Despite breaking one of the traditions of transfer of power between presidents by skipping Biden’s inauguration, Donald Trump according to reports left a letter for President-elect Joe biden before departing the White House for the last time as US President.
Confirming this, Judd Deere, White House spokesperson on Wednesday that Trump had written a letter to President-elect Joe Biden and left it for him in the Oval Office’s Resolute Desk.
Although the content of the letter was not made known, recall, in 2017, Trump received a letter from President Barack Obama wishing him and his administration good fortune and urging him to ensure that the “instruments of our democracy at least as strong as we found them.”
“We are just temporary occupants of this office,” President Barack Obama wrote. “That makes us guardians of those democratic institutions and traditions – like rule of law, separation of powers, equal protection and civil liberties – that our forebears fought and bled for. Regardless of the push and pull of daily politics, it’s up to us to leave those instruments of our democracy at least as strong as we found them.”
