--- title: Trump Inauguration: Can You Put U.S. Presidents in Order? description: As Donald Trump takes office, test your knowledge of the 44 presidents who came before him canonical: https://time.com/4636990/donald-trump-inauguration-president-quiz/ author: David Johnson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-01-20T14:00:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T02:46:17.625Z article:section: History og:title: Quiz: Can You Put the U.S. Presidents in Order? og:description: As Donald Trump takes office, test your knowledge of the 44 presidents who came before him og:url: https://time.com/4636990/donald-trump-inauguration-president-quiz/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Quiz: Can You Put the U.S. Presidents in Order? twitter:description: As Donald Trump takes office, test your knowledge of the 44 presidents who came before him twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Donald Trump Is the 45th President. Can You Put All the U.S. Presidents in Order? by [David Johnson](https://time.com/author/dave-johnson/) ## David Johnson Jan 20, 2017 2:00 PM UTC by [David Johnson](https://time.com/author/dave-johnson/) ## David Johnson Jan 20, 2017 2:00 PM UTC [Donald Trump ](http://time.com/time-person-of-the-year-2016-donald-trump/)is the 45th president of the United States. He follows in the footsteps of 44 others, all the way back to George Washington, who took the first oath of office in 1789. When Trump swore on a Bible at his inauguration last month to protect and defend the Constitution, several of those former presidents were in attendance: Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, along with outgoing President Obama. See how well you know the former commanders-in-chief by putting them in the correct order in the interactive below. Tap and drag the portraits to put each president under the dates he was in office: ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4636990/donald-trump-inauguration-president-quiz/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4636990/donald-trump-inauguration-president-quiz/"},"headline":"Donald Trump Is the 45th President. Can You Put All the U.S. Presidents in Order?","datePublished":"2017-01-20T14:00:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T02:46:17.625Z","description":"As Donald Trump takes office, test your knowledge of the 44 presidents who came before him","url":"https://time.com/4636990/donald-trump-inauguration-president-quiz/","keywords":["Presidents","politics","White House","inauguration","interactive studio"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"David Johnson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/dave-johnson/"}],"articleSection":"History","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/history/","name":"History"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/presidents/","name":"Presidents"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4636990/donald-trump-inauguration-president-quiz/","name":"Donald Trump Is the 45th President. Can You Put All the U.S. Presidents in Order?"}}]}] ```