No one has worn a hat so stylishly since Ingrid Bergman in the classic movie “Casablanca.”

This time, though, it was Melania Trump, 54, wife of President Donald Trump, whose hat turned heads at her husband’s inauguration Monday.

Dressed in an elegant navy blue coat and skirt, it was her matching hat with its white band that caught people’s attention and camera close ups.

She was the only woman indoors wearing a hat, save for her stepdaughter Ivanka, who wore a beret-like hat to match her forest green ensemble. But it was the First Lady’s which commanded attention.

Her boater with the wide brim gave an air of mystery, covering her eyes and part of her face, like it did with Bergman.

The hat even blunted Trump when he attempted to kiss her during the inaugural ceremony.

Unlike Bergman, whose eyes and face evoked romance, intrigue and vulnerability and captivated Humphrey Bogart, Melania Trump’s look was confident, bold and inscrutable.

How soon before copycat versions of the hat fly off the shelves?

The First Lady’s hat was like a preview of Trump’s first hours as president. The hat and the way she wore it showed a seriousness of purpose and said “we’re back and we mean business.”

With the hapless Joe Biden looking on, Trump in his inaugural address proceeded to tear the Biden administration apart, beginning with an attack on the “vicious, violent and unfair weaponization of the Justice Department” to Biden’s open borders policy. He called the open border “a betrayal.”

Trump, who was twice indicted by Biden’s Justice Department, vowed that, “Never again will the immense power of the state be weaponized to persecute political opponents — something I know something about. We will not allow that to happen.”

But 20 minutes earlier, Biden, in a shabby end to a shabby administration, had issued preemptive pardons to members of his own family.

None of them — excepting his deadbeat son Hunter Biden —have been charged with any crime. Hunter got his pardon from his father earlier.

The family members are Biden’s brothers James and Francis Biden, James’ wife Sara, his sister Valerie Biden Owens and her husband John T. Owens.

“I believe in the rule of law,” Biden said. As though talking about what his Justice Department did to Trump, Biden added “But baseless and politically motivated investigations wreak havoc on the lives, safety and financial security of targeted individuals and their families,” even when they “have done nothing wrong and will ultimately be exonerated.”

A House investigation charged that the family received money from foreign countries under shadowy circumstances and accounts.

Biden earlier had also issued a full and unconditional pardon to all the Capitol Police officers who testified before the House Select Committee (members were also pardoned) that investigated the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

It was unclear whether the pardon included Michael Byrd, the Capitol Police officer who shot and killed unarmed protestor Ashli Babbitt, a veteran.

In any event, Trump, following his speech, pardoned almost all the 1,500 people charged in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, something he promised he would do during the campaign. He called them “hostages.”

It was almost in answer to Biden’s earlier commutation of the sentences of some 2,500 inmates doing time on drug charges and related crimes, including a commutation of the life sentence of Native American activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted in 1975 of the killing two FBI agents in a South Dakota shootout.

Some would say, as wrongheaded as they were, most of the Jan. 6 rioters considered themselves patriots. Biden’s bunch were just plain criminals.

It is too bad the ending could not have been like that of “Casablanca” when, with Ingrid Bergman and her hat gone,  French Vichy Captain Louis Renault (actor Claude Rains), repudiates the Nazis to join Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) to fight for freedom.

“I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship,” says Blaine.

Yeah, right. Only in the movies.

Peter Lucas is a veteran political reporter. Email him at: peter.lucas@bostonherald.com