US President Joe Biden has welcomed Donald Trump for a gathering on the White Home geared toward guaranteeing the graceful transition of energy from one chief to a different.
It’s the first time the president-elect has visited the White Home since he left the Oval Workplace after being defeated by Mr Biden within the 2020 election.
Mr Biden and Mr Trump had been seen exchanging pleasantries as they sat facet by facet in entrance of a roaring hearth within the Oval Workplace.
“Donald, congratulations,” Mr Biden mentioned, greeting Mr Trump with a handshake and including that he seemed “ahead to a clean transition.”
The president-elect thanked Mr Biden for the invitation and for a peaceable transition of energy saying it is going to be “as clean as it could possibly get”.
He added: “Politics is hard. And it is, in lots of circumstances, not a really good world. However it’s a good world as we speak and I respect it very a lot.”
The assembly follows the longstanding custom of outgoing presidents assembly their successors to debate a clean transition from one administration to the opposite.
Nonetheless, Republican Mr Trump failed to present the identical alternative to Mr Biden in 2020 as he refused to simply accept his defeat towards his Democratic rival.
Mr Trump, who beforehand gained the keys to the White Home when operating towards Hillary Clinton in 2016, shall be sworn in as president in January following his decisive election win towards vp Kamala Harris final week.
The final time Mr Trump and Mr Biden met in particular person was for the presidential debate in June, when the Democrat chief’s gaffes value him his candidacy. Ms Harris introduced she could be changing Mr Biden quickly after.
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Mr Trump celebrated his victory earlier within the day with Republicans within the Home of Representatives who’ve a superb
probability of sustaining management of the chamber as 5 November election outcomes trickle in.
“Is not it good to win? It is good to win. It is all the time good to win,” Mr Trump mentioned. “The Home did very properly.”
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