President Biden and President-elect Trump will meet within the Oval Workplace on Wednesday, the White Home introduced on Saturday.
The assembly shall be held at 11 a.m. native time, based on the assertion from Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.
Mr. Biden prolonged the invitation for the assembly.
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. Nonetheless, Mr. Trump didn’t host Mr. Biden for a sit-down after the 2020 election, when Mr. Trump misplaced his reelection bid.
Mr. Trump, who served because the forty fifth president of the U.S., will develop into the second president to serve two non-consecutive phrases when he additionally turns into the nation’s forty seventh president. The opposite was Grover Cleveland, who was each the twenty second and twenty fourth president.
Mr. Trump gained the presidential election on Tuesday with at the very least 301 electoral faculty votes, surpassing the edge of 270 over Vice President Kamala Harris.
In a speech Thursday, Mr. Biden mentioned he had assured Mr. Trump “that I’d direct my total administration to work together with his staff to make sure a peaceable and orderly transition. That is what the American folks deserve.”
