{"id":2421,"date":"2024-11-13T14:18:04","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T14:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/biden-is-about-to-have-the-meeting-hes-been-dreading-with-trump\/"},"modified":"2024-11-13T14:18:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T14:18:04","slug":"biden-is-about-to-have-the-meeting-hes-been-dreading-with-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/biden-is-about-to-have-the-meeting-hes-been-dreading-with-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden is about to have the meeting he\u2019s been dreading with Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nearly four years after he walked out of the White House in the aftermath of a violent insurrection, President-elect Donald Trump will re-enter the building on Wednesday to meet with President Joe Biden in the Oval Office.<\/p>\n

By inviting Trump, Biden is extending to his predecessor and successor a formal courtesy that Trump didn\u2019t give him four years ago. In many ways, he is hosting a rival who he\u2019d argued was a threat to American democracy to make the point that democracy itself hinges on elections where the losers accept the results.<\/p>\n

The meeting comes eight days after Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris and six days after Biden\u2019s Rose Garden speech, where he sought to reassure disappointed Democrats<\/u><\/a> that democracy would endure \u2014 even though the central political project that has defined the final chapter of his own decadeslong career, keeping Trump out of the White House, has failed.<\/p>\n

Harris is not expected to attend the meeting. Nor is Melania Trump, who declined an invitation from first lady Jill Biden, reportedly over lingering frustration over the FBI\u2019s August 2022 raid on Mar-a-Lago to recover classified documents.<\/p>\n

Biden\u2019s low approval ratings and the public\u2019s deep frustrations with the higher cost of living are the clearest signs for Trump\u2019s resounding victory. The twice impeached and criminally convicted 45th president won every battleground state and the popular vote for the first time in three tries.<\/p>\n

The symbolism of the meeting \u2014 two political foes shaking hands, sitting together in an office they both know well \u2014 offers both men a chance to showcase a graciousness and a semblance of unity following a divisive election. That may supercede substantive policy discussions, although Biden does plan to raise some issues with the goal of convincing Trump to keep specific policies in place.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre offered few details about the meeting, telling reporters that it was mainly about \u201cimportance of keeping norms, the importance of having a transition that is going to be efficient. That is what the American people deserve. And that\u2019s the message.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nearly four years after he walked out of the White House in the aftermath of a violent insurrection, President-elect Donald Trump will re-enter the building on Wednesday to meet with President Joe Biden in the Oval Office. By inviting Trump, Biden is extending to his predecessor and successor a formal courtesy that Trump didn\u2019t give […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}