Donald Trump has said the movement he started as US president was “only just beginning”, acknowledging the imminent handover of power while avoiding any reference to president-elect Joe Biden by name in a farewell address from the White House.
In his final pre-recorded remarks posted before he departs the US capital for Florida on Wednesday, Mr Trump touted his administration’s accomplishments and the personal role he played in everything from his trade war with China to the Covid-19 pandemic.
“I took on the tough battles, the hardest fights, the most difficult choices — because that’s what you elected me to do,” Mr Trump said on Tuesday, calling himself “the only true outsider ever to win the presidency”.