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Posted: 2021-01-20T13:18:34Z | Updated: 2021-05-04T13:03:52Z

Donald Trump left the White House for the final time as president Wednesday morning, snubbing President-elect Joe Biden s inauguration as he officially ended a term filled with lies, racism, sexism, economic debt, disease, hate and American carnage.

Trump boarded Marine One at the White House just after 8 a.m. and traveled to Marylands Joint Base Andrews for a military-style sendoff featuring a military band and a red carpet lined with armed services personnel.

Read live updates on the inauguration below.

We were not a regular administration, Trump said in a rambling speech at Andrews that touched on the economy, the Space Force and the coronavirus pandemic, which he referred to again with the racist term the China virus.

As the athletes would say, weve left it all on the field, he said.

Have a good life, we will see you soon, he added.

Trump then boarded Air Force One while he still could to travel to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida before Biden was to be sworn in at noon.

The countrys top Republicans said Tuesday that they would skip Trumps departure ceremony in favor of attending inaugural activities with Biden. Vice President Mike Pence was not expected to attend the sendoff and planned to be at Bidens inauguration the latest sign that Trumps relationship with one of his most loyal allies had soured.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) both accepted Bidens invitation to attend Mass at a church in Washington at about the time of Trumps sendoff, according to Axios.

Trump previously said he would not attend Bidens inauguration , in which the new president will take the oath of office in a pared-down ceremony with extremely heightened security.