The outgoing president, Joe Biden, told the supporters, “we all have more to do” in a farewell of Donald Trump’s opening day.

He added: “We are going to leave the – however, we are not leaving the fight. “

Mr. Biden, 82, addressed supporters and Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on Monday afternoon after seeing his sworn successor at the White House.

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Addressing those who accumulated when Trump faced his supporters, he said: “The point I need to make in my farewell to face: is that we all have more to do. You heard the inaugural mess, we have a lot more to do. “

He stopped to make the sign of the cross, which caused the laugh of the audience. Stopped making the same devotee gesture in the inauguration rite.

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He continued: “Look, I know that from many years of experience, there are ups and downs, we have to continue with that.

“My father taught me that the measure of a person is the speed with which he rises when they are overturned, and that is what we have to do at this time.

“We never give up, we left him, but we didn’t give up the fight. “

He suggested to the members of his management that “they remain committed in any way that”, in the public or personal sector, or “run for yourself. “

“You are intelligent, qualified, compassionate. Your country wishes you again,” he said.

Thanking his former team for their “incredible” work, he said it is “the honor of my life to serve as president,” adding, “It is a greater honor to serve with you. “

They listened to an aclctions of “Thank you Joe” while ending his speech, before he and his wife Jill went up to his Nighthawk 46 helicopter for his post -presidential life.

Biden took advantage of his last hours in office to take into account a series of presidential pardons, the record for any president.

He forgave his brother James and Sara, his sister Valerie and her husband John Owens, and his brother Francis, in reaction to the “relentless attacks” of Donald Trump and his allies.

Among others he used executive powers to pardon were Dr Anthony Fauci – who led the US public health response to the coronavirus pandemic – and members of the committee that investigated the January 6 insurrection.

On Friday, days before he left office, he announced he would be reducing the sentences of almost 2,500 people convicted of non-violent drug offences.

This was on top of 37 people who are currently on death row, who had their sentences converted to life imprisonment.