Well you're conveniently forgetting that Obama had the fucking audacity to eat dijon mustard wear a tan suit be black.

Honestly, the current situation is beyond double standards. The Republicans have free reign to more or less break any of their own rules and suffer almost no consequences. Meanwhile, literally anything a Democrat does is spun into multiple mutually exclusive conspiracy theories that their base and the media somehow manage to spout simultaneously.

Big Antichrist vibes. Would it have burned his hand? I guess will never know.

Sadly I think it would have been more than half. Personally I'd like less of the Bible in any of our swear ins, but Orange Hitler not doing it just keeps the process rolling forward.

white christian supremacy

Whoever succeeds trump, (assuming that happens, and it's not Vance), should do the same thing, so we can maybe get rid of that dumbass tradition.

If one of Obama's friends would've done a nazi salute behind the presidential seal, the Republicans would've lynched Obama on the lawn of the white house

He actually did take the oath without putting his hand on a bible and they did try to make a big deal about it.

John Roberts messed up the oath during the inauguration and they had to redo it later.

During the do-over there was no bible: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_inauguration_of_Barack_Obama

He was probably afraid of getting struck by divine lightning or something like that if he touched a Bible while uttering the words with no intentions to follow them.

Not to be annoying but it is in fact your business

As if they actually cared about such matters. It would have only been just another excuse to stoke moral panic and outrage as red meat for their rabid base.

It’s exactly the sort of cynicism that, by design and intent, leads to apathy and fascism

Did the orange turd or someone else do that?

It is absolutely not a requirement to swear an oath on a bible, or even to have a bible nearby.

It just happens to be a longstanding custom in the USA. Many politicians take the oath on a bible just for the optics. DT, of all people, is all about optics. Dude probably wasn’t paying any attention, and surely winging his swearing given the last minute changes.

In any case, shouldn't everyone be applauding a president for refusing to touch a bible, tacitly denouncing religious contexts near government?

This is just the childish act of crossing your fingers when you make a promise. He didn't put his hand on the Bible because he isn't planning on presiding faithfully, and he has absolutely no intention whatsoever to preserve, protect or defend the Constitution of the United States unless it benefits him personally at the time.

It's the ceremony organizers' fault for neglecting to bring a bible small enough to put his hand on.