Biden to meet with President-elect Trump at White House

US President Joe Biden walks out of the Oval Office to speak about the results of the 2024 election in the Rose Garden on November 7, 2024 in Washington, DC.

US President Joe Biden will receive President-elect Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday, the White House said in a statement on Saturday. Biden, who called Trump on Wednesday to congratulate him after his election win, has pledged an orderly transfer of power to his White House successor.

Joe Biden will meet with President-elect Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday after the US leader pledged an orderly transfer of power back to the Republican he beat in elections just four years ago.

Trump -- who never conceded his 2020 loss -- sealed a historic comeback to the presidency in the November 5 vote, cementing what is set to be more than a decade of US politics overshadowed by his hardline right-wing stance.

Biden will join the tiny club of US presidents to return power to their White House predecessor -- with a previous instance coming when president Benjamin Harrison handed back to Grover Cleveland in the 19th century.

The Democrat will meet Trump at the Oval Office at 11:00 am (1600 GMT), the White House said Saturday, with the clock ticking down to the ex-president's return to power in January.

(AFP)


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