Second presidential transition of Donald Trump

Second presidential transition of Donald Trump

President Joe Biden (right) meeting with President-elect Donald Trump (left) in the Oval Office of the White House on November 13, 2024.
Date of election	November 5, 2024
Transition start	November 6, 2024
Inauguration date	January 20, 2025
President-elect	Donald Trump (Republican)
Vice president-elect	JD Vance (Republican)
Outgoing president	Joe Biden (Democratic)
Outgoing vice president	Kamala Harris (Democratic)
Co-chairs	Linda McMahon Howard Lutnick
Honorary co-chairs[1]	Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Tulsi Gabbard Donald Trump Jr. Eric Trump JD Vance This article or section is part of a series about United States presidential transitions Transitions Lincoln (1860–1861) Wilson (1912–1913) Harding (1920–1921) Hoover (1928–1929) Roosevelt (1932–1933) Eisenhower (1952–1953) Kennedy (1960–1961) Nixon (1968–1969) Carter (1976–1977) Reagan (1980–1981) G. H. W. Bush (1988–1989) B. Clinton (1992–1993) G. W. Bush (2000–2001) Obama (2008–2009) Trump (2016–2017) Biden (2020–2021) Trump (2024–2025) Planned transitions Dukakis (1988) Dole (1996) Gore (2000) Kerry (2004) McCain (2008) Romney (2012) H. Clinton (2016) Harris (2024) Related President-elect of the United States Vice President-elect of the United States End of Term Web Archive Midnight regulations Plum Book v t e This article is part of a series about Donald Trump Business and personal Business career The Trump Organization wealth tax returns Media career The Apprentice bibliography filmography Endorsements Eponyms Family Foundation grants American football Golf Honors Public image in popular culture SNL parodies handshakes Legal affairs Sexual misconduct allegations Nicknames pseudonyms Racial views John McCain comments Conspiracy theories Residences Rhetoric Security incidents Trump dance 45th and 47th President of the United States Incumbent Presidencies first second timeline Transitions first second Inaugurations first second Presidential library Tenure First 100 days first term second term Executive actions executive orders first term second term proclamations pardons first term second term Trips foreign '17 '18 '19 '20–'21 '25 Namaste Trump North Korea summits Singapore Hanoi DMZ Riyadh summit Helsinki summit Shutdowns January 2018 2018–2019 Opinion polls first term second term Legal affairs as president first term second term Protests federal law enforcement deployment St. John's Church photo op Social media Twitter False or misleading statements Trumpism TikTok controversy Attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election Fake electors plot Eastman memos Lawsuits Texas v. Pennsylvania Jeffrey Clark letter Policies Economy First term tax cuts tariffs USMCA farmer bailouts Second term tariffs China Canada and Mexico Liberation Day Environment Paris Agreement withdrawal America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 Foreign policy First term overview Second term overview America First Saudi Arabia arms deal Iran Nuclear deal withdrawal Israel Jerusalem recognition Golan Heights recognition Palestine peace plan Abraham Accords Kosovo–Serbia agreements Syria strikes 2017 2018 Killings al-Baghdadi Soleimani Afghanistan withdrawal Taliban deal Proposed Venezuela invasion American expansionism Immigration first term overview second term overview travel ban border wall family separation policy migrant detentions troop deployments national emergency Infrastructure Social issues First Step Act cannabis Space COVID-19 pandemic Taskforce Communication Government response stimulus bills CARES Act Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 Operation Warp Speed Interference with science agencies Targeting of political opponents and civil society Appointments ( first second ) Cabinets first second Ambassadors first second Federal judges first Supreme Court candidates Gorsuch Kavanaugh Barrett Executives first second U.S. Attorneys first second Presidential campaigns 2000 primaries 2016 election primaries endorsements rallies Las Vegas incident convention debates Make America Great Again Never Trump movement people Access Hollywood tape wiretapping allegations Spygate 2020 election primaries endorsements political non-political opposition rallies convention debates GOP reactions to election fraud claims Raffensperger phone call 2024 election primaries endorsements opposition eligibility Agenda 47 rallies convention debates assassination attempts PA perpetrator photographs FL suspect Impeachments Efforts resolutions First impeachment Ukraine scandal House inquiry Senate trial Second impeachment Capitol attack Senate trial Proposed expungements Legal proceedings 2020 election federal indictment Classified documents federal indictment Special counsel investigation FBI investigation FBI search of Mar-a-Lago Trump v. United States New York felony conviction for falsifying business records Stormy Daniels scandal New York investigations Georgia election indictment Georgia election investigation mug shot v t e

Donald Trump's second presidential transition began when he won the United States presidential election on November 5, 2024, and became the president-elect. Trump was formally elected by the Electoral College on December 17, 2024. The results were certified by a joint session of Congress on January 6, 2025, and the transition concluded when Trump was inaugurated on January 20, 2025.^[2]