Joe Biden Inauguration At Noon Will End Trump’s Era After He Becomes The 46TH President Of U.S.A.

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As the Inauguration was proceeding at the Capital and dignitaries cheered as they arrived among them former Vice President Mike Pence, Trump who decided to abscond was already in Florida to begin his retirement.

Today at noon Jan. 20, 2021 as per the US constitution, and observing a tradition that goes back many years back, the president-elect Joe Biden will take the oath of office, promising to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”  his predecessor Trump whether he likes it or not became the former president.

President Trump’s attacks on the election of Joe Biden are unprecedented, but bitterness over losing is nearly as old as the presidency.

He all the same after failing to attend the inauguration, gave his farewell speech outlining his achievements and wishing success to the new administration before boarding the airforce one to Florida.

The inauguration Process

Since George Washington handed the keys to John Adams, the transfer of power between presidents has been complicated, sometimes spiteful and occasionally harrowing, but it has ultimately always been peaceful.

After weeks of falsely claiming that he had won the election and a day after he incited a mob of his supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol, Trump said in a Jan. 7 video that he would work to ensure that the 2021 transition would be peaceful as well.

Sure, the country is best served if incoming and outgoing teams play nicely together, experts say. But some of the most successful U.S. presidents overcame rocky transitions and lousy relationships with their predecessors.

Here’s how the process is supposed to go, according to law and tradition:

After his own too-short transition from Bill Clinton’s administration in 2000, George W. Bush determined that his 2008 handoff to Barack Obama would be the smoothest in history. (2010 photo by Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post)

U.S. law requires that the current administration prepare to help potential newcomers before the election, starting by designating a federal transition coordinator to oversee the process. A White House council plans and guides the transition; another council of career officials from federal agencies prepares key information to share.

Meanwhile, most candidates form a transition team long before they receive their party’s formal nomination. These teams coordinate with their campaigns but work separately, setting priorities, drafting lists of job candidates and figuring out how to turn campaign promises into legislation. Biden’s team is co-managed by Ted Kaufman, who, as a U.S. senator, wrote some of the current transition law. (As the inauguration draws nearer, more of those duties are taken over by incoming White House staff.)

After the conventions, the transition teams of major-party nominees get government office space, secure computers and other support, although the Biden team’s space has gone largely unused because of the pandemic.

Finally, the administration and the nominee’s transition team sign a “memorandum of understanding” formalizing how they will work together.

All that happened as planned this year with relatively little drama.

Then came the election.

Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover wore traditional top hats for the drive to Hoover’s inauguration on March 4, 1929. The custom of the outgoing and incoming presidents riding together began in 1837. (AP)

Since 1937, Election Day and Inauguration Day have been about 75 days apart — not much time to set up a new administration, but plenty of time for things to go wrong.

For well over a century, defeated candidates have swallowed raw feelings, publicly acknowledged their losses and congratulated the winners, a visible first step in the process of national healing. But a president-elect will take office regardless of whether his rival concedes.

Sen. John McCain’s concession speech on Nov. 4, 2008, celebrated the historic nature of Barack Obama’s victory and its particular significance to African Americans. (Melina Mara/The

Foreign leaders send congrats

Almost immediately after the election, heads of state begin contacting the president-elect. There’s even protocol for the order in which he returns calls, usually to NATO

The president-elect sends hundreds of people in “agency review teams” to coordinate with federal agencies after the election. Most are volunteers who have previously worked in those agencies, so they know the basics but need to find out about upcoming events, ongoing operations and critical issues they will face. Presidential nominees can request FBI background checks on these teams before the election so they’ll be ready to deploy immediately after ascertainment.

President-elect Barack Obama and incumbent George W. Bush coordinated during their transition on an effort to pull the country out of the Great Recession. Obama’s transition economic advisory board, shown meeting in Chicago in 2008, included former elected officials, industry CEOs and financial experts. (Linda Davidson/The Washington Post)

“When a president and his team come in, they’re jumping on a moving train,” said Martha Joynt Kumar, director of the White House Transition Project. “The government operations don’t stop — they continue, and you want to know what’s ahead.”

