President-elect Donald Trump will be sworn into office on Monday, but the inauguration will not be the only event happening that day.
Jan. 20 will mark several different occasions across the country, including a federal holiday and a major sporting event. Here are all the major events happening on Monday.
Inauguration Day
Trump will be sworn in as the 47th president and J.D. Vance will be sworn in as the 50th vice president in a ceremony in the Capitol Rotunda at noon. The ceremony was originally scheduled to be held on the West Front of the Capitol, but organizers announced Friday the swearing-in would be moved indoors due to forecast brutally freezing temperatures and wind chill.
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Other festivities occurring for the inauguration include the parade, which was also relocated indoors to the Capital One Arena, along with various inaugural balls, official and unofficial, throughout Washington.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
The federal holiday honoring late civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. will also fall on Jan. 20, as it has been observed on the third Monday of January since being signed into law in 1986.
2025 will mark the third time the holiday and the presidential inauguration ceremony have overlapped. In 1997 and 2013, Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, respectively, were sworn in for their second terms. Obama’s public 2013 inauguration ceremony was held on Jan. 21 due to Jan. 20 falling on a Sunday.
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Some Martin Luther King Jr. Day rallies in Washington have been moved to the weekend due to closures in the city for the Monday inauguration, but some rallies will still be held on the day.
Inauguration Day is typically only a holiday for federal workers in Washington and some surrounding parts of Virginia and Maryland, but with Martin Luther King Jr. Day, it will be a federal holiday for most companies and the federal government.
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College football national championship
Monday evening will bring the conclusion of the first 12-team College Football Playoff, when the Ohio State Buckeyes and Notre Dame Fighting Irish face off in Atlanta.
Jan. 20 is the latest a college football championship has ever been held after the previous iteration of the College Football Playoff only had a four-team tournament.
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Vance, an alumnus of Ohio State University, has joked that he wants to skip his swearing-in ceremony to attend the Buckeyes’ first national championship game since 2021.
“Hopefully everyone is cool with me skipping the inauguration so I can go to the national title game,” Vance joked in a post on X.