{"id":110008,"date":"2021-01-20T22:01:08","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T14:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=110008"},"modified":"2021-01-20T22:01:27","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T14:01:27","slug":"trump-leaves-white-house-for-the-last-time-as-us-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=110008","title":{"rendered":"Trump leaves White House for the last time as US president"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/CP115647437.jpg?quality=85&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1200\" alt=\"President Donald Trump gestures as he boards Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021, in Washington. Trump is en route to his Mar-a-Lago Florida Resort. (AP Photo\/Alex Brandon).\"\/><figcaption>President Donald Trump gestures as he boards Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, Wednesday, Jan 20. Trump is en route to his Mar-a-Lago Florida Resort<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>WASHINGTON, Jan 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212;\u00a0Donald Trump has left the White House for the final time as president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He emerged from the building Wednesday morning and strode across the South Lawn,\u00a0saying: \u201cIt\u2019s been a great honour, the honour of a lifetime.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump, 74, and First Lady Melania Trump walked a short red carpet and boarded Marine One on the White House lawn on a sunny but chilly day in Washington for the short flight to Joint Base Andrews where he will board Air Force One.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump will then fly to Florida, where he will stay at Mar-a-Lago.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump is leaving Washington just hours before Joe Biden takes the oath of office as the 46th president.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Four years after standing on stage at his own inauguration and painting a dire picture of \u201cAmerican carnage,\u201d Trump departed the office twice impeached, with millions more out of work and 400,000 dead from the coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Republicans under his watch lost the presidency and both chambers of Congress. He will be forever remembered for the final major act of his presidency: inciting an insurrection at the Capitol that left five dead, including a Capitol Police officer, and horrified the nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump will be the first president in modern history to boycott his successor\u2019s inauguration as he continues to stew about his loss and privately maintains the election that President-elect Joe Biden fairly won was stolen from him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Republican officials in several critical states, members of his own administration and a wide swath of judges, including those appointed by Trump, have rejected those arguments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still, Trump has refused to participate in any of the symbolic passing-of-the-torch traditions surrounding the peaceful transition of power, including inviting the Bidens over for a get-to-know-you visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By the time Biden is sworn in, Trump will already have landed at his private Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, to face an uncertain future, but not before giving himself a grand sendoff \u2014 with a red carpet, a military band and even a 21-gun salute. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, Jan 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212;\u00a0Donald Trump has left the White House for the final time as president. He emerged from the building Wednesday morning and strode across the South Lawn,\u00a0saying: \u201cIt\u2019s been a great honour, the honour of a lifetime.\u201d Trump, 74, and First Lady Melania Trump walked a short red carpet and boarded Marine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":110015,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110008"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/110015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}