Presidential notes a rich tradition

ONE of the key characteristics of the Trump administration, especially in the last few months, has been the president’s ability to show how presidential norms are not laws, and traditions – particularly ones involving social graces – can and will be shirked.

Concede the election in a congratulatory phone call to the victor? Nope. Concede at all? Not going to do it.

Welcome the president-elect and the incoming first lady to the White House? Unlikely.

Attend your successor's inauguration? Not happening. But as Donald Trump's term as president came to a close on Wednesday, he embraced one tradition while ignoring so many others, leaving a note in the Oval Office for President-elect Joe Biden, White House spokesperson Judd Deere