A little over an hour after the president Donald Trump sworn in, former President Joe Biden and former First Lady Jill Biden left DC by helicopter. Nighthawk 46 – known as Marine One while the current president is aboard – took them to Joint Base Andrews where the departing president addressed a crowd of supporters.
“It has been the honor of my life to serve as your president,” Biden told the crowd before telling them, “I love you all.”
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Biden and the former first lady boarded Special Air Mission 46 at Joint Base Andrews after the inauguration ceremony on January 20, 2025. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)
After he finished his brief remarks, the former president and his wife traveled to California’s Santa Ynez Valley for some private time.
While some went to the Santa Barbara airport hoping to see Biden’s plane land, however, a “no-fly” notice in the airspace around Vandenberg indicated the former president would be landing there, local newspaper KEYT reported.
“He and Jill visited last summer so this is his second visit in less than a year,” Shelby Sim, president/CEO of Visit the Santa Ynez Valley, told People magazine. Sim also told the outlet that there are “rumors” that the former president wants to buy a house in the area, but insisted that this visit is “purely for R&R.”
Biden and the former first lady walk to Air Force One during a farewell ceremony at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on January 20, 2025, following Trump’s inauguration.
The Bidens also traveled to the Santa Ynez Valley after the former president delivered a speech at the Democratic National Convention just weeks after dropping out of the 2024 race. They reportedly stayed with a “friend,” billionaire donor Joe Kiani New York Post reported at the time.
Kiani gave nearly $3 million to Biden’s super PAC, foundation and inaugural committee, according to House Republicans who disputed the relationship. Meanwhile, in September 2021, Kiani received an appointment from Biden to sit on his Council of Science and Technology Advisors, which advises the executive branch on policy matters involving Kiani’s medical technology business, Masimo. Since Biden took office in January 2021, Masimo has received nearly $3 million in federal contracts, according to Republicans.
During their last visit to the area after the then-president dropped out of the race in August, the Bidens reportedly stayed at the Kiani Reservation, an 8,000-acre property owned by the billionaire donor of the same name.
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Biden and the former first lady board a helicopter to be flown from the east facade of the United States Capitol in Washington, DC, following Trump’s inauguration on January 20, 2025.
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Little is known about where the Bidens will go after leaving the White House, as the family has yet to publicly announce their plans. The former president he has two homes in Delaware — one in Wilmington and one in Rehoboth Beach — but has not made it clear whether either will serve as his home base after his presidency. However, if the rumors cited by Sim turn out to be true, the Bidens could be settling in the West Bank.
Fox News Digital’s Alec Schemmel contributed to this report.