Biden’s inauguration status: 

Biden has deployed more team members (600+) to more agencies (100+) than any previous president. Most agencies have been cooperative. However, Operation Warp Speed, the administration’s coronavirus vaccine and distribution plan, was the Biden team’s top priority. On Jan. 14, the Post reported that the Trump administration barred the Biden team from key meetings and decisions and that cooperation was “uneven.” The team also met resistance from the Office of Management and Budget and the Department of Defense.

The president-elect gets classified briefings

The law requires that the president-elect be briefed on major threats to national security, covert military operations and the like as soon as possible after the election. The outgoing president usually also shares his daily intelligence briefings with the president-elect as a courtesy, and he can do this without the GSA’s ascertainment.

Donald Trump, shown at a 2016 meeting at Mar-a-Lago during his own transition, agreed on Nov. 23 that President-elect Joe Biden should begin receiving intelligence briefings. On Nov. 7, it was apparent that Biden had won the election. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)

As the disputed 2000 election dragged on, Bill Clinton approved providing classified intelligence briefings to George W. Bush two weeks before the GSA declared Bush the winner. (Al Gore was already getting the briefings as the sitting vice president.)

Biden’s status: Biden and Harris began receiving the president’s daily briefings on Nov. 30.

The first couple visits the White House

The outgoing president typically hosts a tour of the White House for the president-elect and his spouse shortly after the election, along with a private discussion in the Oval Office.

Biden’s status: The Trumps have not hosted the Bidens.

George W. and Laura Bush welcomed Barack and Michelle Obama to the White House six days after Obama won the 2008 election. In 2016, the Obamas hosted Donald and Melania Trump just two days after Trump was declared the winner. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post)

Newcomers get crash course in disaster

The Bush-to-Obama transition in 2008-09 also occurred during a fraught time for the country, amid two wars and another financial crisis, but unlike Hoover-to-Roosevelt, it is considered the smoothest in history.

“One transition saved jobs and kept people in their homes; another transition delayed relief from the Great Depression,” said David Marchick, director of the Center for Presidential Transition.

In organizing the outgoing side of that transition, Bush’s chief of staff, Josh Bolten, came up with several innovations that are now required by law. One is preparing and sharing a chilling series of tabletop disaster simulations designed to alert the next administration to potential threats and demonstrate the nation’s emergency response capabilities.

One of the scenarios the Obama team modeled for the Trump team was how to address a global pandemic.

Biden’s status: The National Security Council had been preparing simulations but as of Jan. 8 had not presented them.

The president-elect chooses a staff and Cabinet

Beginning shortly after the election, the president-elect announces the appointments of key White House staff and nominees for top Cabinet positions. Many Cabinet nominees get Senate hearings in January so they can be in place soon after the inauguration. (White House staffers don’t need Senate approval.)

President-elect Jimmy Carter, shown carrying a box of papers to a post-election family vacation in Georgia in 1976, helped create the modern transition process by allocating staff and money to policy preparation before he received the Democratic nomination. (John Duricka/Associated Press)

The 9/11 Commission found that George W. Bush’s short transition — just 37 days — meant he was delayed in filling key positions, leaving the national security apparatus in a long and vulnerable limbo at the time of the terrorist attacks.

Federal law requires that background checks on nominees for top administration jobs be completed as soon as possible so those officials have security clearances before the inauguration.

Biden’s status: Biden immediately chose Democratic adviser Ron Klain as his chief of staff and has filled other senior staff positions. In late November, he began announcing Cabinet nominees. Many Biden nominees have been vetted for previous positions, so updating their clearances should be relatively quick.

A flurry of talking and listening

Before he can act, a president-elect usually holds a few news conferences to let people know what his priorities are and sets up policy summits and meet-and-greets with members of Congress, state and local officials, industry representatives and various other movers and shakers.

Biden’s status: Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala D. Harris have held virtual meetings and roundtables with mayors, governors, congressional leaders, labor and business leaders, health-care workers and other groups.

Bill and Hillary Clinton and Al and Tipper Gore, who had made multiday bus tours a signature of their populist campaign, followed the same route from Charlottesville to Washington for their 1992 inauguration that Thomas Jefferson had taken for his in 1801. (James M. Thresher/The Washington Post)

Appointees resign

The White House chief of staff will ask nearly all political appointees to submit their resignations to clear the decks for the new administration. Career officials inside the departments will be slotted temporarily into some critical jobs for continuity’s sake, until Biden appointees take their seats.

