Trump Inauguration live updates: Donald lays wreath at Tomb of the Unknown Soldier as historic ceremonies begin

President-elect Donald Trump and vice president-elect JD Vance visited the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Sunday afternoon, prior to the Inauguration on Monday.

The pair stood solemnly as president-elect Trump saluted and military taps were played according to video posted by Trump aide Margo Martin.

Earlier in the day, Trump and Vance participated in a wreath laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery with family members.

The president-elect is holding a victory rally later today in Washington, DC at Capitol One arena.

Kid Rock was the first opening musical act at President-elect Donald Trump’s victory rally on Sunday at the Capital One Arena.

The country rocker performed four songs – including his 2022 We The People – which includes the lyrics ‘Let’s Go Brandon,’ code for ‘f*** Joe Biden.’

‘Welcome to the Make America Great Again victory rally. Do you feel good?’ he asked the crowd welcoming them to Washington, D.C. ‘I have one question for you – is MAGA in the house tonight?’

Trump’s voice was piped over the rally crowd.

‘I know you’re having a great time at the Kid Rock concert tonight,’ Trump said, adding, ‘Let’s make America rock again.’

President Joe Biden urged despondent fellow Democrats not to give up hope as he attended Sunday services with South Carolina’s Black churchgoing community to mark the final full day of his presidency.

Biden leaves office on Monday, ending a four-year term that leaves his Democratic Party in the political wilderness when he hands the office back to Republican rival Donald Trump, whom Democrats consider a threat to democracy.

At the Royal Missionary Baptist Church in North Charleston, Biden was remembered fondly by political allies and received a standing ovation from church attendees.

‘We often reflect on resurrection and redemption, but remember, Jesus was buried on Friday, and he rose on Sunday,’ Biden told churchgoers.

‘We don’t talk enough about Saturday, when his disciples felt all hope was lost.’

Trump aide Margo Martin shared a behind-the-scenes look at President Trump’s visit to Arlington National Cemetery.

The ongoing TikTok drama is a key backdrop of the festivities surrounding the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump on Monday.

The platform shut down for users in the United States on Saturday evening, thanks to a ban signed by President Joe Biden.

Trump vowed Sunday morning that he would soon sign an executive order that would permit the platform to go live again as negotiation about the ownership of the app continue.

Trump consultant ‘TikTok Jack’ spoke with DailyMail.com about his optimism surrounding the president-elects negotiations around the deal.

U.S. Vice President-elect JD Vance met with Chinese Vice President Han Zheng on Sunday, one day before the inauguration.

Vance and Han discussed an array of topics including fentanyl, balancing trade and regional stability, the Trump-Vance transition team said.

Trump invited Chinese President Xi Jinping to attend the inauguration after winning the presidential election. Xi has sent Han in his place.

President-elect Donald Trump plans to speak about a new Golden Age of the United States of America on Monday during his Inauguration address.

Incoming press secretary Karoline Leavitt previewed the address on Fox News on Sunday.

‘You’re going to hear President Trump talk about how we are entering a golden age of America and how Americans’ hope can be restored in this great nation,’ she said.

Trump will also talk about securing the border, boosting the United States economy and taking executive actions within 24 hours to ease the problems facing the American people.

‘I think after hearing his speech tomorrow, Americans are going to feel a renewed sense of hope and optimism, and you’re already feeling that in this city throughout this weekend,’ she said.

Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter at Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C.

Thousands lined up in the cold rain on Sunday for their chance to see Donald Trump in person one more time before he becomes president again.

MAGA supporters traveled from all over the country to Washington, D.C. for Trump’s second inauguration and the festivities surrounding his swearing-in.

Trump is holding his final rally in the District’s Chinatown at Capital One Arena, where the professional hockey team the Washington Capitals and professional basketball team the Washington Wizards play.

The arena has a capacity of more than 20,000.

On the eve of Donald J Trump’s inauguration, America’s incoming first lady is making one thing perfectly clear: She won’t settle for a minor credit in this presidential sequel.

Melania, in fact, appears determined to produce and direct her own starring role.

On Thursday, the notoriously private 57-year-old former model was pictured meeting with Queen Rania of Jordan at the Trumps’ Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach.

The longtime friends reunited as a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas was signed – the agreement negotiated, in part, by the president-elect’s new regional envoy.

The photo, posted to the Queen’s Instagram, showed the two having coffee, and locked in deep conversation. One wonders if a documentary film crew, which has been trailing Melania since November, was able to capture the substance of their chat.

For the first time in U.S. history, a president-elect will welcome foreign leaders for one of the most American political traditions – the peaceful transfer of power.

President-elect Donald Trump invited Chinese President Xi Jinping and conservative world leaders such as Argentine President Javier Milei and Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni to the inauguration. Xi is sending his vice president as his representative.

No heads of state have previously made an official visit to the U.S. for the inauguration.

She will make the place feel just like home as she intends to have the residence look just like it did when they left it.

‘A little bit of changes. Not much,’ she told Fox News about her plans.

All first families place their mark on the White House – particularly the upper floors where they live – and Melania was no exception.

In her memoir, she wrote that she focused on ‘redecorating a dozen rooms in the private residence, as the existing style was outdated and not to my taste.’ She even designed a new rug for one of the main family rooms.

Homan, former acting director of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, told the Washington Post that the new administration ‘hasn’t made a decision yet.’

‘We’re looking at this leak and will make a decision based on this leak,’ Homan said. ‘It’s unfortunate because anyone leaking law enforcement operations puts officers at great risk.’

The president-elect will participate in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery.

It will be his first visit back to the cemetery since his visit last summer where one his staffers clashed with an Arlington official.

