President-elect Joe Biden will be sworn in as the United States’ 46th president on Wednesday, in a much scaled back ceremony, due to Covid-19 and the recent Capitol Hill riots in a city that has become a fortress today.

President Donald Trump, who refused to concede defeat and alleged “fraud” on multiple occasions, however, never fails to shockingly surprise and he did this even in his final hours in the office. President-elect Joe Biden did not get what Trump himself got from his predecessor, a government aircraft to take him to Washington D.C. for his Inauguration on January 20, 2017.

The Biden family, who flew from Delaware in a private jet, landed at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland earlier today. As per the protocol, the incoming President get the courtesy of a military aircraft. This tradition is rooted in the smooth transfer of power.

But this is not the only protocol ignored by outgoing president Trump.

Among the others are…

Donald Trump did not even congratulate Joe Biden on winning the election and why would he when he refused to accept the results calling the entire exercise a “fraud”.

In yet another rarity, Trump did not invite Biden to the White House and neither did he offer any cooperation in the transition.

As a tradition, the outgoing president invites the incumbent for tea at the White House on the day of Inauguration. But Trump did not extend any such courtesy to Biden before he left for the Capitol.

Trump has even refused to attend Joe Biden’s inauguration.

In the series of broken traditions, the only tradition he kept was leaving the note for the incoming president, rarity in Trump’s case.

Donald Trump left Washington just three hours ahead of the inauguration of his successor Joe Biden, saying it had been an “incredible four years” and promising to be “back in some form.”

Joe Biden will sign 17 orders and actions hours after being sworn in as President of the US to break from policies of outgoing President Donald Trump and set new paths on immigration, the environment, fighting Covid-19 and the economy.

Vice President-elect Kamala D Harris will also take the oath, just before Biden takes the oath of office. Harris’s appointment will shatter gender and racial barriers that have been there for decades. First-time Senator Kamala Harris, popularly called the ‘female Obama’, created history by becoming the first woman, first Black and first Indian-American vice president of the United States.