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.
President-elect Donald Trump will become the oldest person ever sworn in as president on Monday, but concerns about his age haven’t dogged him the same way they sunk President Joe Biden. Biden was 78 years old during his inauguration in 2021.
It all comes after the tumultuous relationship between Biden and Trump was on full display in the presidential race.
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.
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.
Every president since Ronald Reagan has left a note for his successor, and President Joe Biden could be the first to write a letter to someone who is both his successor and the predecessor who left a note for him.
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.
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.
Online users discussing this rumor pointed to an NBC News article published in the final days of Joe Biden's U.S. presidency.
The super-rich have long played a role in U.S. politics but have an unusually prominent spot in incoming President Donald Trump’s new administration
President Joe Biden has released a farewell letter to Americans, appearing to gibe President-elect Donald Trump. In the letter published online by the White House on Wednesday, Biden appeared to refer to the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters as the "worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War."
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.