WATCH: The Nuclear football heading to Joe Biden. Biden Get's the Second Biscuit.
President Trump jetted off to his Florida resort Mar-a-Lago on Wednesday instead of attending the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, marking the first time there will be two nuclear footballs in play.
The nuclear codes Trump brought will be deactivated at noon just as Biden takes the oath of office, according to the Independent, at which point a new set of codes will be handed to the new president.
The last time a president refused to show up at his successor’s inauguration — Andrew Johnson in 1869 — the United States did not possess the world’s deadliest nuclear arsenal, and it would be seven decades before Washington first established the principle that the commander in chief would be given sole authority to launch it.
