But in a break with tradition, Mr Trump will not be attending his successes.

Inauguration aunt He's decided to flight his resort in Florida sometime in the morning.

Thousands of soldiers have been deployed around Washington, D.

C.

And the biggest security operation ever seen for a presidential inauguration.

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Capitol eyes, of course, being protected.

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American democracy has been fenced off following the riot by Mr Trump supporters a fortnight ago.

Andi s o On the eve of that inauguration, let's join our North America editor, John So Paul, who's in Washington que It's being a presidency that has defied all convention on Why should it end any differently?

Joe Biden has now arrived in Washington D.

C.

A few moments ago, and he's going to spend the night just across the street from the White House.

But Donald Trump, Mr Biden will not meet instead tomorrow morning, Donald Trump will be up early.

He's awarded himself a military parade at Andrews Air Force Base on, then the inauguration without Donald Trump will take place.

Just a mark of how bitter relations have become between the president and the vice president.

Mike Pence has decided that he will skip that Donald Trump leaving do but attend Joe Biden's inauguration, where once a sea of faces would greet the incoming president as he stood on the Capitol steps Tomorrow it will be flags, thousands and thousands of Stars and Stripes.

This is partly about co vid, but even more so now about security.

The entire National Mall, which stretches for two miles, has been closed off Washington D.

C has been transformed into a fortress with 25,000 National Guardsmen drafted in razor wire and fencing everywhere.

Now, nearly two weeks on from the storming of Congress by a mob incited by Donald Trump, we fight like hell.

And if you don't fight like hell, you're not gonna have a country anymore.

The shock in America over that attempt to overthrow a fair and free election seems to deepen.

With each passing day not dissipate on, Washington has become a city on edge.

The last time the president was seen in public was a week ago when he went to the border wall, something he'd point to as one of his achievements from the four years in office.

But it will be his behavior since the election that will be his lasting legacy.

The most audacious and unexpected foreign policy move came when Donald Trump flew to Singapore to meet his North Korean counterpart, Kim Jong Un.

The meeting defuse tensions but has done nothing to slow North Korea's nuclear program here.

Donald Trump's election plans were upended by the co vid outbreak on the damage it did to the U.

S economy.

Coronavirus didn't cost him the election, but his erratic handling, off it and occasionally bizarre statements didn't help him.

And then I see the disinfectant.

It knocks it out in a minute, one minute, and is there a way we could do something like that?

Bye injection.

Just a little later, America was convulsed by the death of George Floyd at the hands of a white policeman.

Amid the protests and rioting, Donald Trump saw an opportunity to present himself as the tough president of Law and Order.

Tonight he's issued a farewell video.

This week, we inaugurate a new administration and pray for its success in keeping America safe and prosperous.

But there's still no concession that he lost on now.

Impeach twice.

It will be what's happened in America since the presidential election that Donald Trump will likely be remembered for.

He still faces a tricky Senate trial with the influential Republican leader, once a firm supporter.

Piling in the mob was Fed lies.

They were provoked by the president and other powerful people.

But from tomorrow, the focus will be on Joe Biden today, leaving Wilmington, Delaware, for the last time before he's sworn in.

Well, excuse the emotion, but when I die, Delaware written on my heart, there'll be a flurry of announcements and actions in his first days in office.

But perhaps the overriding goal will be to lower the political temperature on Bring a Fractured Nation together.

It'll be a Herculean task on today.

In Donald Trump's final day in office, the grim death toll from coronavirus past 400,000 is going to be one of the biggest challenges that Joe Biden faces when he takes over to improve the rollout of vaccines to get more people to wear masks.

As our correspondent Nick Bryant reports, and I should say his report does contain flashing images.

We normally associate New York with self confidence of America, but the coronavirus crisis has shown us the frailties of the world's most powerful land.

In the final weeks of the Trump presidency, there have been days where more than 4000 Americans have died.

Ah, higher death toll than on September the 11th.

It's bizarre.

It's scary.

It's frightening.

Angelina Proia lost her father.

They're not in the same reality.

I mean, the morning made more painful by family members who refused to believe the coronavirus took his life.

She's angry at Donald Trump for spreading misinformation on downplaying the pandemic.

Furious, angry, confused, um, disconnected abandoned those air all ways to describe how I feel there are 350,000 plus people have died, and it doesn't seem like any of those people matter.

I mean, it's insane.

No, we've seen queues for covert testing.

We've seen queues for covert aid, but there's hope that the end of this line of medical staff and teachers, a school gym that only weeks ago served as a polling station has now become a vaccine hub done much to the relief of New Yorkers such as Michelle Kleinbaum, a teacher on the educational frontlines.

I've been working in person pretty much since the beginning, and it just feels like a weight's been lifted off my shoulders that I can go back now with a different piece of mind.

Joe Biden has set the goal of 100 million doses in the 1st 100 days of his presidency, and despite concerns about vaccine supply here, we witnessed a can do spirit that so emphatically America.

There's been so much despondency in this city for the past 10 months, But this is really the turning point.

I believe it will be the turning point.

We're gonna get New York City back up and running in no time, a little bit more spread out.

Give yourself 6 ft.

Give yourself 6 ft.

This isn't just a health crisis.

It's been an economic catastrophe.

And in the city that never sleeps, we're seeing food banks now having to open 24 hours a day.

Joe Biden is promising an almost $2 trillion rescue package.

The challenge is enormous.

Crisis is huge, but America is strong and I believe and I'm hopeful that the president could turn things around.

There'll be talk of a new day in America, But will the Biden presidency really be a panacea?

The politics of this country is so sickly, the divisions are so deep, the coronavirus is revealed.

So many American ailments.

Nick Bryant, BBC News New York Undoubtedly, there will be a lot of talk tomorrow about a new era starting in America.

And of course, that's true to a certain extent.

There'll be a new occupant in the White House.

But the problems that Joe Biden inherits don't just disappear.

With the 46th president starting his term on, you can tell that by the security that we can see behind me that's had to be put in place following the bitterly contested election.

The division, the 74 million people who voted for Donald Trump, who still may feel that they need some convincing.

And I think that is going to be the focus of Joe Biden's inaugural address, that this is a time of grave national peril for the United States of America on that it is time for the people to come together.

The words will be powerful but delivering it is going to be on uphill struggle that will probably determine the success or failure of the Biden era.

Huge.

John will be back with you in Washington tomorrow.

Thank you very much, John.

So called Our North America editor.