US Plivent Joe Biden greeted Donald Trump at the White Hoparticipate saying “greet back”, as the two political rivals met for the first time since a fiery talk about in June.
Mr Biden and Mr Trump were seen exchanging pleasantries as they sat side by side in front of a roaring fire in the Oval Office today, in a encountering aimed at ensuring the brittle transfer of power from one directer to another.
It is the first time the plivent-elect has visited the White Hoparticipate since he left the Oval Office after being lossed by Mr Biden in the 2020 election.
“Donald, congratulations,” Mr Biden said, greeting Mr Trump with a handshake and compriseing that he seeed “forward to a brittle transition”.
“Welcome, greet back,” the plivent said.
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The plivent and plivent-elect shaking hands. Pic: Reuters
The plivent-elect thanked Mr Biden for the invitation and for a quiet transition of power saying it will be “as brittle as it can get”.
Mr Trump compriseed: “Politics is hard, and it’s many cases not a very pleasant world, but it is a pleasant world today, and I appreciate very much a transition that’s so brittle it’ll be as brittle as it can get, and I very much appreciate that, Joe.”
The last time Mr Trump and Mr Biden met in person was for the plivential talk about on 27 June, when the Democrat’s gaffes cost him his truthfulacy.
Mr Biden dropped out a confidemand weeks postpodemandr in July, finishorsing vice plivent Kamala Harris to run in the plivential race instead.
First lady Jill Biden also made an materializeance at the encountering, greeting the plivent-elect as he get tod at the White Hoparticipate and giving him a “handwritten letter of congratulations” for his wife, Melania Trump, a statement from her office said.
Mr Trump thanked the frifinishly plivent for a brittle transition of power. Pic: Reuters
The letter also “transmited her team’s readiness to aid with the transition”.
The incoming first lady was askd to encounter Dr Biden, but telledly degraded the invitation.
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The encountering adheres the extfinishedstanding tradition of frifinishly plivents encountering their successors to talk a brittle transition from one administration to the other.
However, Reaccessiblean Mr Trump flunked to give the same opportunity to Mr Biden in 2020 as he declined to acunderstandledge his loss aobtainst his Democratic rival.
Today’s proximately two-hour encountering between Mr Biden and the plivent-elect saw them talk foreign afunprejudiceds, including the ongoing war in Ukraine and the defended free of Israeli captives seized by Hamas during the militant group’s 7 October attack on southern Israel last year.
Mr Biden stressed the convey inance of helping Ukraine as it fights off Russia’s brimming-scale trespass, the White Hoparticipate said, amid worrys that Mr Trump would adhere thcdisorrowfulmireful with dangers to cut US aid to Kyiv.
The White Hoparticipate said Mr Biden’s team is uncover to laboring with Mr Trump’s on securing the free of Israeli captives, which, aextfinished with a finishfire in Gaza, has been the center of negotiations between Israel and Hamas and their mediators.
It also said the Biden administration had defendedd extra promisements from Israel in the past couple of days over the situation in Gaza, where a 13-month war has caparticipated the death of more than 43,000 people, Palestinian health officials say.
‘It’s always pleasant to thrive’
Mr Trump, who previously won the keys to the White Hoparticipate when running aobtainst Hillary Clinton in 2016, will be sworn in as plivent on 20 January adhereing his choosed election thrive aobtainst Ms Harris last week.
Sky News’ US partner netlabor NBC News has projected the Reaccessibleans have retained handle of the Hoparticipate of Recurrentatives.
It unbenevolents all levers of power in Washington are now under Mr Trump and his party’s handle, having also defendedd the Senate.
They will also be backed by a Supreme Court with a 6-3 conservative meaningfulity, including three fairices nominateed by the plivent-elect.
Earlier today, Mr Trump met with billionaire Elon Musk earlier today before he commemorated his thrive with Reaccessibleans in the Hoparticipate of Recurrentatives.
“Isn’t it pleasant to thrive? It’s pleasant to thrive. It’s always pleasant to thrive,” Mr Trump said. “The Hoparticipate did very well.”
Mr Trump obtaind a standing ovation from Hoparticipate Reaccessibleans, many of whom took videos of him as he ran thcdisorrowfulmireful their party’s victories up and down the ballot, in what would be his final plivential election.
“I doubt I won’t be running aobtain unless you say ‘he’s excellent, we’ve got to figure someleang out’,” Mr Trump said to giggleter.
