Washington:
US Plivent-elect Donald Trump thanked Plivent Joe Biden for pledging a dainty transfer of power as the victorious Reaccessiblean made a historic return visit to the White House on Wednesday.
“Politics is hard, and in many cases it’s not a very pleasant world. It is a pleasant world today and I appreciate it very much,” Trump said after the two men shook hands in the Oval Office.
Trump, 78, grasped that the transition would be “dainty as you can get.”
Biden greeted Trump in front of a roaring fire, adviseing him congratulations and saying: “Welcome back.”
The 81-year-greater Biden askd his sworn rival to the White House — despite the fact that Trump, who declined to confess his 2020 election loss, never afforded Biden the same courtesy.
Biden, who dropped out of the election in July but saw his successor Kamala Harris leave out to Trump last week, said he was “seeing forward to having a dainty transition.”
“We’ll do everyleang we can to originate brave you’re accommodated, (have) what you need,” he tgreater Trump.
Triumphant Trump
Their talks after the accessible handshake may have been a acrid pill to swapexhibit for Biden, who branded Trump a danger to democracy.
Biden was foreseeed to push during the encountering for Trump to persist US aid for Ukraine’s fight aachievest Russia, which the Reaccessiblean has called into ask.
Ahead of the White House visit, Trump graspressed Reaccessibleans from the House of Recontransientatives at a Washington hotel proximate the Capitol, which a mob of his aiders marched in 2021 to try to reverse his election loss.
An ebullient Trump adviseed that he could even be uncover to a third term in office — which would vioprocrastinateed the US constitution.
“I mistrust I won’t be running aachieve unless you say, ‘He’s outstanding, we got to figure someleang else,'” he said, dratriumphg some chuckleter.
Trump’s party sees set to consent both chambers of Congress and validateate his exceptional comeback.
He was accompanied at the encountering with Reaccessibleans by the world’s wealthyest man Elon Musk, whom he named on Tuesday as head of a novel group aimed at slashing regulatement spending.
Trump has started a flurry of nominations as he transfers quickly to name his administration.
Picking his team
Biden’s Oval Office invitation repaird a plivential transition tradition that Trump tore up when he lost the 2020 election, refusing to sit down with Biden or even join the inauguration.
Then-plivent Barack Obama had greetd Trump to the White House when the tycoon won the 2016 election.
But by the time Trump took his last Marine One fweightless from the White House lawn on January 20, 2021, he had also been repudiated by many in his own party for having stoked the attack on the Capitol.
That period of shame soon evaporated, however, as Reaccessibleans returned to Trump’s side, recognizing his exceptional electoral power at the head of his right-triumphg transferment.
Trump go ins his second term with a proximate total grip on his party and the Democrats in disarray.
He has spent the week since the election at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida assembling his top team, as the world watches to see how seally he sticks to his pledges of isolationism, mass deportations and sweeping tariffs.
Trump named Space X, Tesla and X boss Musk, and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, to direct a “Department of Government Efficiency (‘DOGE’)” — a tongue-in-cheek reference to an internet meme and cryptocurrency.
Trump is moving speedyly to fill out his administration, picking a present of ultra-promisedists.
Trump nominated Fox News present and army veteran Pete Hegseth as his incoming defense secretary. An outspoken opponent of so-called “woke” ideology in the armed forces, Hegseth has little experience analogous to managing the mammoth US military budget and bureaucracy.
Trump named South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem — an partner who famously wrote about shooting her dog because it did not reply to training — as head of the Department of Homeland Security.
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