Sri Lanka, Jan. 14 -- Vanity working on a weak head produces every sort of mischief

- Jane Austen in Emma

Despite his pompous arrogance and vitriolic rhetoric since losing the November 3 election, US President Donald J. Trump, has had to finally accede to the sovereign will of the people -- a vital cog in a vibrant democratic system of governance.

With the Electoral College votes having been formally counted on January 6, at a joint session of the US Congress comprising members of the House of Representatives and the Senate, amid the violence unleashed on Capitol Hill by pro-Trump mobs; the countdown has begun for the January 20 swearing-in of Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. as the 46th President of the United States of America and Kamala Dev...