The president-elect sat in the row directly ahead of Mike Pence, who was once the target of a violent mob bent on keeping Trump in power.

The U.S. has a long tradition of defeated presidential candidates sharing the inauguration stage with the people who defeated them, projecting to the world the orderly transfer of power. It’s a practice that Vice President Kamala Harris will resume on Jan. 20 after an eight-year hiatus.

Executive actions by presidents have to be grounded in defensible legal authority and process. Just because Donald Trump says he can do something doesn’t mean he can.

It is unusual for five current and former presidents to gather at the same event, but when it happens, it is often at a funeral.

A state funeral is a gathering of the Washington clans, a convocation of the very establishment that Trump has pledged to destroy in his second term. Carter was not a clubbable man and his self-conscious piety was sometimes an irritant for his successors. He was the uneasiest member of the ex-president’s club apart from Trump.

Pictures shared on social media by the vice president and by the Carter Center prominently showed other past presidents in attendance.

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The guest list includes some of America’s most influential tech billionaires and politicians as well as some foreign leaders and celebrities who have embraced Trump.

There’s not only one Donald Trump or Bill Clinton in the U.S. What's it like to share a presidential name? Ask Abraham Lincoln or Grover Cleveland.

Unlike any other president, Donald Trump has tested the words and ideas in the literal text of the US Constitution, from the Preamble through the 27th Amendment. There are multiple passages he has said or suggested he will ignore or reinterpret.

Since the ABC is in the process of presenting its talent for 2025, it’s an appropriate time to reassess its “expert” commentators on the US as America enters the second presidency of Donald J. Trump.