Before he comes back for good on Inauguration Day, Donald Trump will return to the White House briefly at the invitation of President Joe Biden. That may make for an awkward encounter, especially given that, after Biden defeated Trump in 2020, the then-president offered no such White House invitation.
FILE - President Barack Obama , right, meets with President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Nov. 10, 2016. FILE - President George H.W. Bush gestures toward President-elect Bill Clinton at the White House, Nov. 18, 1992, in Washington. FILE - President Bill Clinton , right, and President-elect George W. Bush pose for photographers as they head to the Oval Office at the White House Dec. 19, 2000.
This time, Biden has vowed to ensure a smooth transition and emphasized the importance of working with Trump, who is both his presidential predecessor and successor, to bring the country together. Biden’s White House invitation to Trump includes his wife, the former and now incoming first lady, Melania Trump.
“I’m pleased to see that the Democrats have chosen to take the high road and returned to the traditions that really do make America great,” Bendat said.days after the 2016 election. White House chief of staff Denis McDonough also showed Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner around the West Wing. “I very much look forward to dealing with the president in the future, including counsel,” Trump said. Obama White House press secretary Josh Earnest described the meeting as “at least a little less awkward than some might have expected,” and he noted that the two “did not relitigate their differences in the Oval Office.”
One recalled that the only question Trump counterparts asked at the time was not about the coming workload or responsibilities, but how best to find an apartment in Washington.The official transition process does not mandate that presidents invite their successors to face-to-face meetings, though it can feel that way.There’s no record of George Washington scheduling a formal meeting with the nation’s second president, John Adams, before leaving the then-capital city of New York.
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