A White House press pool report notes one more moment from Obama’s procession just then down the colonnade:
Obama asked reporters “how’s it going?” Reporters asked Obama if he felt nostalgic. “Of course,” he replied.
There’s some of that in the air today.
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The Trumps have just left church and hopped in a car. Next stop: White House.
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.
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 …
We now have a roving live video stream of the Inauguration proceedings atop the blog. Soon we should be seeing the Trumps leaving church to head to the White House. Meanwhile there’s footage of the crowd on the National Mall.
Obama: ‘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.
It’s been the honor of my life to serve you. You made me a better leader and a better man.
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 .
I’m still asking you to believe – not in my ability to bring about change, but in yours. I believe in change because I believe in you.
Someone in New York City has unfurled a banner on the 59th St Bridge reading “Bridges not walls”:
My sister sends this image of the Queensboro bridge in NYC, where protestors today have unfurled a banner that says Bridges Not Walls.
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.
Trump and Melania spotted leaving this AM with the First Lady to be wearing a very Jackie O esque outfit.
Donald and Melania Trump, who was wearing a light blue outfit that TV anchors compared to the style of Jackie Kennedy, are leaving Blair House in Washington and getting into a large black car. Trump was wearing a long black coat and red tie.
Vice-president-elect Mike Pence has arrived at St John’s Church for the service that the Trumps will also attend, MSNBC reports.
About 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.
Trucks blocking one of the roads leading to the White House in Washington DC
As Donald Trump prepares to take the oath of office, his wax likeness is appearing in museums around the world
Protesters chanting “no Tump, no KKK, no racists, fascists, go away” have disrupted preparations for the inauguration.
In Washington Trump protesters appear to have made it through security.
Half the line seem to be anti-Trump. Protesters being let thru and assembling on inside
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