Trump meets Biden : Biden Congratulates President-Elect Trump At White House

The US president and president-elect shook hands in front of a roaring fire in the Oval Office as they pledged a smooth transition — a stark contrast to Trump’s refusal to recognize his 2020 defeat.

Washington: In a gesture of politeness for a resentful rival who did not offer him the same consideration four years prior, Joe Biden welcomed Donald Trump back to the White House on Wednesday.

In sharp contrast to Trump’s refusal to acknowledge his 2020 loss, the US president and president-elect clasped hands in front of a roaring fire in the Oval Office and promised a seamless transition.

“Welcome back,” Biden, 81, said as he congratulated Trump, 78, and gave a few introductory remarks to the guy he has called a threat to democracy on numerous occasions.

Biden, who dropped out of the election in July but saw his successor Kamala Harris lose to Trump last week, said he was “looking forward to having a smooth transition” and pledged to do “everything we can to make sure you’re accommodated.”

As the two presidents with a combined age of 159 years shook hands, Biden appeared to look down while Trump leaned forward and looked him in the eyes. Trump meets Biden

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Trump attempted to make a polite return to the White House after inciting a mob that invaded the US Capitol in 2021 and running a cruel and polarizing campaign this year.

“Politics is difficult, and the world isn’t always pleasant. “I am really grateful for the wonderful world we live in today,” Trump remarked.

Trump went on to say that the handover would be “smooth as you can get”—even though his transition team has yet to execute any important legal documents before his January 20 inauguration as president.

🚨 #BREAKING: President Trump is officially BACK in the Oval Office, meeting with Joe Biden

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Donald Trump opposes efforts to fight climate change, but the Guardian’s Fiona Harvey reports that Barbados’s prime minister Mia Mottley wants to sit down with him to see if there may be proposals he would be willing to support to counter the crisis. Trump meets Biden

Here’s more: Mia Mottley, the climate-championing prime minister of Barbados, has invited Donald Trump to a face-to-face meeting where she would seek “common ground” and persuade him that climate action was in his own interests. “Let us find a common purpose in saving the planet and saving livelihoods,” she told the Guardian at the UN’s Cop29 climate summit in Azerbaijan. “We are human beings and we have the capacity to meet face-to-face, in spite of our differences. Trump meets Biden

We want humanity to survive. And the evidence [of the climate crisis] we are seeing almost weekly now.”

Only by personal meetings among world leaders can the massive changes needed on climate action be achieved, she believes. “President Trump has been very clear about the importance of that kind of face-to-face conversation in the things that he believes that he can solve as well.” Trump meets Biden

Mottley, the prime minister who took Barbados out of the Commonwealth realm to be a republic, has been an electrifying presence at recent UN climate summits since she took to the stage at Cop26 in Glasgow in 2021 with an impassioned speech demanding world leaders “try harder” to avoid passing a death sentence on her country.

Since then, she has gained a global reputation as a formidable champion of the developing countries most affected by climate breakdown. Trump meets Biden

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