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After much anticipation, the United States President-elect, Donald Trump has finally returned to the White House meeting with the outgoing President Joe Biden.
Trump met with President Joe Biden at the White House on Wednesday.
He walked into the White House triumphantly for the first time in four years to meet Biden.
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Biden invited Trump for the traditional visit, a show of the coming Jan. 20 peaceful transfer of power in the American democracy between the current U.S. leader and the incoming chief executive.
But the Biden-Trump get-together is rife with political tension.
Biden, a Democrat who ran for reelection for some time, sought to defeat Trump, the Republican, before ending his campaign in July after faltering badly in a debate.
Biden quickly endorsed his vice president, Kamala Harris, to succeed him.
Kamala, however, failed to defeat Trump at the polls as the former president won by a wide margin.
When Biden defeated Trump in 2020, Trump offered no White House invitation to meet him ahead of the inauguration and then left Washington two hours before Biden’s swearing-in on the steps of the U.S. Capitol.
In other news, President-elect Donald Trump expressed gratitude to President Joe Biden for committing to a seamless transition of power, as the newly elected Republican made a symbolic and historic return to the White House on Wednesday.
“Politics is tough, and in many cases it’s not a very nice world. It is a nice world today and I appreciate it very much,” Trump said after the two men shook hands in the Oval Office.
Greeting Trump by a roaring fire, Biden offered his congratulations and said warmly, “Welcome back.”
Though Trump never offered Biden the same invitation following his refusal to concede in 2020, the 81-year-old Biden welcomed his adversary to the White House.
After stepping out of the election race in July and then watching his successor, Kamala Harris, lose to Trump last week, Biden expressed that he was “looking forward to a smooth transition.”
