Biden stays out of sight while Trump runs MAGA victory lap, both sending messages Anne Gearan, The Washington Post Jan. 12, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail People with liberal group MoveOn.org build signs on the National Mall in Washington on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021.Washington Post photo by Matt McClain WILMINGTON, Del. - President-elect Joe Biden made himself scarce on purpose Tuesday, while President Trump denied responsibility for the deadly siege of the U.S. Capitol carried out in his name and set off for a kind of anti-immigration victory romp along the Texas border. In a bitterly divided nation groping toward Biden's presidency eight days away, each man was speaking a language his supporters understand.