WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will host President-elect Donald Trump for a standard postelection assembly within the Oval Office on Wednesday, the White House mentioned Saturday.
Such a gathering is customary between the outgoing president and the incoming president, and is supposed partly to mark the beginning of a peaceable switch of energy beneath America’s democracy.
But Trump, a Republican, didn’t host Biden, a Democrat, for a sit-down after the 2020 election, when Trump misplaced his reelection bid.
Trump sought the presidency 4 years later, and this week he defeated Vice President Kamala Harris, a Democrat. Trump is the primary former president to return to energy since Grover Cleveland regained the White House within the 1892 election.
The White House mentioned Biden referred to as Trump this previous Wednesday to congratulate him and invite him to fulfill within the Oval Office.
In a speech Thursday, Biden mentioned he had assured Trump “that I’d direct my total administration to work together with his crew to make sure a peaceable and orderly transition. That’s what the American individuals deserve.”
Their upcoming assembly is about for 11 a.m.