As Biden closes out more than 50 years of public service, including 36 years as a senator, eight as vice president, and four as president, the last year in office proved fateful in some of his longest-held friendships. Here are four friends Biden reportedly lost last year:

Joe Biden is about to leave office with a series of missteps that have tainted his legacy as president, experts told Newsweek. Newsweek has contacted the White House for comment via email. Biden entered office in January 2021 with a promise to provide a sharp contrast what some perceived as a chaotic Donald Trump administration.

Under the terms laid out in the US Constitution, the President takes office at exactly midday on January 20 (unless January 20 falls on a Sunday, which is not the case this year). This will take place at 6am on Tuesday,

President-elect Donald Trump will take a victory lap on Sunday with a campaign-style rally in Washington, D.C., a day before he is sworn in for a second term four years after losing the White House to Joe Biden.

During the family’s first stint in the White House, Trump appointed two of his sons to lead The Trump Organization, his conglomerate company. Elsewhere in the family, the president-elect asked his daughter Ivanka and her husband,