“It’s so eerily quiet here”

Joe Biden’s swearing-in took place under unprecedented security. The Capitol and the White House were largely cordoned off, the streets of Washington deserted.

A little dejected, Matthew and his two friends sit outside the Penn Quarter pub on the corner of Indiana Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue. The three students traveled from New York to celebrate Joe Biden’s inauguration as 46th President of the United States. The young men, armed with two Black Lives Matter flags, make no secret of the fact that they could hardly wait for the day on which Donald Trump will leave the White House for the last time. “A great moment for our country,” says Matthew. “But I did not expect that everything would be completely extinct here. It is so eerily quiet. “

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