The era of Democrat Joe Biden kicks off today at the White House with the swearing in and inauguration ceremony.
Immediate break with Donald Trup's legacy: the new US president will kick off his new administration with 17 executive orders, including the return of the United States to the Paris climate agreement and the WHO.
The president of the EU council Charles Michel proposes to the US a new founding pact to build a better world together.
And he invites Biden to an extraordinary meeting of the European Council.
For Ursula Von der Leyen we are at 'a new dawn for the US and the EU'.
For Trump a bitter farewell, full of frustration, anger and resentment.
Before leaving the White House, he graces 73 people, including his former adviser Steve Bannon, and promises: "our movement is only just beginning".
In a video recorded Monday night in the Blue Room of the White House and released 24 hours later, on the eve of the changing of the guard, Trump never mentions Joe Biden but for the first time he goes so far as to invite Americans to "pray for the new administration," to be successful in keeping the country prosperous and safe. "
A goal, he stresses, for which "luck" is also needed.
But his are the words of a leader at the end of the line who continues not to accept defeat and who ended his mandate dramatically, overwhelmed by his own excesses.
For this reason he was left alone, surrounded only by his family and by a very small patrol of loyal and irreducible people.
"I want you to know that our movement is only just beginning," Trump promises.
Meanwhile, First Lady Melania Trump has instructed her assistants to leave a note of thanks to the White House staff.
Some sources report this to the American media.
