After President Donald Trump is sworn in on January 20, he’ll then sit down for a luncheon on the U.S. Capitol hosted by the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies (JCCIC).
However what’s on the menu?
Whereas the precise particulars for the 2025 occasion have but to be launched, if historical past is any proof, diners can anticipate to be served a three-course meal that includes a seafood dish, a meat entrée and a dessert – most likely with ice cream.
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As Trump now calls Florida residence, it could not be a shock to see dishes influenced by the Sunshine State’s legendary delicacies – or maybe a dish with a nod to Vice President J.D. Vance’s Ohio roots.
In 2017, the final time an Inaugural Luncheon was held, Trump and the roughly 200 luncheon visitors had a three-course meal. (The 2021 occasion was not held because of the coronavirus pandemic.)
President Donald Trump and about 200 visitors are anticipated to dine in Statuary Corridor after the swearing in. (Melina Mara/The Washington Submit through Getty Photos)
The primary course was Maine lobster and gulf shrimp topped with saffron sauce and peanut crumble, adopted by a most important of grilled Seven Hills Angus beef with darkish chocolate and juniper jus and potato gratin.
Dessert was chocolate souffle with cherry vanilla ice cream.
The 2017 menu was fairly related in construction to the menu at President Barack Obama’s second inauguration in 2013.
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There, visitors have been served steamed lobster and New England chowder, adopted by grilled bison, “red potato horseradish cake & wild huckleberry reduction,” and a dessert of “Hudson Valley Apple Pie,” bitter cream ice cream, aged cheese and honey.
The final inaugural luncheon to not embrace ice cream as a part of the dessert was President George W. Bush’s second inauguration in 2005.
The luncheon has historically consisted of a three-course meal. ( Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Photos)
At that occasion, the dessert was “steamed lemon pudding and apple wild cherry compote.”
The Inaugural Luncheon was first held in 1897, however its present kind started in 1953, says the web site for the JCCIC.
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“That year, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Mrs. Eisenhower, and fifty other guests of the JCCIC dined on creamed chicken, baked ham, and potato puffs in the now-restored Old Senate Chamber,” stated the web site.
The occasion is now held in Statuary Corridor.
President Dwight Eisenhower (heart proper) was the primary president to have the fashionable type of the standard Inaugural Luncheon. (Getty Photos)
“Often featuring cuisine reflecting the home states of the new President and Vice President or the JCCIC Chairman, as well as the theme of the Inauguration, the luncheon program includes speeches, gift presentations from the JCCIC, and toasts to the new administration,” stated the web site.
The theme of the 2025 Inauguration is “Our Enduring Democracy: A Constitutional Promise.”
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This theme “recognizes the Founders’ commitment to future generations of Americans to preserve the continuity and stability of our democratic system of government,” stated the JCCIC.
Fox Information Digital reached out to the JCCIC for particulars on the 2025 Inaugural Luncheon menu.
