International
oi-Deepika S
Washington, Jan 20: Donald Trump on Wednesday skipped his successor Joe Biden”s inauguration and exited the White House for the last time as president to board a flight to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, which will be his permanent home after he failed to win his re-election bid.
Trump, 74, has already announced that he will not attend the inauguration of Biden as President and Kamala Harris as the Vice President, becoming the first president to skip his successor”s inauguration since Andrew Johnson in 1869.
He left the White House on Marine One presidential helicopter.
Trump, a Republican, became the first US president to lose a re-election bid since 1992. In 1992, George HW Bush failed to win his second bid for the White House.
He will host a farewell ceremony at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland before catching a final flight on Air Force One to begin…