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BOXES: The Trump administration unpacking is underway. Photo: Gerald Herbert / AP
Images of stacks of cardboard boxes outside the White House are visible evidence that Donald Trump’s time as president is coming to an end. In five days, Joe Biden and his team will be moving.
Brown and white cardboard boxes and plastic boxes are stacked on top of each other in the narrow, closed street between the west wing of the White House and the Eisenhower Building.
The first is the oval office of the president, as well as the offices of many of his closest associates. In the latter, the vice president has his office. The same goes for other members of the Trump administration.
Now these two buildings are being emptied. Moving cars fill the street. A president and his administration leave. Another is entering.
This is visible, and quite practical, proof that Donald Trump’s time as president is numbered.
MOVING CAR: Cardboard boxes are ejected by moving cars.
Break the tradition
The view, of course, is nothing new. It happens every eight to four years, depending on whether a president gets two terms or not. Most people get two, but for Trump it was one.
But while moving boxes are not uncommon, the circumstances surrounding Donald Trump’s departure from the White House are highly unusual. He has denied losing an election that he lost. He has lit up his followers with lies that their elections have been stolen. And he has not apologized for his rhetoric after the same supporters attacked Congress.
THE OVAL OFFICE: Donald Trump has only five days left in what is perhaps the most famous office in the world. Photo: Carlos Barria / Reuters
He has also said that he will not attend his successor’s inauguration ceremony. Which is very unusual. It has been more than 100 years since the last time it happened.
He is also not expected to greet Joe Biden and future First Lady Jill Biden at the White House in the morning hours before the inauguration ceremony Wednesday morning, as Barack and Michelle Obama did for him and Melania Trump. four years.
Tradition is that a helicopter picks up the deceased president at the rear of the Congress building after the inauguration ceremony is over, and flies the presidential Air Force One plane, which then flies to wherever in the country he lives.
2017: This is how it was when Melania and Donald Trump visited Michelle and Barack Obama in the White House just hours before Trump took office. Photo: Evan Vucci / TT NEWS AGENCY
21 shots salute
But since Trump is not going to attend the ceremony, it is not going to happen that way. Trump will likely have already left Washington, DC when Biden is sworn in at 12:00 local time on Wednesday of next week. Report to various US media.
CNN’s Jim Acosta, White House reporter, write on Twitter that a farewell ceremony will be held on Wednesday morning at the Andrews Joint Base Airport, where the presidential Air Force One plane is parked. According to him, the ceremony will be reminiscent of the events they have when a head of state who has been on an official visit he leaves the United States.
COMING SOON: Kamala Harris and Joe Biden take over the White House in the middle of next week. Photo: Matt Slocum / AP
This will include honor guards, military corps, a red carpet, and a 21-shot salute.
From Joint Base Andrews, Trump will likely fly Air Force One to Palm Beach, Florida, where he has a private address, after announcing a move from New York some time ago.
Obama letter
A few hours after the plane takes off, Joe Biden will enter the doors of the White House. When you enter the Oval Office, you will probably open the drawer of the large brown office desk to see if Trump has broken another tradition.
The usual thing is that the resigned president has left a letter to the new president. These letters usually contain a wish for happiness and some well-intentioned advice.
LETTER: Donald Trump showed him the letter Barack Obama wrote him after moving into the White House. Mike Pence behind him in the picture. Photo: MANDEL NGAN / AFP
When Barack Obama resigned four years ago, he wrote in his letter to Donald Trump that it was important to remember that presidents are only temporary and that they must therefore ensure that the country’s democratic institutions are at least as strong when they leave. . work like when they started.
He also praised Trump for an impressive election campaign, writing that he hoped the country under Trump would experience greater prosperity and security.
Stuffed Bird and Lincoln Bust
Another thing that is also unclear if Trump will do is give a farewell speech, in which he presents what he sees as his greatest political victories during his term as American leader. NBC News reports that some of its advisers have begun writing a speech, but it is unclear if it will take place.
MEMORY: Peter Navarro takes a photo home. Photo: ERIN SCOTT / Reuters
But what is certain, as the images in this case show, is that Trump and his people are leaving the White House. One image shows, for example, adviser Peter Navarro carrying a framed photo of Trump in talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Photos posted on Twitter by White House reporters show things like Chief of Staff Mark Meadows’ wife Debbie carrying out what appears to be a stuffed bird and a man carrying out a bust of Abraham Lincoln, who is a part from the art collection belonging to the White House.
After this image was tweeted, there were guarantees that the objects in the collection are in good hands.
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