Biden returns to California vacation spot after leaving office

Just implicit an hr aft President Donald Trump took the oath of office, erstwhile President Joe Biden and erstwhile First Lady Jill Biden departed D.C. successful a helicopter. Nighthawk 46 – known arsenic Marine One erstwhile the existent president is aboard – took them to Joint Base Andrews wherever the outgoing president addressed a assemblage of supporters.

"It has been the grant of my beingness to service arsenic your president," Biden said to the cheering assemblage earlier telling them, "I emotion you all."

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Biden and the erstwhile archetypal woman committee Special Air Mission 46 astatine Joint Base Andrews pursuing inauguration ceremonies connected Jan. 20, 2025. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

After wrapping up his abbreviated remarks, the erstwhile president and his woman jetted disconnected to the Santa Ynez Valley successful California for immoderate idiosyncratic time.

While immoderate went to Santa Barbara Airport successful hopes of seeing Biden’s level land, however, a "no-fly" announcement successful the airspace astir Vandenberg indicated that the erstwhile president would onshore there, section outlet KEYT reported.

"He and Jill visited past summertime truthful this is his 2nd sojourn successful little than a year," Shelby Sim, President/CEO of Visit the Santa Ynez Valley, told People magazine. Sim besides told the outlet that there’s a "rumor" that the erstwhile president is looking to bargain a location successful the area, but insisted that this sojourn "is purely for R&R."

Biden and the erstwhile archetypal woman locomotion to Air Force One during a farewell ceremonial astatine Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, connected Jan. 20, 2025, pursuing Trump's inauguration. 

The Bidens besides traveled to the Santa Ynez Valley aft the erstwhile president delivered his code astatine the Democratic National Convention conscionable weeks aft dropping retired of the 2024 election.  They reportedly stayed with a "friend," billionaire donor joe Kiani, the New York Post reported astatine the time.

Kiani has fixed Biden's ace PAC, instauration and inaugural committee astir $3 million, according to House Republicans who person taken contented with the relationship. Meanwhile, successful September 2021, Kiani won an assignment from Biden to beryllium connected his Council of Advisors connected Science and Technology, which advises the enforcement subdivision connected argumentation matters involving Kiani’s aesculapian tech business, Masimo. Since Biden took bureau successful January 2021, Masimo has received astir $3 cardinal successful national contracts, according to Republicans.

During their past sojourn to the country aft the then-president dropped retired of the contention successful August, the Bidens reportedly stayed astatine Kiani Preserve, an 8,000-acre property owned by the billionaire donor of the aforesaid name.

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Biden and the erstwhile archetypal woman depart committee the chopper to instrumentality them from the East Front of the United States Capitol successful Washington, D.C., aft Trump's swearing-in connected Jan. 20, 2025.

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Little is known astir wherever the Bidens volition spell aft leaving the White House, arsenic the household has yet to marque plans public. The former president has 2 homes successful Delaware — 1 successful Wilmington and 1 successful Rehoboth Beach — but helium has not made it wide if either volition service arsenic his location basal post-presidency. However, if the rumor referenced by Sim turns retired to beryllium true, the Bidens could settee connected the West Coast.

Fox News Digital's Alec Schemmel contributed to this report.