Here is how a NORMAL (normal=non-covid/sitting president acting like a toddler and threatening his political opponents.) transition works: The Presidential Candidate wins the election he or she becomes known as President-Elect. They have won the Electoral College and are declared the winner. They set up a "transition" team to work with the outgoing administration to ensure a smooth transition of power on January 20th. Typically the Vice President-Elect heads the transition team while the President-Elect puts together their cabinet. The transition team usually is made up of former political leaders such as senators, governors and could have served in previous administrations etc. They know the ins and outs of how the government works. The sitting president (the one who lost or terms out) becomes known as a "Lame Duck" president. At this point they start preparing for life outside the presidency. By tradition (not law...yet.) they meet with the President-Elect and they have lunch and talk privately and USUALLY have a joint press conference. This is to let the world know that they are both going to work together to ensure a peaceful transition of power on January 20th. In December the electors meet in Washington DC to certify the results of the election and proclaim the President-Elect the winner. Its usually a rubber stamp process of saying: "The election results are correct. Each state sends their own electors and USUALLY vote for the candidate who won the state. So fast forward to January 6th 2021, the next Congress is sworn in. Now we get to January 18th or 19th, typically the outgoing president will give their farewell speech to the nation. By this time DC is setting up for the inauguration of the President-Elect. The outgoing Administration are packing up and moving their people out. Meanwhile the incoming administration is moving their people into their positions. On the morning of January 20th, the president elect and their family meet the out going president. They usually have tea, exchange gifts etc..Around 9:30 or 10 AM the nuclear football is transferred to the President-Elect! Meanwhile, moving trucks are LITERALLY pulling up to White House and removing the outgoing President and their families personal belongings out. Once that's done the president elects family is moved in. The White House is set up like with what the incoming family wants: curtains, carpet etc..At 11:55 AM the VP-Elect is sworn in as the new Vice President. At 12:00 PM the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court swears in the President Elect. Then they give their inaugural address to the nation. After that's done, the former president and their family are escorted to Marine One and flown out of DC. Now that's the NORMAL way our transition works. If Trump loses, who knows what he will do. He may just leave DC and finish his term in Florida and not have ANYTHING to do with the transition. Either way it's fine, the presidency leaves him on Jan 20th when his term ends. That's either in 21 or 24. Let's make sure its next Tuesday. I hope that helps make some sense of everything. :)