Outgoing United States president Donald Trump left the White House for the last time on Wednesday as president with his wife Melania in the presidential helicopter, Marine One, a few hours before the inauguration of his successor, the Democrat. Joe Biden.
Trump goes to Andrews military airbase, Maryland, on the outskirts of Washington, where he will celebrate a brief farewell act with supporters, and later board the presidential plane, Air Force One, for the last time to travel to his private club in Palm Beach, Florida.
The New York magnate thus broke tradition and will not be present at the inauguration ceremony of his successor.
Trump has admitted no defeat in last November’s election and continues to denounce, without evidence, “electoral fraud”.
With his departure from the White House, four turbulent years marked by controversy conclude that he will go down in history as the first US president to open two impeachment trials, the last of which is pending in the Senate.