While the precise main points of the 2025 event have yet to be revealed, if history is any indication, diners can expect to be served a three-course meal that includes a seafood platter, a meat platter, and a dessert, most likely with ice cream.
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In 2017, the last time an Inaugural Luncheon was held, Trump and the approximately 200 luncheon guests had a three-course meal. (The 2021 event was not held due to the coronavirus pandemic.)
President Donald Trump and about two hundred visitors are expected to dine at Statuary Hall after the inauguration. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post Getty Images)
The first course consisted of Maine lobster and Gulf shrimp topped with saffron sauce and peanut crumble, followed by a main course of roasted Seven Hills Angus beef with dark chocolate, juniper jus and scalloped potatoes.
Dessert was chocolate souffle with cherry vanilla ice cream.
The 2017 menu had a similar design to President Barack Obama’s second inauguration in 2013.
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There, guests were served steamed lobster and New England chowder, followed by grilled bison, “red potato horseradish cake & wild huckleberry reduction,” and a dessert of “Hudson Valley Apple Pie,” sour cream ice cream, aged cheese and honey.
The last opening lunch did not include ice cream for dessert. The second inauguration of President George W. Bush in 2005.
Historically lunch is made up of a three-course meal. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images)
The dessert of this occasion is “steamed lemon pudding and applesauce and wild cherries”.
The inaugural luncheon was first held in 1897, but its current form began in 1953, the JCCIC’s online page states.
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“That year, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Mrs. Eisenhower, and fifty other JCCIC visitors dined on creamed chicken, roast ham, and potato cabbage in the now-restored former Senate chamber,” he says.
The event is now held in Statuary Hall.
President Dwight Eisenhower (center right), the first president to adopt the modern form of the classic inaugural luncheon. (Getty Images)
“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,” said the website.
The 2025 inauguration theme 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 form of government,” the JCCIC said.
Fox News Digital has reached out to the JCCIC to find out the main menu items for the 2025 inaugural luncheon.
Christine Rousselle is a lifestyle journalist at Fox News Digital.
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