WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (Reuters) – President-elect Donald Trump headed to Washington on Saturday ahead of his inauguration on a U.S. military plane provided by U.S. President Joe Biden, as the outbound president stressed sticking to conventional shift standards.
Trump will get here in Washington on Saturday night for events to mark his go back to workplace on Monday.
For the event, he is dropping his navy and crimson “Trump Force One” he typically flies in favor of a federal government airplane Biden sent out to Florida. Biden has actually worried to his authorities that they need to deal with Trump's shift group, a sharp contrast to the last shift when Trump declined to go to the inauguration or acknowledge Biden's win.
Both airplanes rested on the tarmac at Palm Beach International Airport before Trump's departure Saturday. Trump's kid Eric and Eric's spouse Lara boarded the personal airplane.
For his less than three-hour flight to Washington Dulles International Airport, Trump will fly aboard a specifically set up Boeing 757-200 in hallmark blue and white colors and bearing the words “United States of America.”
His child Ivanka and her hubby Jared Kushner were spotted boarding that airplane Saturday afternoon.
It is the very same design airplane that's called Air Force Two when zipped the vice president however is likewise utilized by the very first woman, cabinet members and other high-ranking authorities.
It is the standard for presidents-elect to take such a government-provided aircraft to their inauguration, though Biden did not.
In 2021, Biden had actually prepared to show up by train however the strategy was canceled after the Secret Service raised security issues after countless Trump fans stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, in a quote to reverse his election defeat.
The Trump administration used no aircraft and Biden wound up taking a personal jet to Washington, according to an individual knowledgeable about the matter.
Photos from Trump's 2017 arrival in the Washington location to take workplace for his very first term revealed that he utilized a comparable U.S. airplane then.
The White House and the U.S. Air Force might not instantly be grabbed remark.
(Reporting by Nathan Layne, Trevor Hunnicutt and David Shepardson; Editing by Heather Timmons and Deepa Babington)
