President Trump has left the White House. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump walked to the Marine One helicopter on the South Lawn. The Trumps are not attending the Inauguration of Joe Biden at the Capitol and will head to their Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. In brief remarks to reporters, Trump called his tenure the honor of a lifetime.
President Trump is keeping a longtime tradition going. Trump left President-elect Joe Biden a letter inside the Oval Office. The contents of the letter are not known but the notes are typically hand-written and encouraging. The tradition started in 1989 when Ronald Reagan left a letter for George H.W. Bush. Trump had been coy on whether he would leave a note for Biden.