President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump will meet on the White House on Wednesday morning, officers introduced on Saturday.
The two will meet within the Oval Office at 11 a.m. that day, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre stated in an announcement.
The announcement comes 4 days after Trump was projected to win the presidential election, defeating Vice President Kamala Harris.
The Trump transition staff didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
In the times following her loss, each Biden and Harris dedicated to a peaceable switch of energy.
At her concession speech at Howard University in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, the vp instructed supporters, “Earlier immediately, I spoke with President-elect Trump and congratulated him on his victory. I additionally instructed him that we’ll assist him and his staff with their transition and that we’ll have interaction in a peaceable switch of energy.”
In a cellphone name with NBC News on Thursday, Trump praised Harris for her dedication to a clean transition between administrations, saying that in a cellphone name, Harris “talked about transition, and he or she stated she’d prefer it to be clean as could be, which I agree with, in fact.”
In a separate speech on Thursday, Biden echoed the identical sentiment, telling reporters on the White House, “I’ll do my obligation as president: I’ll fulfill my oath and I’ll honor the Constitution. On Jan. 20, we’ll have a peaceable switch of energy right here in America.”
In 2020, following Trump’s loss to Biden, the earlier Trump administration stonewalled the transition between administrations, spending weeks denying that Trump misplaced and combating the Biden staff’s efforts to start transition work.
Only in early January, hours after a violent mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol looking for to cease Congress from certifying Biden’s victory, did then-President Trump conform to an orderly and peaceable switch of energy.
Trump explicitly didn’t invite Biden to satisfy on the White House in 2020, forgoing a customized that Trump participated in with then-President Barack Obama in 2016.