The triumphant return of Donald Trump
Donald Trump said goodbye to his supporters on the morning of January 20, 2021, at Andrews Air Force Base just outside of Washington, D.C., before leaving for his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. “Goodbye. We love you. We’ll be back in some form,” he said, with First Lady Melania at his side, dressed in black, as if in mourning. The loudspeakers blared the strains of YMCA — the Village People song that’s part of the soundtrack of Trumpism — as the couple walked, hand-in-hand, to the steps of Air Force One, the presidential jet.
