Trump meets Biden at White House in US presidential transition meeting
Al JazeeraMeeting between the two rivals in Washington is part of the tranditional US handover process and follows 2020 snub. The two men greeted each other with a handshake in front of the cameras, as Biden told Trump he looked forward to a “peaceful transition”. “It is a nice world today and I appreciate very much a transition that’s so smooth, it will be as smooth as it can get.” Speaking after the meeting, which comes almost two months ahead of the president-elect’s inauguration on January 20, Trump said that Biden had talked about Ukraine and the Middle East. “It would be as if you would take the CEO of a major corporation with thousands and thousands of employees and remove the CEO on one day at noon, in this case, January, the 20th of the upcoming year,” she said, referring to inauguration day, “and then take out all of the top figures, including the board of the business.” “In order for it to be smooth, you need to have cooperation on both sides,” she said, added that beyond Trump’s snub of Biden in 2020, his entry into the White House in 2016 was also notoriously chaotic, with members of his team often failing to meet with members of then-outgoing President Barack Obama’s administration. “These two men don’t like each other,” she said, “even if they may be smiling in front of the cameras.” Trump and Biden spent much of the presidential campaign talking ill about each other and the threat to democracy they purportedly represented, she noted.