I would like to suggest to avoid any confusion or ambiguity over whatever course of events happen in the next few hours, days, weeks, months, years, that we consistently referring to Donald J. Trump asGEOTUS
>is ALL we need to know. Enjoy the 'kabuki theater" portion of The Show, anons!!
It's a non-story. "Normally" the outgoing President attends the inauguration and the nuclear codes change, and the football changes hands, at noon. Trump is still President until noon and will not be at the inauguration. It would be a dereliction of duty if he didn't keep the football until noon
The codes Trump has with him become invalid at 12:01 today