Dana Houle @DanaHoule
US President Barack Obama departs the Oval Office for the last time as president Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images
Not my president’
Protesters in D.C. chant “not my president” before the start of the #inauguration http://politi.co/2jUBijV
POLITICO Barack Obama has just left the Oval Office for the last time as president, presumably having left a letter for Trump inside on the Resolute desk. Reporters called out as Obama walked down the West Wing colonnade.
Jeff Zeleny 
Jeff Mason Shepard Fairey, the artist who created the original Obama “Hope” poster, has done a new series titled We the People – check it out at Mic.com. The Washington Post has printed one entry on the back of today’s A section – for use at the inauguration?
Here is my momma reading the Washington Post.Here’s the story from @JackSmithIV of that image on the back page: https://mic.com/articles/165694/inauguration-day-poster-obama-hope-shepard-fairey#.oMhDpGKYz …
Ali Gharib @Ali_GharibObama: ‘I’m still asking you to believe’
President (still for about the time it takes to watch a feature-length film) Obama is tweeting some farewell notes.
@potus is about to change.
President Obama
I won’t stop; I’ll be right there with you as a citizen, inspired by your voices of truth and justice, good humor, and love.
As we look forward, I want our first steps to reflect what matters most to you. Share your thoughts with me at http://Obama.org .
Someone in New York City has unfurled a banner on the 59th St Bridge reading “Bridges not walls”:
Garance Franke-Ruta Dan Scavino, Trump’s social media director, is in church with him. Tweeting in church!
‘I told you – that you would be the 45th President of the United States, long before the first primary vote…’
Pastor @robertjeffress
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People have been tweeting pictures of the Trumps leaving the building. They are now on their way to the church in a large convoy of black cars.
Miranda Green 
WestCoastCon @jonyoursideAbout 28,000 security personnel, kilometres of fencing, roadblocks, street barricades and dump trucks laden with sand are part of the security cordon about eight square kilometres of central Washington, AP reports.
Paul Owen
AFP news agency Protesters chanting “no Tump, no KKK, no racists, fascists, go away” have disrupted preparations for the inauguration.
Ken Gonzales @KenGonzoIn Washington Trump protesters appear to have made it through security.
Paul Mason 
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