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President Trump Takes Office by Noah Jacobs ’25
row above Trump’s cabinet picks. “I understand the concerns about the tech billionaires being at the inauguration but Trump won’t be returning for re-election so he won’t be reliant on their money for a second campaign,” said Brochu ‘26 Some other notable politicians in attendance were former presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden. Vice President Kamala Harris, former Vice President Mike Pence, and former Vice President Dan Quayle also attended, as well as, former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, all nine Supreme Court justices, and former Justice Stephen Breyer. There were also several prominent people who refused to attend, such as former First Lady Michelle Obama and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who did not provide a reason for their absence. In 2021, when President Biden was sworn in, Trump did not attend the ceremony, making him the first president in more than 150 years to skip his successor being sworn in, and only the fifth in U.S. history to do so. For Trump’s inauguration on January 20, President Biden and First Lady Jill
The Life of Jimmy Carter by Katherine Twombly ’26
James Earl (Jimmy) Carter, the 39th president of the United States, died on December 29, 2024 at 100 years old. He had been in hospice care for 19 months before he passed away. His death came just over a year after the death of his wife of 77 years, former First Lady Rosalynn Carter. His funeral was held on January 9, and the flags will be at half mast in his honor through January, excepting Donald Trump’s inauguration on the 20th. However, many feel this is disrespectful as flags have always stayed at half mast for recently deceased presidents even during inaugurations. Born on October 1, 1924, in Plains, Georgia, Carter came from a family of peanut farmers and was a very dedicated member of the Baptist Church. He first met his wife when he was three and she was just one day old as his mother Lillian was one of the nurses who helped deliver her. Growing up Rosalynn was friends with
his younger sister Ruth, and they ended up getting married when he was 21 and she was 18. They had four children. He graduated from the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland in 1946 and served as a naval officer for seven years. Upon returning to Georgia he became more involved in state politics and was elected Governor of Georgia in 1970. He was a Democrat who advocated for greater emphasis on racial equality and public service as well as environmental reformation. Carter was elected President in 1976, beating out Republican Gerald Ford who would have been serving his second term. He attempted to strengthen the economy, and while adding millions of jobs, inflation at the end of his presidency was still extremely high. Continuing to pursue environmental sustainability, he created a new energy policy. However, even at the start of his presidency, he did a number of things to earn disapproval from both the public
Donald J. Trump sworn in to office as the 47th president, after serving as the 45th president as well.
Biden were in attendance. Many impactful things happened during his first days in office, including his announcement of the departure of the United States from both the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Paris Climate Agreement. Leaving the WHO means the United States will lose access to its global public health data, which could leave agencies like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention without vital data.
Trump also renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America and changed the name of Mt. Denali in Alaska back to its former name of Mt. McKinley. The mountain had been unofficially named Mount McKinley in 1896 and officially by the federal government in 1917 to honor the 25th president William McKinley, who was assassinated in 1901. In 2015, President Barack Obama renamed the mountain cont. on pg. 2
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter working at Habitat for Humanity. Photo taken from USA Today.
and the government. “The first thing he did, pretty much right off the bat: he pardoned all the draft dodgers from Vietnam. During the campaign, about 55% percent of Americans were in favor of the pardons. He did it right off the bat and people
got really upset with him,” said Mr. TJ Palmer, a history teacher at Brewster Academy. “He re-polled and it was only 20% approval. This hurt him with the public and with Congress.” Additionally, a significant event cont. on pg. 2
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Donald J. Trump’s inauguration on Monday, January 20, 2025, was a significant political event, marking his return to the White House for a second term after his defeat in 2020. He is the second president in all of United States history to be elected for a nonconsecutive second term to the first, the other one being Grover Cleveland. The inauguration was held indoors, which is only the fourth indoor inauguration since they started to be held outside in 1817. Trump’s reason for holding it inside was the freezing temperature and wind chill. The last inauguration to be held indoors was in 1985 when Ronald Reagan was sworn into his second term, also due to freezing temperatures. “As a supporter of the president, I was disappointed that the inauguration was held indoors and so scaled back,” said Will Brochu ‘26 The guest list of the inauguration included many influential people such as Meta’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, Apple’s CEO Tim Cook, Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai, Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos, and Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk. These tech billionaires took the front
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