After the sedate Joe Biden years, the return of a presidency that is an incessant assault on the senses is a reminder of why so many millions of Americans see Trump as a compelling, historic figure – and why millions more deeply fear him.

Joe Biden pardoned his siblings and their spouses on his way out of the White House, saying Monday that his family had been “subjected to unrelenting attacks and threats, motivated solely by a desire to hurt me — the worst kind of partisan politics.

Shortly before leaving the White House at the end of his term of office, US President Joe Biden posted a photograph of himself and his wife. "One more selfie for the road. We love you, America," he wrote on the platform X on Monday morning.