President , Joe Biden , and President-elect , Donald Trump , will be in the same room for the first time since their , debate , this summer, a conference that ended Biden’s political career.
Despite being eight years since the last leader and president-elect meet, after Trump did not invite Biden to the White House in 2020 as he disputed the benefits of their vote before the , Jan. 6 , assault on the , Capitol, the Biden-Trump sit-down is expected to be more metaphorical than substantial.
Biden’s extending of the kindness to Trump after winning the Electoral College and the popular vote confirms his change and his desire to change.
According to Max Stier, the Partnership’s founding president and CEO and its Center for National Changeover,” It is quite significant because it symbolizes a primary power of our country,” Stier said in a statement to the Washington Examiner. We all need to operate up, according to the truth. We have a new flight aircraft, which is metaphor for me. We are all aboard that aircraft, and we all need to rely on the pilot’s ability to prevent a fall.
Stier said those meetings can be conducted through “other channels and several activities,” despite the fact that national security is a top priority during this transition due to the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East.
” This is really about setting the right tone for the country”, he added. The people needs to observe our rulers adamant about our nation’s long-term health.
Democratic strategist Doug Heye agreed, reiterating discussions between a leader and president-elect were “normal, par for the course” sit-downs” for talkative leaders until 2020″.
” There’s no reason to think it wo n’t be this time”, Heye told the Washington Examiner.
Wednesday’s meet, initiated by Biden to ease the transition between his and Trump’s presidency, is poised to become personally difficult for Biden after describing Trump as a” danger to politics” and, while recently as last month, a fascist.
But it is because Biden believes in “norms”, “institutions”, and “order” that his meeting with Trump is important, according to White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.
” The American people deserve this, they deserve a peaceful transfer of power”, Jean-Pierre told reporters on Tuesday. ” ] White House ] chief of staff Jeff , Zients has been pretty, pretty open and available to the Trump transition team and will continue to do so. We want this to go well. We want the process to succeed in every way possible. And so it’s certainly, we’re going to do anything that we can”.
Zients , has been spearheading the White House Transition Coordinating Committee and has been working with his Trump counterparts, former Trump Small Business Administration Administrator Linda McMahon and Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick, in addition to Vice President-elect J. D. Vance, Donald Trump Jr., and Eric Trump.
Although first lady Jill Biden and former first lady Melania Trump have resumed their meetings, they have not. Jill Biden‘s invitation for tea was declined by Melania Trump.
The first lady’s spokeswoman told the Washington Examiner,” The Bidens extended congratulations and a joint invitation to the Trumps to meet at the White House.”  ,
Melania Trump’s spokeswoman did not respond to the Washington Examiner‘s request for comment.
From the Cabinet to White House communications aides, meetings with predecessors” should be the norm,” according to Stier.
No one knows the job better than the person who had it before you, he said, in fact. ” It does n’t mean you have to agree with all the choices that they make, but you want to understand, and to understand, you should be talking to whoever your predecessor was”.
Donald Trump’s transition made decisions with surprising acquiescence following his resounding victory against vice president Kamala Harris last week. For instance, Donald Trump appointed Susie Wiles as his White House chief of staff on Thursday.
On Tuesday, Donald Trump reportedly sent rumors that he would nominate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL ) to be secretary of state to the Senate along with his nomination for former director of national intelligence John Ratcliffe to be his CIA director. By Tuesday evening, he named South Dakota Gov. Pete Hegseth, a veteran of the Army, and Kristin Noem, his nominee for secretary of defense, are also on Fox News.
Stier urged Donald Trump’s transition to sign the federal government memorandas so that aides could “get access to agencies and crucial information in terms of personnel” while praising Donald Trump’s “quick taping” as” a very good sign.”
He said,” The question I have is whether or not the process has been the result of consistent and substantial vetting.” ” President-elect Trump in 2016 and it appears today does a lot of freelance work and receives input from places where it is not necessarily that would provide the best insight into capability or character.”
Elon Musk, a billionaire, has reportedly gotten in touch with Donald Trump, even joining a call between him and Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine. In its conflict with Russia, Ukraine rely heavily on Musk’s Starlink communications system. Donald Trump named Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy , to new jobs in his administration heading up a” Department of Government Efficiency”.
Musk advised Donald Trump to schedule recess appointments for this winter this weekend on his social media platform X, which means he would n’t need senators ‘ support for any contentious picks.
Senate Republicans will cast a secret ballot on Wednesday to replace Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who previously announced his intention to step down as leader this spring.
While Stier supports reforms to what have become long, protracted nominations, he argued the Senate’s advice and consent responsibility is” core to our system”.
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” The Senate should independently evaluate all of these candidates”, he said. ” That is what the Constitution, how it was set up to do”.
The Biden-Trump meeting is scheduled for Wednesday at 11 a.m., but there will be no lunch between the pair or colonnade photo opportunities, according to a statement from the White House on Tuesday. Biden will attend Donald Trump’s inauguration in January, according to the White House.
