With one day left in his term, President Donald Trump still clings angrily and frustrates the Republicans he believes have abandoned him. He still continues to insist to those around him that he did win the election he lost.
Trump has been in a bad mood for several days now, and has reportedly lost all interest in the “show” element of the presidency, which he has loved so much over the past four years, making him one of the most eccentric and extraordinary presidents the U.S. has known. , The president is encouraged by the fact that the crowd at his successor’s inauguration ceremony will be relatively small, due to the corona virus.
Trump has not left the White House in recent days, and has not been seen in public for about a week, since speaking out on the January 6 break-in at Capitol Hill. Today, a video he shot is expected to be published in which he boasts of a number of achievements with the help of which he will seek to define his government historically. Unlike most of his predecessors in office, no orderly farewell speech was scheduled.
Trump condemns violent riots in Washington Capitol (Photo: Reuters)
The outgoing president reportedly referred in his taped message to the “new administration” but declined to comment on his successor, president-elect Joe Biden. On his final day in office, Trump is expected to sign a long list of pardons and may even sign a set of new execution orders, according to White House sources. According to official reports, President Amos’ schedule is busy from morning to evening, but most of his official meetings and talks have reportedly been canceled. Also in the last discussion he was supposed to attend with his Corona team, Vice President Mike Pence is expected to replace him.
Along with Trump’s anger and frustration at the election results, last week’s vote to oust him in the House of Representatives was probably too much for him. Already last week, Trump criticized the intention to replace him, in the shadow of the fact that all the major social networks blocked his accounts and thus actually significantly damaged his ability to express himself and his way of communicating with the people. President Trump is particularly angry about the matter, because he sees this move as the “Deep State”‘s way of sabotaging his legacy.
Yesterday, a number of transport trucks left the White House in Washington for Mar-a-Lago, President Trump’s private residence in South Florida. He is reportedly expected to leave the capital early in the morning, and not take part in the inauguration of the new president Biden, not before taking part in a relatively small military ceremony, at the Andrews military base in Washington.
Meanwhile, the two U.S. National Guard soldiers were today dismissed from the defense team in which they took part, ahead of the swearing-in ceremony. All this while the American capital is on high alert ahead of the ceremony, and in the American security system there is great fear of an assassination attempt on Biden’s life.
The great concern of Biden’s staff
Amid reports of Trump’s frustration, the team of President-elect Biden has expressed concern in recent days about what they call “all the things we do not yet know.” Along with Biden’s big criticism of Trump’s deal with the virus, which dictated his entire election campaign, his Corona staff express concern that the Trump administration is not sharing with them all the hard details about the outbreak of the disease in the US.
The United States is the country with the highest morbidity and mortality from corona in the world, and the health care system there is under the greatest distress in its last 100 years. Biden will inherit with the mourner hundreds of thousands of sons who have died from the disease The country, alongside the fact that a substantial vaccine infrastructure has not yet been developed in the country.
“We are not going to deny the fact that we are facing a tremendous effort that will require the hard work of millions of Americans,” said Bill Foster, a Democratic Party representative in the House of Commons member of the Corona Virus Subcommittee. Foster described the Biden administration’s briefings as “good and helpful”, but clarified: “There is not going to be any magic solution.”
The main concern right now among Biden’s staff is the supply of vaccines and making the weak distribution effort grow as expected. Sources in Biden’s team are concerned about what they call the “lack of an effective and reliable line of communication between the various states and the federal government.” In the first phase, the new administration understands that increasing federal involvement in the treatment of Corona is necessary in order to improve coping.