While the precise main points of the 2025 event have yet to be released, if history is any indication, diners can expect to be served a three-course meal plus a seafood dish, a meat platter, and a dessert, with ice cream.
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As Trump now calls Florida home, it would not be a surprise to see dishes influenced by the Sunshine State’s legendary cuisine – or perhaps a dish with a nod to Vice President J.D. Vance’s Ohio roots.
In 2017, the last time an inaugural luncheon was held, Trump and the roughly two hundred luncheon attendees enjoyed a three-course meal. (The 2021 event did not take place due to the coronavirus pandemic)
President Donald Trump and about 200 visitors are expected to dine at Statuary Hall after the swearing-in. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post Getty Images)
The first course was Maine lobster and gulf shrimp topped with saffron sauce and peanut crumble, followed by a main of grilled Seven Hills Angus beef with dark chocolate and juniper jus and potato gratin.
For dessert, a chocolate soufflé with cherry and 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 inauguration lunch included no ice cream for dessert, President George W. Bush’s second inauguration in 2005.
The luncheon has traditionally consisted of a three-course meal. ( Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images)
At this event, dessert is “a steamed lemon pudding and wild cherry apple compote. ”
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, baked ham, and potato puffs in the now ‘restored’ former Senate Chamber,” he says.
He now takes up position in the Hall of Statues.
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 house states of the new JCCIC president and vice president or president, as well as the inauguration theme, the luncheon program includes speeches, presentations of JCCIC gifts, and toasts to the new administration,” said. .
The theme of the 2025 inauguration is “Our Sustainable 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 reached out to the JCCIC for details on the 2025 Inaugural Luncheon menu.
Christine Rousselle is a lifestyle journalist at Fox News Digital.
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