A brief history of some of America’s most fraught presidential transitions Amy McKeever © Photograph by Imagno, Getty
On March 4, 1933, U.S. President Herbert Hoover (left) joins his successor Franklin D. Roosevelt in a convertible en route to his inauguration. Although the men upheld the tradition of traveling together which dates back to 1837 they rode mostly in silence after a rocky transition period.
President Donald Trump’s final days in office have been historically tumultuous. After Trump spent months attempting to overturn the election with baseless claims of voter fraud, an armed mob of his supporters overran the U.S. Capitol to disrupt the counting of electoral college votes. On January 13 a week before the end of his term Trump was impeached (for a second time) in the House of Representatives for inciting that insurrection.
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Introduction
I love writing. And playing with words. Creatively. Literarily. I am not good with poetry, I prefer essays. Alliteration occasionally helps to drive home a message. It has beauty e.g., “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers”, “black bug bit a big black bear”. So, I searched for a befitting headline on how President-elect, Joe Biden, defeated President Donald Trump in a most humiliating manner.
So humbling that, to date, Trump has refused to wake up from his deep slumber of defeat. He still builds castles in the air. He maintains his false illusion of grandeur. He drags America – great America – down the despicable nadir of a Banana Republic, refusing to concede defeat.
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