President-elect Joe Biden arrived in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday
Trump delivered Biden one more snub, forcing him to charter his own plane to fly from Delaware to Washington D.C. instead of authorizing an Air Force jet
The president-elect flew the short hop from Delaware to Joint Base Andrews
After they landed, they taxied past an idle Air Force Boeing 757 on the tarmac
Just as the Biden family landed, the White House released a 20-minute farewell video from Trump, which did not mention his successor by name or congratulate him on his victory
Earlier in the day on Tuesday, Biden spoke at an event held at the Major Joseph R. Beau Biden III National Guard / Reserve Center and spoke about his late son
One of the great tragedies of the past year, as some 400,000 Americans lost their lives to Covid-19, was not only that many victims died alone their loved ones robbed of the chance to say goodbye but that the pain of that loss was whitewashed by a President who chose to minimize and deny it.
Biden, an avid fan of Amtrak, had planned to take a train into Washington ahead of Inauguration Day, but scratched that plan after the U.S. Capitol riot.
This week America inaugurates a new president, and the free world gains a new leader.
In Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, I believe Britain has partners for positive action to make our world a safer place.
The US and the UK share enduring values: respect for human dignity and human rights, freedom of speech and thought, representative democracy, equality and the rule of law.
These values have shaped our societies. In the past, we have had common cause to defend them.
Today, those values are under threat once again – and once again, the UK has a responsibility to play its part in defending them.
President-elect Joe Biden teared up in his goodbye to his adopted home state before flying to Washington, D.C. "When I die, Delaware will be written on my heart," Biden said.