When Donald Trump takes control of the White House on Monday, he will inherit something his voters hardly would have expected during a long campaign of berating outgoing President Joe Biden on immigration: a U.S.-Mexico border with the lowest number of illegal crossings in five years.
It all comes after the tumultuous relationship between Biden and Trump was on full display in the presidential race.
President-elect Donald Trump headed to Washington on Saturday ahead of his inauguration on a U.S. military airplane supplied by U.S. President Joe Biden, as the outgoing president emphasized sticking with traditional transition norms.
President Joe Biden — in an interview with MSNBC ’s Lawrence O’Donnell that aired Thursday and which was Biden’s last TV sit-down as POTUS ― reflected on his failure to hype up his and Democratic accomplishments when in office.
The president-elect's private navy and crimson "Trump Force One" and the U.S. military plane were both on the tarmac at Palm Beach International Airport on Saturday. Trump's son Eric and Eric's wife Lara boarded the private plane, according to Reuters.
President Joe Biden is spending his final full day in office in South Carolina. It's a state that holds special meaning for him. Biden's win in the state's 2020 Democratic primary set him up to achieve his life's goal of becoming president.
President Biden entered office alongside a hopeful media, but as four years passed, members of the press were quick to point out that Donald Trump's return would be his legacy.
Lawmakers plan to skip the festivities surrounding the incoming Republican president for various reasons, as Democrats lick their wounds after election season.
In his final week in the White House, the president has made it much more difficult for his successor to undo Russian sanctions.
A bipartisan bill banning TikTok was passed by Congress and signed into law by Biden last year. While Trump previously called for a ban on the app due to its ties to the Chinese government, he has more recently been opposed to the ban and indicated that he will seek to reverse it.
Biden’s win in the state’s 2020 Democratic primary set him up to achieve his life’s goal of becoming president.