President Biden will host President-elect Donald J. Trump at the White House on Wednesday, extending a presidential tradition to his onetime rival that Mr. Trump did not offer four years ago after Mr. Biden defeated him.
In a brief statement, Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, said that Mr. Biden had invited Mr. Trump to join him in the Oval Office, but she did not provide any additional details about the meeting.
The visual of Mr. Biden and Mr. Trump together in the White House is likely to be as striking as the one of former President Barack Obama and Mr. Trump in 2016, after Mr. Trump defeated Hillary Clinton to secure the presidency for the first time.
After that meeting, Mr. Obama told reporters that he had wished Mr. Trump well.
“Most of all, I want to emphasize to you, Mr. President-elect, that we now are going to want to do everything we can to help you succeed — because if you succeed, then the country succeeds,” Mr. Obama said.
When Mr. Biden defeated Mr. Trump after a bitterly divisive contest in 2020, Mr. Trump did not concede his loss, and the two men did not meet in the White House. At that time, the country was still in the middle of the Covid pandemic.
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