Biden’s status: Chris Liddell, deputy chief of staff, finally sent an email on Jan. 7 asking political appointees to resign.

Presidents have taken the oath of office at the U.S. Capitol 55 times, according to the Architect of the Capitol. Ronald Reagan’s inauguration in 1981 was the first to be held on the West Terrace. (John McDonnell/The Washington Post)

Inauguration Day

The day the formal transition ends is layered with two-plus centuries’ worth of traditions and one essential constitutional requirement: the oath of office.

A friendly lunch — sometimes

A pre-inauguration meal at the White House has been a hallmark of transitions, usually a tea or light lunch before the ride to the Capitol. It is supposed to be cordial and noncontroversial. It isn’t always.

Woodrow Wilson felt his inauguration too solemn an occasion for a dance and canceled the traditional ball, but he managed a chuckle with his predecessor, William Howard Taft, at the White House before the ceremony in 1913. (Library of Congress)

A show of unity in the ride to the Capitol — sometimes

Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren shared a carriage from the White House to the Capitol for Van Buren’s 1837 inauguration, beginning a tradition that most outgoing and incoming presidents would continue, even when they weren’t happy about it.

Trump, who tweeted on Jan. 8 that he won’t attend Biden’s inauguration, will be the first exception since 1869.

Perhaps Harry S. Truman, left, and Dwight D. Eisenhower were smiling at the thought of how they’d soon be rid of each other as they rode to Eisenhower’s 1953 inauguration. Their relationship was so hostile that Eisenhower refused to get out of the car at the White House that morning until Truman came outside, a shocking breach of protocol. One witness, longtime White House usher J.B. West, wrote in his memoir, “I was glad I wasn’t in that car.” (Bob Burchette/The Washington Post)

That year, President-elect Ulysses S. Grant wouldn’t share a carriage with Andrew Johnson, which prompted Johnson to skip Grant’s inauguration. He was the third and most recent president until now to refuse to see his elected successor sworn in.

Both John Adams (1801) and John Quincy Adams (1829) left Washington early to avoid the inauguration. (Two others missed the ceremonies, but not out of anger. Historians don’t think Martin Van Buren intentionally snubbed his friend, William Henry Harrison in 1841; Woodrow Wilson was in poor health and went indoors after riding to the Capitol with Warren G. Harding in 1921.)

A note for the new guy

Each departing president since Ronald Reagan has left a handwritten note for his successor in the Oval Office.

Before Ronald Reagan walked out of the Oval Office for the final time in 1989, he left a note for George H.W. Bush that would begin a tradition. (Dayna Smith/The Washington Post)

President Trump has obliged to tradition and him too left a not to Joe Biden

The most important part

 “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” said Franklin D. Roosevelt in his first inauguration on March 4, 1933. The 20th Amendment, ratified earlier that year, moved subsequent inaugurations to Jan. 20. (Hugh Miller/The Washington Post)

At noon on Jan. 20 after every election, the president-elect takes the oath of office, promising to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” At that moment, his predecessor — whether he likes it or not — becomes the former president.

George H.W. and Barbara Bush and Dan and Marilyn Quayle greet a crowd at the Lincoln Memorial after the 1989 inauguration. On Jan. 20, Joe Biden and Kamala D. Harris will be sworn in as president and vice president. (Dayna Smith/The Washington Post)

This year inauguration was held on the back of the capital due to the attacks that took place after Trump supporters disrupted a meeting at the capital where some people died and others injured.

In most inauguration there are many attendees but due to security reason this year could not attract such crowds.

The country now has a President who is a democrat and who have set out his plans to make America a great Nation. He still has plans to advance democracy in Africa and still help in programs to boost economy and eradicating the Corona virus menace.

The democrats now have a chance to prove that their administration will look into uniting the country and address racial tension that came after incidences of many black American deaths.

The immigration issue is also an area to focus on and solve the case of stranded children in borders who were separated from their parents.

The Trump administration had plans to abolish the greencard lottery and as the Biden administration promised we hope the same will continue and more immigrant out of status processed so that they can become lawful resident

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