WASHINGTON: Washington couldn’t turn the page quickly enough from Donald Trump to President Joe Biden.
Trump’s voice faded from the capital he had animated and antagonized since 2017 as he flew to private life in Florida, with his last trip on Air Force One tuned in to Biden’s inauguration on television.
And quite suddenly, at least for the moment, the old ways were back: reverence of custom, rituals dating back two centuries, scenes of grace, calls for unity.
Four years after Trump’s dark portrayal of “American carnage,” Biden set out his intent on the same platform of the flag-bedecked Capitol to write “an American story of hope.”
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Video shows Trump s reception at Mar-a-Lago
An Instagram post by user known as cubanmommy in miami shows the welcome then-President Trump received at his private club when he arrived late Wednesday morning.
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Trump left note for Biden
Despite not attending Wednesday s inauguration, former President Trump did comply with an Oval Office tradition. Specifically, he left a note for his successor, Biden.
President Biden first revealed Trump had left the note when speaking to reporters in the Oval Office. Biden described the note as generous but did not discuss what Trump wrote in it saying it was private and he wanted to first have a conversation with his predecessor.