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		</div><p>Donald Trump pumped his fist and waved as he departed the White House on Marine One on Wednesday for the last time as US president.</p>
<p>“It’s been a great honour, the honour of a lifetime. The greatest people in the world, the greatest home in the world,” Mr Trump told reporters before heading to Marine One, rotors whirring, on South Lawn.</p>
<p>“We love the American people, and again, it has been something very special. And I just want to say goodbye but hopefully it’s not a long term goodbye. We’ll see each other again.”</p>
<p>Mr Trump will be the first president in modern history to boycott his successor’s inauguration.</p>
<p>Mr Trump followed at least one presidential tradition. The White House said the Republican president left behind a note for his successor, Democrat Joe Biden.</p>
<p>Deputy press secretary Judd Deere declined to reveal what Mr Trump wrote to Mr Biden or to characterize the sentiment in the note, citing privacy for communication between presidents.</p>
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<p>Mr Trump has refused to publicly concede to Mr Biden and did not mention the Democrat by name in a pair of farewell addresses.</p>
<p>Marine One was headed to Joint Base Andrews where Air Force One was parked, a dramatic backdrop against the rising sun.</p>
<p>A red carpet has been placed on the tarmac for Mr Trump to walk as he boards the plane.</p>
<p>Four US Army cannons were waiting to fire a 21-gun salute to the president.</p>
<p>Hundreds of supporters greeted Mr Trump at Andrews.</p>
<p>By the time Mr Biden is sworn in, Mr Trump will already have landed at his private Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida.</p>
<p>Aides had urged Mr Trump to spend his final days in office trying to salvage his legacy by highlighting his administration’s achievements — passing tax cuts, scaling back federal regulations, normalising relations in the Middle East.</p>
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<p>But Mr Trump largely refused, taking a single trip to the Texas border and releasing a video in which he pledged to his supporters that “the movement we started is only just beginning”.</p>
<p>In his final hours, Mr Trump issued pardons for more than 140 people, including his former strategist, rap performers (Lil Wayne and Kodak Black as well), ex-members of Congress and other allies of him and his family.</p>
<p>Mr Trump, awaiting his second impeachment trial, will head to Florida with a small group of former White House aides as he charts a political future that looks very different now than just two weeks ago before the Capitol riot.</p>
<p>White House cleaning crews worked overnight on Wednesday and were still going as the sun rose to get the building cleaned and ready for its new occupants.</p>
<p>In what will be the office of incoming press secretary Jen Psaki, a computer keyboard and mouse on her desk were encased in plastic.</p>
<p>A moving truck had backed up to the door of the West Wing entrance, where the presence of a lone Marine guard usually signals that the president is in the Oval Office.</p>
<p>Most walls were stripped down to the hooks that once held photographs, and offices were devoid of the clutter and trinkets that gave them life.</p>
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<p>During his time in the capital, Mr Trump rarely left the confines of the White House, except to visit his own hotel.</p>
<p>He and his wife never once ate dinner at any other local restaurant; never ventured out to shop in its stores or see the sites.</p>
<p>When he did leave, it was almost always to one of his properties: his golf course in Virginia, his golf course in New Jersey, his private club and nearby golf course in Palm Beach, Florida.</p>
<p>The city overwhelmingly supported Mr Biden, with 93% of the vote. Mr Trump received just 5.4% of the vote.</p>
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