Loud Whispers

The President-Elect of the United States of America, Mr Donald Trump, will be inaugurated later today.

Mr Trump will also be sworn into office using a Bible that once belonged to Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican Commander-in-Chief and the man who famously abolished slavery in America, Scotsman News reported.

He will become the 45th President of the United States by taking an oath upon a Bible given to him by his Scottish mother, he was given the book in 1955 by his mother Mary Anne Trump (née MacLeod) after he completed Sunday school.Mary Anne MacLeod. Donald Trump’s mother. Picture: Contributed/TSPL

Mary Trump, who died in 2012, was born and raised on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides before emigrating to America in 1930 at 18-years-old.

The book previously appeared in a campaign video during Mr Trump’s election campaign, where he thanked Evangelical Christians for supporting his bid for the White House.

In Trump’s Speech; “My mother gave me this Bible. This very Bible many years ago.

“It is very special to me.”

The official inauguration ceremony will take place in Washington D.C. around 5pm GMT.

Several world leaders and special guests have been invited for the event. Among the distinguished guests are the Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, former President Bill Clinton,  former President George W. Bush, former First Lady Laura Bush,  former President Jimmy Carter,  Ohio Gov. John Kasich, New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez,  former UKIP leader Nigel Farage, Russian ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak, Anson Chan, the former chief secretary in Hong Kong, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass, Sen. Ed Markey; D-Mass, Rep. Seth Moulton; D-Mass, Rep. Jim McGovern; D-Mass,  Rep. Stephen F. Lynch; D-Mass, the Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, Rabbi Marvin Hier, the head of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York, the Rev. Franklin Graham, president of Samaritan’s Purse,  televangelist Paula White, Bishop Wayne T. Jackson, leader of Great Faith Ministries International in Detroit, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,  former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner, who told NBC Chicago he’s “focused on Illinois” and trying to “minimize the distractions”, Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., who said in a statement he wanted “to be able to look my two beautiful Latina daughters and my beautiful half-Puerto Rican, half-Mexican, 100 percent American grandson in the eye with a clear conscience”, Rep. Katherine Clark, D-Mass., who told the Boston Globe “there is nothing about this presidency and his rejection about his core American values that I want to normalize”, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, and the immediate past president of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Johnathan among others.

Meanwhile, the Indigenous People of Biafra Movement, IPOB, had today, staged a street-walk in jubilation on the event of the swearing-in of Mr Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States of America in Port Harcourt, Nigeria.