POPULIST presidential candidate Donald J. Trump triumphed in the US elections in 2024.
On January 20, 2025, Donald J. Trump returns to office, serving as the 47th President of the United States (POTUS), administering two non-consecutive terms.
Despite Trump being the 47th President – there have actually been SIXTY inaugurations.
The reason behind the misalignment of the inauguration order and president number is simple – some Presidents have served consecutive terms, meaning that they have two back-to-back inaugurations.
However, those who win non-consecutive terms, such as Trump, will feature twice in the list of Presidents.
This means Trump, who served as president from 2017-2021, will always be known as the 45th President as well as the 47th.
However, Barack Obama – who served consecutive terms from 2009 until 2017 but had two inaugurations – will only ever be known as the 44th President.
MAGA-winning candidate Trump secured the 2024 presidential election, with 312 electoral votes, surpassing the required 270 for a win.
He won by a landslide, outdoing his Democrat rival Kamala Harris, who only received 226 electoral votes.
The inauguration takes place on January 20, 2025, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
Which presidents had non-consecutive inaugurations?
The first president to serve non-consecutive terms in the oval office is President Grover Cleveland.
He is therefore known as the 22nd (1885-1889) and 24th (1893-1897) president of the United States.
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When Trump lost the election to Joe Biden in 2020, he became the 11th president to be kicked out of The White House after serving just one term.
Which presidents had consecutive inaugurations?
The United States has had multiple presidents throughout its history who have stepped into office more than once.
Despite serving twice, with two inaugurations, they are only given one ordinal number (a number defining the position).
The first president, George Washington, was sworn into office twice consecutively following his first inauguration on April 30, 1789, at the balcony of Federal Hall in New York.
His second term began in 1793, with an inauguration in Philadelphia, but as he was still president, this was a continuation of his term as the first president.
The second president was John Adams, who served as POTUS from 1797-1801.
Here’s who has served two full terms in The White House, with one ordinal number:
- George Washington (1st President 1789-1797)
- Thomas Jefferson (3rd President 1801-1809)
- James Madison (4th President 1809-1817)
- James Monroe (5th President 1817-1825)
- Andrew Jackson (7th President 1829-1837)
- Ulysses S. Grant (18th President 1869-1877)
- Woodrow Wilson (28th President 1913-1921)
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (34th President 1953-1961)
- Ronald Reagan (40th President 1981-1989)
- Bill Clinton (42nd President 1993-2001)
- George W. Bush (43rd President 2001-2009)
- Barack Obama (44th President 1909-1917)
Harry S. Truman, Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Richard Nixon, Lyndon B. Johnson, William McKinley, and Abraham Lincoln, all had two consecutive terms in office, but didn’t fulfill a two full terms.
If you thought two was more than enough in power, Franklin D. Roosevelt served four consecutive terms as president from March 4, 1933, to April 12, 1945, until he passed away during his last and final term.
That all changed two years after Roosevelt’s death in April 1945.
The revision of the 22nd Amendment
A limit was introduced following the subsequent ascension of Harry S. Truman.
The House of Representatives (the lower chamber of the United States Congress) proposed a resolution to set a limit for how many times someone becomes president.
This was incorporated into the 22nd Amendment of the United States Constitution, stating: “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.”
In a nutshell, presidents can only serve two full terms, or, in total, eight years.
Since the revision, several more presidents served more than one term, but all have done so consecutively, with Donald Trump being the exception.
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Save the date: Trump 2025
Trump will become the 47th president of the United States on January 20, 2025.
His inauguration has been moved inside due to weather conditions.
In front of a huge crowd of world leaders, supporters and protesters alike, the 78-year-old businessman will take the oath of office.
However, the public scene has not always been a bed of roses for our future president.
Trump’s controversial status has left him a target amongst many political oppositions.
On July 13, 2024, Trump was targeted in a failed assassination attempt during one of his speeches at an open-air campaign rally near Butler, Pennsylvania.
The future president was slightly injured and taken to hospital for his injuries, where he was released the next day.