Donald Trump Inauguration Live: US President-elect starts the day with church and a tweet

• 2:38am

Fashion police report

• 2:31am

Anti-Trump rallies held worldwide

Demonstrators near a security checkpoint in Washington. Photo: AP

Pictures and reports are coming in of anti-Trump protests in cities around the world.

Full report.

• 2:25am

Hillary Clinton arrives

US Democratic Presidential contender Hillary Clinton has arrived for the Inauguration. She'll be sitting just a few metres from where she'd be taking the oath if she'd won the election.   

• 2:21am

Schedule of events

If you're just joining us, here's this morning's schedule of events (all times AEDT):

2:30am: Trump heads to White House to meet outgoing president Barack Obama. President and President-elect will leave for the Capitol together to attend the swearing-in. (This is where we're at now).

3.45am: Vice President Mike Pence takes his oath of office.

4am: Trump takes his oath of office, administered by US Chief Justice John Roberts. 

4.15am: Trump gives his inaugural address.

4.45am: Barack Obama and family leave Washington for California, where they will holiday. Inaugural luncheon for Trump supporters (Maine lobster, Gulf shrimp, Seven Hills Angus beef and lots of speeches and toasts, in case you were wondering).

6.30am: Inaugural parade, from the Capitol to the White House, begins. (The tradition began with Thomas Jefferson in 1801.)

11am: Trump and his wife attend the Liberty Ball, the first of their three inaugural balls in Washington DC. Here they will take their first dance as president and first lady. They later go to the Freedom Ball, held on a separate floor of the Walter E. Washington Convention Centre. The Salute to Our Armed Services Ball will be held at the National Building Museum.

Longer version here.

• 2:14am

The Trumps and the Obamas on the steps of the White House.

Photo: AP

• 2:02am

Meet the Australians marching against Trump

Josephine Tovey writes from Washington:

"Less than 24 hours after Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, a couple of women in America, fearful and angry about what that would portend, put out the call on social media for a women's protest, and soon began planning what will soon be the first major demonstration of his presidency."

Full story here.

• 1:58am;
• Josephine Tovey

For sale: Trump hats, flags, badges and teddy bears

Inauguration Day is not just about the transfer of power in a global superpower – it's also about selling a lot of tat.

Vendors are hawking their wares on every street corner of Washington: Trump hats, flags, badges and teddy bears.

One vendor, who said this was his third inauguration, said the woolly beanies and plastic ponchos were his biggest sellers. 

Asked how this compared to Obama's first inauguration, he gave me a look that said "are you serious?"

"There's maybe a quarter the number of the people today compared to Obama," he said.

• 1:54am

'An event that 12 months ago would have been laughable'

Our chief foreign correspondent, Paul McGeough, writes from Washington:

"The capital and the country awake to years of a bleak and possibly dangerous political twilight. It all starts with an event that 12 months ago, would have been laughable, absurd and just downright silly – Donald Trump is sworn in as the 45th president of the US."

Full report here.

• 1:53am;
• Josephine Tovey

Protesters in central Washington

Protests began early in DC this morning with small clusters of marchers taking to the streets at dawn. One coalition that a marcher said was made up of Muslim, immigrant and Jewish demonstrators marched chanting "Our existence is resistance".

• 1:46am

The Trumps have arrived at the White House to meet Barack and Michelle Obama for coffee. Oh, to be a fly on the wall ...  

• 1:40am

Farewell message from Barack and Michelle Obama

Barack Obama, on his way to meet President-elect Trump prior to the Inauguration, has released his last statement as US president.

He's used the video statement, alongside Michelle Obama, to announce the Obama Foundation, "a living, working startup for citizenship".

The project will be based on the South Side of Chicago and will have projects all over the city, the country, and the world, they said.

• 1:29am;
• Lynette Eyb

Donald Trump arrives for church

US President-elect Donald Trump is out and about. He stepped out of the government guest house, next to the White House, with his wife, Melania, just after 8.30am Washington time. From there he took a motorcade to St John's Episcopal Church for the traditional pre-Inauguration church service.

Vice President-elect Mike Pence is also attending the service.

Rev Luis Leon greets President-elect Donald Trump and his wife Melania as they arrive for a church service at St John's Episcopal Church across from the White House. Photo: AP

• 1:21am

A new day, a new tweet

US President-elect Donald Trump started the day as he often does: with a tweet.

• 1:19am

Hello and welcome to Inauguration Day

Well! It's here!

Donald Trump will today be sworn in as the 45th President of the United States.

We have reporters in Washington DC, London and around Australia bringing you all the events as they happen.