Bhubaneswar, Jan. 20 -- Washington: Donald Trump on Wednesday skipped his successor Joe Biden's inauguration and exited the White House for the last time as the US president to board a flight to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, which will be his permanent home after he failed to win his re-election bid.

Trump, 74, has already announced that he will not attend the inauguration of Biden as President and Kamala Harris as the Vice President, becoming the first president to skip his successor's inauguration since Andrew Johnson in 1869.

He left the White House on the Marine One presidential helicopter along with his wife Melania.

"It was an honour of a lifetime," he said before departing the White House.

Trump, a Republican, became the fi...