Trump meets Biden at White House to begin transition of power

FRANCE 24

13 November 2024 at 11:36 am·2-min read

US President Joe Biden meets with US President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, on November 13, 2024.

US President-elect Donald Trump and President Joe Biden shook hands as they met in the Oval Office on Wednesday to begin what Trump pledged will be a “smooth” transition of power.

Biden and Trump had a "very cordial, very gracious and substantive" transition meeting in the Oval Office on Wednesday lasting nearly two hours, the White House said.

Biden welcomed Trump to the White House for a visit that is a traditional part of the peaceful handoff of power – a ritual Trump himself declined to participate in four years ago.

“Donald, congratulations,” Biden said, greeting Trump with a handshake and adding that he looked “forward to a smooth transition.”

“Thank you very much," Trump said. "Politics is tough. And it’s, in many cases, not a very nice world. But it is a nice world today and I appreciate it very much.”

Trump later told The New York Post that he and Biden discussed the war in Ukraine and Israel's ongoing war with Hamas in Gaza.

“I asked for his views and he gave them to me,” Trump told the paper. “Also, we talked very much about the Middle East, likewise. I wanted to know his views on where we are and what he thinks. And he gave them to me, he was very gracious.”

Back in Washington for the first time since his election victory, Trump told the GOP lawmakers, “It’s nice to win.”

The White House meeting between a president and president-elect is one Trump himself declined to participate in four years ago after he lost to Biden.

“We want this to go well," Jean-Pierre added. "We want this to be a process that gets the job done."

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