Wikipedia's purposes, there is a big difference between "almost definitely will happen" and "will happen". -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (they|xe) 05:42, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Editing (i.e. Capitalizations)

President 172.56.64.199 (talk) 00:59, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Per hidden comment, should this be titled Upcoming inauguration of Donald Trump?

Kinda confused about this but there is a note in here saying "!--Don't put 'second', as he's being inaugurated only 'once' as the 47th president-->inauguration of Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States. Should this be titled Upcoming inauguration of Donald Trump? CNC33 (. . .talk) 03:31, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Order of events

Vice presidential oath should be written before the presidential one. Creatoreoccasionale (talk) 18:01, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

In addition, they should be referred as vice president and president: "elect" decays at noon.

Final

Although the 22nd amendment sets term limits for presidents, amendments have been repealed before and it is not impossible Donald Trump might seek a third term. 195.224.87.165 (talk) 11:44, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Financing?

According to Swedish (!) media, the fundraising and financing of the presidential inauguration funds are important both in influencing the incoming President and in monetary numbers. It is however very unclear in foregin media how this relates to the actual inauguration. Is it part of the official set up, or is it part of the surrounding events (the other balls etc)? I guess what I'm asking is whether the fundraisign is something that should be discussed in this article, or if there's a better article for that kind of data? OJH (talk) 09:55, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

AI-generated summary

Pretty sure the section Second_inauguration_of_Donald_Trump#Inauguration_boycott is an AI-generated summary of [1] The forced balance ('Despite the boycott'), summarizing writing style ('Various factors') and describing a mildly ironic statement ("For somebody who he said he's going to lock me up, I don't see the excitement in going to see his inauguration") explicitly as 'humorous' are tell-tale. Pieceofmetalwork (talk) 08:14, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Citation needed

Citation needed for this statement: "Several Democratic members of Congress have decided to boycott Trump's inauguration." 82.147.226.185 (talk) 04:34, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]