A Scottish family heirloom played a key role in Donald Trump's return to office yesterday.
It has emerged that the billionaire took the oath of office on a Bible given to him by his Scottish mother as he was sworn in as US president for the second time.
Mary Anne MacLeod gave him the book in 1955 after he moved on from Sunday school aged nine, according to The Times.
It is embossed with his name and signed by church officials. Trump also used it in his 2017 inauguration.
MacLeod grew up in Tong, Isle of Lewis, and was a native Gaelic speaker. At the age of 18 she went to America to look for domestic work — one of the thousands of islanders who left Lewis after the First World War.
Speaking previously, Trump said: “My mother gave me this Bible, this very Bible, many years ago. It is very special to me.”