Came the day.
Joe Biden will be sworn in on Wednesday in Washington as president of the United States, the 46th president in the country's history, thus leaving behind the most controversial, Donald Trump.
In his last day in the White House, the Republican has pardoned 73 people, including his former strategist Steve Bannon, and has issued 70 commutations of sentences.
The US capital is armored for the opening ceremony.
Up to 25,000 members of the National Guard, in addition to 2,750 Pentagon personnel, will ensure the security of the event, also marked by restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic.
On Tuesday, Biden and his future vice president, Kamala Harris, honored the memory of the victims of the epidemic at a ceremony in Washington.
The Democrat, who will present a dozen executive orders on the first day of government, will experience an atypical inauguration day, with no public present on the esplanade in front of the Capitol, which on January 6 experienced an assault by Trump's followers.
Senate Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blamed Trump Tuesday for provoking the mob that stormed the Capitol and definitively broke with the president, who has yet to face the
impeachment
that could disqualify him for a second term in four years.
