President Donald Trump speaks to his supporters prior to boarding Air Force One to head to Florida. (Pete Marovich - Pool/Getty Images)
In his last appearance as commander in chief, the now-former US president Donald Trump left Washington Wednesday morning (20 January) and flew to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland all to the tune of “Gloria” – and the gays were not impressed.
It was a muted and almost anticlimactic end to the turbulent Trump presidency – a quiet goodbye that contrasted with his own inauguration day, a rain-soaked event where he promised a new era of polarising, populist politics.
In the end, Trump strolled along the White House lawn as he opted to skip president-to-be Joe Biden‘s swearing-in ceremony in his one final shot at smashing a presidential norm.