Here's Trump watching the solar eclipse

President Donald Trump took in the solar eclipse from the Truman Balcony of the White House on Monday.

Sporting eclipse glasses and standing alongside Melania Trump and their son Barron, Trump viewed what was only a partial eclipse in Washington, DC. The partial eclipse began at 1:17 p.m., peaked at 2:42 p.m., and was set to end at 4:01 p.m. ET, The Washington Post reported. The moon covered 81% of the sun at the eclipse's peak in Washington.

Much of the nation focused on the Monday event, the first total eclipse to cross the country in nearly a century. The path of totality, where the moon fully eclipsed the sun, stretched from Oregon to South Carolina, but much of the rest of the country was able to view at least a partial eclipse of the sun.

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