‘It’s been a great honour,’ says Trump as he leaves White House

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;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&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It’s been a great honour&comma; the honour of a lifetime&period; The greatest people in the world&comma; the greatest home in the world&comma;” Mr Trump told reporters before heading to Marine One&comma; rotors whirring&comma; on South Lawn&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We love the American people&comma; and again&comma; it has been something very special&period; And I just want to say goodbye but hopefully it’s not a long term goodbye&period; We’ll see each other again&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump will be the first president in modern history to boycott his successor’s inauguration&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump followed at least one presidential tradition&period; The White House said the Republican president left behind a note for his successor&comma; Democrat Joe Biden&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Deputy press secretary Judd Deere declined to reveal what Mr Trump wrote to Mr Biden or to characterize the sentiment in the note&comma; citing privacy for communication between presidents&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads1--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<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&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Marine One was headed to Joint Base Andrews where Air Force One was parked&comma; a dramatic backdrop against the rising sun&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A red carpet has been placed on the tarmac for Mr Trump to walk as he boards the plane&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Four US Army cannons were waiting to fire a 21-gun salute to the president&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Hundreds of supporters greeted Mr Trump at Andrews&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>By the time Mr Biden is sworn in&comma; Mr Trump will already have landed at his private Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach&comma; Florida&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<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&comma; scaling back federal regulations&comma; normalising relations in the Middle East&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads2--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But Mr Trump largely refused&comma; taking a single trip to the Texas border and releasing a video in which he pledged to his supporters that &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;the movement we started is only just beginning”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In his final hours&comma; Mr Trump issued pardons for more than 140 people&comma; including his former strategist&comma; rap performers &lpar;Lil Wayne and Kodak Black as well&rpar;&comma; ex-members of Congress and other allies of him and his family&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump&comma; awaiting his second impeachment trial&comma; 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&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<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&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In what will be the office of incoming press secretary Jen Psaki&comma; a computer keyboard and mouse on her desk were encased in plastic&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A moving truck had backed up to the door of the West Wing entrance&comma; where the presence of a lone Marine guard usually signals that the president is in the Oval Office&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Most walls were stripped down to the hooks that once held photographs&comma; and offices were devoid of the clutter and trinkets that gave them life&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads3--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>During his time in the capital&comma; Mr Trump rarely left the confines of the White House&comma; except to visit his own hotel&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He and his wife never once ate dinner at any other local restaurant&semi; never ventured out to shop in its stores or see the sites&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>When he did leave&comma; it was almost always to one of his properties&colon; his golf course in Virginia&comma; his golf course in New Jersey&comma; his private club and nearby golf course in Palm Beach&comma; Florida&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The city overwhelmingly supported Mr Biden&comma; with 93&percnt; of the vote&period; Mr Trump received just 5&period;4&percnt; of the vote&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed2e6810618">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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