After the US election
Biden and Trump will meet at the White House on Wednesday
What is otherwise standard for the transfer of power after a presidential election in the USA stands out this time: Joe Biden and Donald Trump will sit down in the Oval Office next week.
After Republican Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election, Democratic incumbent Joe Biden welcomed his former opponent to the White House on Wednesday. Biden’s spokeswoman, Karine Jean-Pierre, announced this. The meeting is scheduled for 11 a.m. local time (5 p.m. CET) in the Oval Office, the president’s office.
Biden (81) called Trump (78) shortly after the election, congratulated him on his victory and invited him to the White House. This is part of the usual way of dealing with a change of power in the USA. Trump, however, moved away from such conventions in 2020.
The Republican ran against Biden in the election and lost – but he has not admitted defeat to this day. At that time, Trump not only did not invite Biden to the White House, but also stayed away from his inauguration.
Wednesday’s meeting is one of the rare face-to-face encounters between Biden and Trump. The two last faced each other on stage at the end of June during a television debate during the election campaign. However, the debate was so disastrous for Biden that shortly afterwards he withdrew from the presidential race under pressure from his party and then supported his Vice President Kamala Harris as a candidate.
On September 11, Biden and Trump both attended a ceremony in New York commemorating the devastating terrorist attacks in the United States 23 years earlier. However, there was no major exchange there like in the TV debate or at the upcoming meeting in Washington.
Trump is scheduled to be sworn in for his second term as head of state on January 20th.
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Source: Stern
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