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Trump Leaves White House For The Last Time As President
Donald Trump left the White House for the final time as president Wednesday morning, snubbing President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration as he officially ended a term filled with lies, racism, sexism, economic debt, disease, hate and American carnage.
Trump boarded Marine One at the White House just after 8 a.m. and traveled to Maryland’s Joint Base Andrews for a military-style sendoff featuring a military band and a red carpet lined with armed services personnel.
Read live updates on the inauguration below.
“We were not a regular administration,” Trump said in a rambling speech at Andrews that touched on the economy, the Space Force and the coronavirus pandemic, which he referred to again with the racist term “the China virus.”
“As the athletes would say, we’ve left it all on the field,” he said.
“Have a good life, we will see you soon,” he added.
Trump then boarded Air Force One — while he still could — to travel to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida before Biden was to be sworn in at noon.
The country’s top Republicans said Tuesday that they would skip Trump’s departure ceremony in favor of attending inaugural activities with Biden. Vice President Mike Pence was not expected to attend the sendoff and planned to be at Biden’s inauguration — the latest sign that Trump’s relationship with one of his most loyal allies had soured.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) both accepted Biden’s invitation to attend Mass at a church in Washington at about the time of Trump’s sendoff, according to Axios.
Trump previously said he would not attend Biden’s inauguration, in which the new president will take the oath of office in a pared-down ceremony with extremely heightened security.
Only a handful of presidents in U.S. history, all in the 1800s, boycotted their successor’s inauguration or left Washington early. (Richard Nixon did not attend Gerald Ford’s...