Trump visited the cemetery to mark three years since the Abbey Gate terror attack as the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan.

During the visit there was a reported physical altercation involving a Trump campaign staffer and a worker in the cemetery when the campaign took photos and video in a restricted area of the cemetery.

The Trump campaign denied a staffer pushed a cemetery worker while the Army defended the staffer.

Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C.

Argentina’s President Javier Milei was among the stacked line-up of Hispanics who joined the pre-celebration of Donald Trump’s impending inauguration.

Milei is a friend of Trump’s and was the first world leader to accept an invitation to his second swearing-in.

But just two days before the inauguration, approximately 1,500 mostly Latino American guests gathered in a ballroom at the Omni Shoreham Hotel as hundreds of thousands of people flood the District for the highly-anticipated inaugural balls this weekend.

The Hispanic gala underscores the importance of the Latino American vote in the 2024 presidential election and how vital the rightward trend of that voting demographic was toward Trump winning his second reelection bid.

Trump earned a higher percentage of Latino votes in 2024 than any other Republican presidential candidate before him.

Nancy Pelosi’s daughter Alexandra described the first lady as ‘Lady McBiden,’ comparing her to Lady MacBeth, the evil wife controlling her husband’s kingdom from behind the scenes in the legendary Shakespeare play.

President-elect Donald Trump urged TikTok users to be patient, using companies to allow the app to stay up after the deadline passed on the ban passed by Congress last year and signed by President Joe Biden.

Trump promised to issue an executive order to free up the platform on Monday after he was inaugurated as president of the United States.

He promised to extend the deadline for prohibitions on the platform as negotiations around the platform continue.

‘Americans deserve to see our exciting Inauguration on Monday, as well as other events and conversations,’ he wrote on Truth Social.

Trump indicated he preferred TikTok to allow the United States to have a 50 percent ownership position as part of a joint venture with the Chinese company ByteDance.

‘ By doing this, we save TikTok, keep it in good hands and allow it to say up,’ he wrote. ‘Without U.S. approval, there is no Tik Tok.’

TikTok officially went dark for users in the United States on on Saturday evening.

The majority of Americans says they would be unhappy if Donald Trump pardons January 6 rioters charged with crimes, according to an exclsuive DailyMail.com/J.L. Partners poll.

There have been over 1,500 people charged with federal crimes stemming from the historic protest which saw hordes of MAGA fans takeover Capitol Hill.

Over 1,000 defendants have been charged or pleaded guilty to a range of crimes from trespassing to seditious conspiracy.

Many Americans witnessed the event live on TV, from which they could see violence against authorities, vandalism against the historic Capitol building and other general anarchy light up their screens.

President-elect Donald Trump, however, is dead-set on addressing pardons for January 6 criminals on ‘Day One,’ which comes on Monday January 20, 2025.

‘Most likely, I’ll do it very quickly,’ he said of the pardons in a recent interview with NBC’s ‘Meet the Press.’

Ahead of Donald Trump’s highly-anticipated inauguration, the soon-to-be Vice President, JD Vance and his wife, Usha, hosted an exclusive, glitzy bash that saw several MAGA legends in attendance.

The star-studded Cabinet Reception and Vice President’s Dinner saw the former Ohio senator and his wife dressed to the nines at the glamourous event set in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, on Saturday night.

The Vice President-elect and his dolled-up wife were even spotted sharing a loving kiss before the he delivered a moving speech to the famous crowd.

Donald Trump has promised that the biggest mass deportation in the history of America will begin on day one of his presidency, and voters say it can’t come soon enough.

When 1,009 registered voters were asked for their one-word verdict, the most popular answer was: Good.

The results come in the latest J.L. Partners poll for DailyMail.com, just ahead of Trump’s inauguration on Monday.

It found that voters overwhelmingly believe tackling illegal immigration and deportations should be Trump’s priority on day one.

Starting mass deportations was seen as most important by 23 percent of respondents.

Next came sealing a peace deal with Ukraine, cited by seven percent, and removing tax on tips (one of Trump’s most eye-catching campaign promises), on six percent.

James Johnson, co-founder of J.L. Partners, said the unity was striking.

‘Right now, America is more united than it ever has been on mass deportations,’ he said.

It is the one question that unites Americans when it comes to President Joe Biden.

Ask Democrats, Republicans or independents for their one-word summary of his legacy and they put aside their differences to answer almost unanimously: Nothing.

Those are the extraordinary results of an exclusive poll conducted for DailyMail.com by J.L. Partners.

Some 1,009 registered voters were asked for their brief description of the legacy of Biden, who leaves the White House on Monday at the age of 82 after four turbulent years.

When the results are arranged in a word cloud, the most common answer sticks out at the center. The next most popular answers are economy, inflation, and infrastructure, in a more encouraging nod to one of his landmark pieces of legislation.

Yet the same word, ‘nothing’ stands out when the responses are split by political persuasion.

For Democrats, the memory is softened by other words such as ‘good,’ ‘stability,’ and ‘better.’

Donald Trump and wife Melania were all smiles as they watched a fireworks display at one of the many celebrations being held in the Washington, D.C., area ahead of the inauguration.

Trump marked his return to power with a celebration at his Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia, about 30 miles outside Washington.

In addition to the First Couple, many of the major players in the Trump orbit were in attendance, including daughter and former senior advisor Ivanka, who was alongside her husband, Jared Kushner.

All of Trump’s adult children and their partners were in attendance, with Don Jr. joined by his controversial new beau Bettina Anderson, while Tiffany was there with husband Michael Boulos, as well as Eric and wife Lara.

But all eyes were on Donald and Melania, who flashed rare smiles at each other as they watched the display.