The new offices of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris

With Joe Biden’s arrival in the White House, nothing is as it was before: in less than a week the new president signed 33 executive orders that wipe out some of the pillars of Trump’s ultra-conservative policy, has taken possession of all the official social accounts immediately demonstrating that even in this way it will completely change the way the US communicates with the world, at the same time took office in the Oval Office, making this office a symbol of power the best business card of the way it intends to change the country.

Biden moved within a few hours but, despite this, he did not simply replace colors, furnishings and some paintings: it completely changed the face of the presidential room thus also indicating the beginning of a new era.

First big change: now there is the picture of Benjamin Franklin, among the founding fathers of the country as well as a philosopher, in place of the one put on display by Trump of the seventh president Andrew Jackson, he in the nineteenth century signed a law that required the natives to move to the southern reserves. Second significant detail: he disappeared the bust of Winston Churchill (already put in the attic by Obama and then taken up by Trump) and, together with those of Abraham Lincoln (the president who abolished slavery) now those of the activists stand out Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks e Cesar Chavez, champion of the rights of Hispanic laborers. A clear reference to his proposal to offer the green card to all illegal laborers and to his inclusive policy in general. Among the new furnishing elements, then, a sculpture homage to the natives, and a single flag – the American one obviously – where Trump had previously exhibited military trophies.

Curiosity: among the relics of the new president, along with all the family photos, there is a moon rock brought to Earth in 1972 by the last Apollo mission. Also on the resolute desk (the desk made with the wood of the British Arctic ship Resolute), the pens are back (Trump signed with a black marker clearly visible to the cameras), ed the button with which the former president ordered Coca Cola has disappeared (his great passion). Clear signs of a radical change, Time has told them with its new cover:

TIME’s new cover: Day one https://t.co/VazxGDJzZf pic.twitter.com/R6jVrzXXZc

— TIME (@TIME) January 21, 2021

Also Kamala Harris has customized her studio: small touches, but that say a lot about the first female vice president of the United States. He showed it for the first time in a tweet telling of the oath of Avril Haines, director of National Intelligence.

It’s a sober study in which the vice president put in plain sight all family photos facing the visitor: there are photos of her and her mother, and then she and her husband Douglas Emhoff, the first “Second Gentleman” in history. In front of his desk, then, two cream-colored sofas and gods white and blue flowers pendant with the American flag: another detail he shared in a tweet about a meeting with Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director general, to discuss measures against the pandemic:

Today, I spoke by phone with @WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. We discussed how the United States will work as a constructive partner to strengthen and reform the WHO—which will be a vital step to controlling COVID-19. pic.twitter.com/53IswsWYPz

— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) January 22, 2021

Meanwhile even Trump is grappling with a brand new office: he is setting it up in Palm Beach, near the mega estate of Mar-a-Lago where he moved with Melania. He announced it in the first newsletter sent by the former president, explaining that he will need it to manage “correspondence, public statements, apparitions” because he “will always and forever be a champion of the American people.” In the gallery above the photos of the new offices of Kamala Harris and Joe Biden