WASHINGTON – President-elect Donald Trump and his family traveled to Washington, D.C. ahead of his inauguration ceremony aboard an Air Force plane supplied by President Joe Biden on Saturday.
The president-elect’s private navy and crimson “Trump Force One” and the U.S. military plane were both on the tarmac at Palm Beach International Airport on Saturday. Trump’s son Eric and Eric’s wife Lara boarded the private plane, according to Reuters.
Karoline Leavitt, spokesperson for the Trump-Vance transition team, wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that “The President and First Lady are leaving Mar-a-Lago now for Washington, DC, on a great journey of success for our country!”
For his less than three-hour flight to Washington Dulles International Airport, Trump, his wife Melania, daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared were on a specially configured Boeing BA.N 757-200 in trademark blue and white colors and bearing the words “United States of America.
Upon landing, Trump headed to his golf club in Sterling, Virginia, on the outskirts of Washington, where he’ll join some 500 guests to watch a fireworks display and musical performances that include Leo Days, an Elvis impersonator, and Christopher Macchio, a tenor performing the national anthem at Trump’s inauguration
Trump will also hold a rally with supporters inside the Capital One Arena in downtown D.C. on Sunday, the eve of his inauguration.
Reuters contributed to this report.