Donald Trump Has Left the Building

After four seemingly endless years in power, the end of the Trump era is upon us

Garance Franke-Ruta
GEN
Published in
2 min readJan 20, 2021

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President Donald Trump boards Marine One as he departs the White House on January 20. Photo: Eric Thayer/Getty Images

There was no adoring throng of supporters wishing him well from the White House lawn. There were no final goodbye tweets. There was no friendly welcome to the Bidens, no participation in the pageantry of the peaceful democratic transition of power. A president who never…

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Garance Franke-Ruta
GEN
Writer for

Executive Editor, GEN by Medium. Previously: Yahoo News, The Atlantic, The Washington Post. garance-at-medium-dot-com.