Joe Biden becomes 46th President of the United States
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr has been sworn in as the 46th president of the United States, following his election victory over Trump last year.
His Vice, Kamala D. Harris has also been sworn in as the first female, first black and first South-Asian Vice-President of the United states of America.
The former California senator was sworn in by Sonia Sotomayor, the first Latina on the supreme court. Harris has chosen to be sworn in using two Bibles, one from the late Thurgood Marshall the first Black supreme court justice, and one from Regina Shelton, a close family friend who was something like a surrogate mother for Harris and her sister growing up.
Harris’s inauguration marks a major moment in American history. Women have run on presidential tickets as would-be vice-presidents but until Joe Biden’s win, none of those tickets were victorious.
Millions of people around the world watched from home as Chief Justice John Roberts administered the oath of office to Biden on the steps outside the West Front of the US Capitol, just two weeks after they watched in horror as a mob of supporters loyal to his predecessor stormed the building in a violent last stand to overturn the results of the presidential election.
