Roger Cohen, columnist for the "New York Times", estimates Wednesday on Europe 1 that Joe Biden, who will become in the day the 46th president of the United States, will have great difficulty in repairing the fractures born in the country after four years of a more than controversial Trump presidency.

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On Wednesday, Joe Biden will become the 46th President of the United States at the end of an inauguration ceremony that will be unlike any that preceded it.

Because rarely have security threats been so numerous, a few days after the invasion of the Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump.

"The fact that there is a transition with barbed wire everywhere, with soldiers everywhere, it shows how President Trump, who will be out in a few hours, has fractured the country", analysis for Europe 1 Roger Cohen, columnist for the New York Times.

And the journalist warns: for Joe Biden, "it will be extremely hard" to erase these divisions.

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All the more difficult as the new American president takes office while the coronavirus epidemic is still very virulent in the country.

Joe Biden also paid tribute to the 400,000 dead from the Covid on Tuesday evening.

"As in France, it is the poorest people in general who suffer the most. And that divides even more an America where inequality has become ever more extreme," recalls Roger Cohen.

And then there is the shadow of Donald Trump, who will continue to hover over the United States.

"Mr. Trump will settle in Mar-a-Lago, but he will not completely disappear from the political scene," announces the columnist.

"There are 74 million people who voted for him. So President Biden's task is absolutely huge."

Trump, "a kind of presidency in exile in Mar-a-Lago"

That said, the fact that more and more Republican executives, like the boss of senators Mitch McConnell, are letting go of Donald Trump, encourages a certain optimism.

"The fact that even the leader of the Republicans in the Senate says that it is Mr. Trump who caused this invasion of the Capitol by this crowd, it is something extraordinary", welcomes Roger Cohen.

"And it shows that the Republican Party, ultimately, is separating, at least in a way, from President Trump."

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But one thing is certain, reconciliation will not come from Donald Trump himself.

"He does not even have the politeness to be present for this inauguration ceremony", laments the columnist of the New York Times.

"He will exercise a kind of presidency in exile in Mar-a-Lago, because these millions of people who have supported him do not intend to let go overnight. But I hope that as a politician, he will no longer be able to have of political influence in the United States, because the damage this man has done with his fierce selfishness is enormous. "