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DONALD TRUMP HAS made his return to the White House in a handover meeting with US president Joe Biden.
Trump said that the transition would be “smooth as you can get, as the victorious Republican made his first visit since departing under a torrent of scandal nearly four years ago.
The president-elect also thanked Biden for pledging a smooth transfer of power over the coming weeks.
“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 after the two men shook hands in the Oval Office, “Politics is tough, and in many cases it’s not a very nice world. It is a nice world today and I appreciate it very much.”
Biden invited his sworn rival to meet in the Oval Office for today’s meeting. It’s a change to when in 2020, Trump refused to admit his election loss to Biden and never held a similar handover meeting with the Democrat.
Trump’s meeting with Biden comes as he moves swiftly to name his administration, including the world’s richest man Elon Musk as head of a new group aimed at slashing government spending.
With reporting by PA and AFP
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Looks like an old folks home
@Jb Walshe: lol.. looks like a funeral home to me .. that big bunch of roses looks like its sitting on a coffin.. one can apply the death of Democracy or the death of Democrats rethoric as their political persuasion takes them !
President Biden should have given him the same greeting that the loser Trump gave him 4 yrs ago.
@Mary.E.: Biden isn’t a malignant narcissist, though.
@Mary.E.: Democrats down 20 million votes from 2020, that seems extreme!! & won every state where voter ID not required!!
@Setanta O’Toole: no but the voters run him off and for good reason, trump will sort it all out including the woke left wingers.
@Ned: the economy is booming Ned, and they are almost at full employment, inflation is also steadily decreasing. The reality is like last time, there isn’t too much to ‘sort out’. He’ll take credit for it like he did the last time, and his sheep will believe him. He’ll never sort out the ‘woke left wingers’. If he did, he’d have nothing for gullible sorts like yourself to believe is responsible for all their problems.
Trump acts like such a puppy when he’s feeling that inferiority complex.
Wonderful for trump to assist to pack his bags
Biden calls Trump “Hitler” and every other name under the sun and then just hands him over power. You couldn’t make this nonsense up! The person that we are told is a “threat to democracy” is given the baton of power by the very person why believes that he poses this threat. It just shows how much dangerous rhetorical gibberish that the Democrats were trying to roll with over the course of this campaign.
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