{"id":25431,"date":"2024-11-14T04:33:55","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T04:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=25431"},"modified":"2024-11-14T09:38:32","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T09:38:32","slug":"smooth-transfer-of-power-biden-welcomes-trump-to-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/11\/smooth-transfer-of-power-biden-welcomes-trump-to-the-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Smooth transfer of power&#8217;: Biden welcomes Trump to the White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; US President-elect Donald Trump and President Joe Biden, longtime political rivals, have met for the first time since Trump won back the White House last week and both men promised a smooth transfer of power in January.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"mx-auto mb-6 px-4 md:px-0 text-lg font-normal leading-8 text-gray-800\">\n<p class=\"Paragraph_wrapper__6w7GG\">The two leaders sat side by side before a roaring fire in the Oval Office, a peaceful scene that belied tensions between them, reported AP.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mx-auto mb-6 px-4 md:px-0 text-lg font-normal leading-8 text-gray-800\">\n<p class=\"Paragraph_wrapper__6w7GG\">Biden defeated Trump in the 2020 election but dropped out of the 2024 race in July after a disastrous debate with the Republican Trump.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mx-auto mb-6 px-4 md:px-0 text-lg font-normal leading-8 text-gray-800\">\n<p class=\"Paragraph_wrapper__6w7GG\">He handed his candidacy to Vice President Kamala Harris, who lost.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mx-auto mb-6 px-4 md:px-0 text-lg font-normal leading-8 text-gray-800\">\n<p class=\"Paragraph_wrapper__6w7GG\">&#8220;We&#8217;re looking forward to having, like we said, a smooth transition, do everything we can to make sure you&#8217;re accommodated, what you need,&#8221; Biden said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Welcome, welcome back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mx-auto mb-6 md:max-w-[324px] lg:max-w-[752px]\">\n<div class=\"mt-6 lg:block md:hidden hidden space-y-2 bg-gray-100 py-2\">&#8220;Politics is tough, and it&#8217;s many cases not a very nice world, but it is a nice world today and I appreciate very much a transition that&#8217;s so smooth it&#8217;ll be as smooth as it can get and I very much appreciate that, Joe,&#8221; said Trump, who takes over on January 20.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mx-auto mb-6 px-4 md:px-0 text-lg font-normal leading-8 text-gray-800\">\n<p class=\"Paragraph_wrapper__6w7GG\">It was a sharp contrast to the criticism the two men have hurled at each other for years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mx-auto mb-6 px-4 md:px-0 text-lg font-normal leading-8 text-gray-800\">\n<p class=\"Paragraph_wrapper__6w7GG\">Their respective teams hold vastly different positions on policies from climate change to Russia to trade.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mx-auto mb-6 px-4 md:px-0 text-lg font-normal leading-8 text-gray-800\">\n<p class=\"Paragraph_wrapper__6w7GG\">Biden, 81, has portrayed Trump as a threat to democracy while Trump, 78, has portrayed Biden as incompetent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mx-auto mb-6 px-4 md:px-0 text-lg font-normal leading-8 text-gray-800\">\n<p class=\"Paragraph_wrapper__6w7GG\">Trump made claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 election even though his own attorney general, recounts and investigations found no evidence of that.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mx-auto mb-6 md:max-w-[324px] lg:max-w-[752px]\">\n<div id=\"story4-container\" class=\"mt-6 lg:block md:hidden hidden space-y-2 bg-gray-100 py-2\">\n<div class=\"flex items-center justify-center lg:min-h-[250px]\">\n<div class=\"relative overflow-hidden\">\n<div id=\"story4\" data-fuse=\"incontent-mrec-2\" data-targeting-pos=\"4\" data-fuse-code=\"fuse-slot-ad-incontent-mrec-2-1\" data-fuse-zone-instance=\"zone-instance-ad-incontent-mrec-2-1\" data-fuse-slot=\"fuse-slot-ad-incontent-mrec-2-1\" data-gpid=\"\/21666581298\/CanberraTimes\/news\/latestnews#single-1\" data-fuse-processed-at=\"1677\">\n<div id=\"fuse-slot-ad-incontent-mrec-2-1\" class=\"fuse-slot\" data-google-query-id=\"CJ_p9df-2okDFeSKrAIdGIs3Vg\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/21666581298\/CanberraTimes\/news\/latestnews_5__container__\">Trump celebrated his victory earlier in the day with Republicans in the House of Representatives who have a good chance of maintaining control of the chamber as November 5 election results trickle in.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mx-auto mb-6 px-4 md:px-0 text-lg font-normal leading-8 text-gray-800\">\n<p class=\"Paragraph_wrapper__6w7GG\">&#8220;Isn&#8217;t it nice to win? It&#8217;s nice to win. It&#8217;s always nice to win,&#8221; Trump said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mx-auto mb-6 px-4 md:px-0 text-lg font-normal leading-8 text-gray-800\">\n<p class=\"Paragraph_wrapper__6w7GG\">&#8220;The House did very well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mx-auto mb-6 px-4 md:px-0 text-lg font-normal leading-8 text-gray-800\">\n<p class=\"Paragraph_wrapper__6w7GG\">Outside the White House gates, signs of the impending power transfer were evident with construction already under way for the stands for VIP guests to sit during the parade that will take place after Trump is inaugurated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h6 class=\"mx-auto mb-6 px-4 md:px-0 text-lg font-normal leading-8 text-gray-800\"><em><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President-elect Donald Trump and President Joe Biden, longtime political rivals, have met for the first time since Trump won back the White House last week and both men promised a smooth transfer of power in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":25432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,194,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-world","category-headline"],"views":43,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25431"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25448,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25431\/revisions\/25448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}