“Democracy won. ” Joe Biden became the 46eAmerican President, Wednesday January 20, during a day of“Hope” for America.
“The will of the people has been heard and the will of the people has been respected”, said the new head of state, a few minutes after taking the oath. Mr. Biden also called on America to “The unit” during his twenty-one minute address and vowed to be the president of all Americans.
In a warning against the arrival of “The hardest phase” pandemic, the new president called on Americans to put aside their differences to face this “Dark winter”. “We will get by together”, he assured, before observing a minute of silence in tribute to the 400,000 “Mothers, fathers, husbands, wives, sons, daughters, friends, neighbors and colleagues” killed by Covid-19.
The new president further urged Americans to reject manipulation of facts, in a reference to his predecessor, Donald Trump, who for weeks denied the outcome of the November 3 election and popularized, during his tenure, expression “Fake news”. He also promised to “Conquer” the “White supremacism” and the “Domestic terrorism”, two weeks after the violence at the Capitol.
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Joe Biden officially appointed president
“I, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr, solemnly swear that I will faithfully serve as President of the United States and that I will do my best to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. “
It was after uttering the consecrated formula, with his hand resting on the family Bible, in front of the President of the Supreme Court, John G. Roberts, that Mr. Biden officially became the 46e American president.
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“A new day is dawning in America”, had tweeted shortly before the one who became, at 78, the oldest president at the start of his term.
Kamala Harris, First Woman Vice-President
A few minutes earlier, it was his running mate, Kamala Harris, who had taken the oath. The former Californian senator thus entered the history books as the first woman as well as the first black person of Indian origin to occupy this function.
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Former prosecutor, 56 years old and the daughter of immigrants, she was sworn in before Supreme Court judge Sonia Sotomayor, her hand on a bible held by her husband, Doug Emhoff.
Donald Trump returns to Florida
It is a rare fact: the outgoing president did not attend the inauguration ceremony of his successor. It was in his luxury residence in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, that Donald Trump began his life as a former president on Wednesday.
As the inauguration ceremony for his Democratic successor began to be in full swing in Washington, the outgoing president arrived in Florida on a final flight in Air Force One aboard his wife, Melania, their son, Barron, as well as Donald Trump’s children Ivanka, Donald Jr and Eric.
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“We have the biggest country in the world”, had declared the 45e President a few hours earlier in a short statement with campaign speech accents, except this time it was to say goodbye. “It was for me the greatest honor and the greatest privilege to be your president”, he added, assuring that he would return from“One way or another”.
“To Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, my best wishes on this historic day for the American people. “ Emmanuel Macron sent a Tweet in English on Wednesday his “Best wishes for success” to the new American president and welcomed his decision to return to the Paris climate agreement, left by the United States in 2017.
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The British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, also congratulated the new American president, saying “Impatient to work” with him. “Europe is ready for a new start”, launched on his side Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Commission. The Canadian Prime Minister, Justin trudeau, he said to himself, “Looking forward to working with President Biden” in order to “Seek to return [leurs] safer, more prosperous and more resilient countries ”. The Brazilian President, Jair Bolsonaro, nicknamed the “Trump of the tropics”, also congratulated Joe Biden, while it had taken more than a month to recognize the victory of the Democrat.
For its part, the China imposed penalties for violating its “Sovereignty” to twenty-eight officials in Donald Trump’s government, including his secretary of state, Mike Pompeo. “In recent years, anti-Chinese politicians in the United States have, out of selfish political interests and their prejudice and hatred against China, without any consideration for the interests of the Chinese and American peoples, planned, promoted and taken crazy measures “the foreign ministry said in a statement. In particular, the personalities concerned will no longer be able to enter Chinese territory.
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