About four years after leaving office, Donald Trump returns to the White House today, Wednesday, to meet, as president-elect, with Joe Biden.
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This is the traditional first meeting between the president who will take over on January 20 and the one who is leaving.
Then the two sides’ working groups will coordinate the dozens of issues, legal and otherwise, that arise from the transition of power from one to the other.
Biden has pledged a “peaceful and coordinated” transfer of power, despite the expectation of reversals in his policies.
Donald Trump is making a strong return to the spotlight, poised to reshape the US political landscape. Starting with the White House meeting, Trump appears determined to bring changes to the basic structures of American governance, as evidenced by his choices for the central positions in the new administration.
It is Trump’s first appearance in the White House since his defeat in the 2020 election when he left without handing over power to Joe Biden who had then won the election.
For Trump, today’s meeting is a kind of political “revenge” as his four-year removal from the White House concludes with a return to the top and a planned possible visit to Capitol Hill, where Republicans now retain control of the Senate and are also claiming a majority in the House of Representatives.
With the Supreme Court bolstered by three appointments of conservative justices, Trump will have increased leeway in his second term, determining the future of the country in key areas for the American political scene.
