Outgoing President Trump will not welcome Joe Biden at White House

Outgoing President Trump will not welcome Joe Biden at White House.

According to U.S. media reports, Donald Trump and Melania Trump will depart the White House as President and first lady on the morning of January 20.

Outgoing President Trump will not welcome Joe Biden

But they will not invite their incoming counterparts, Joe and Jill Biden, inside before they do.

CNN noted it as historic snub to new President Biden.

The dissolving of one of America’s most enduring transfer-of-power rituals — the outgoing president welcoming the incoming president on the steps of the North Portico. Besides then riding with them to the United States Capitol. But now Trump makes just one of the snubs as the outgoing first couple leave Washington.

Instead of a president and first lady, the Bidens will be greeted by the White House chief usher Timothy Harleth, according to a source familiar with the day’s events and planning.

Harleth, a 2017 Trump hire from the Trump International Hotel in Washington, will likely not stay on in the Biden administration, the source said.

Furthermore, sources noted that in all probability someone more familiar with the incoming president and first lady will fill the role of chief usher .

The afternoon of Inauguration Day, then-President Biden will participate in a ceremonial wreath-laying at Arlington National Cemetery.

Three former U.S. presidents to accompany Biden

There, former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama would join them.

It is during these hours the bulk of the Bidens’ personal effects will be moved into the White House and unpacked, according to another source with knowledge of executive residence practices.

By that time, all Trump paraphernalia will be gone, and a thorough top-to-bottom cleaning of the entire White House campus will have been completed.

Deeper cleaning protocols arranged via the White House with outside contractors, on top of regular cleaning done.

The staff done it with specialized attention to rugs, carpets, curtains and surfaces, to tackle any possibility of lingering germs, of the Covid-19 sort or otherwise.

“Moving furniture and vacuuming, cleaning baseboards, vacuuming drapes, wiping down shades, cleaning chandeliers, washing windows, high dusting,” remain areas all covered during the traditional move-in of a new president and his family, according to the residence source.

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“That cleaning will start as soon as Donald Trump and Melania Trump depart.”

A particular focus of this move will be paid to the bedrooms in the residence, where new mattresses and box springs for the incoming first family are standard operating procedure, according to the source.

Yet one part of the bedroom set-up will be markedly different with the Bidens than it was for the Trumps: the Bidens will be sharing a bedroom.

Melania Trump spent the majority of her time in the White House in the large bedroom suite typically reserved for Presidents and their spouse, adjacent to the West Sitting Hall, according to a source with knowledge of the arrangement.

“Donald Trump slept in his own bedroom, which was previously a study or den during other administrations,” the source said of the arrangement.

On Monday, moving trucks were spotted in the driveways of Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, with movers loading dollies of boxes and items and rolling them into the private club, which will serve as the Trumps’ post-White House home, which is the plan for now, said another source with knowledge of the planned living arrangements and security arrangements set in place.

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