Futurama Fry

It is in case something happens to the president elect during the inauguration, the vp is already sworn in and can assume temporary control of the country until he is either sworn in or is succeeded by someone else as president.

Oh okay, thanks for knowledge

Who would pay attention to the VP being sworn in after the President makes his speech?

I guess your right. I just thought it was odd, like i forgot the president gives a speech after being sworn in.

We were talking about it at work too. That was the best conclusion we came to. We're all too lazy to look it up!

I also thought it odd, mainly because it would be about 10 minutes between them. I'd expect them to be back to back. I heard the one guy say that Trump would become president anyway at 12 noon. You hear that?

I didn't hear that. We have 4 satellite feeds with audio coming from 1. Over 11 years I'd gotten used to tuning it out.

An interesting question came up about who would take over if something happened to Trump after Pence got sworn in, but before Trump did.

The Acting Secretary of state with take over in that event

Correction speaker of the house.

LOL...that was going to be my first question when I saw your notification pop up. That's what we figured.