President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump spoke on the telephone over the Thanksgiving vacation final week, in line with two folks accustomed to the decision.
The beforehand unreported telephone name marks the one identified time Biden and Trump have spoken for the reason that president-elect visited the White House for a gathering within the Oval Office on Nov. 13.
The two folks accustomed to the dialog mentioned Trump known as Biden to want him a contented Thanksgiving. They mentioned the dialog between the 2 leaders was transient and never substantive.
The president and first girl Jill Biden spent the Thanksgiving vacation in Nantucket, Massachusetts, with shut household, together with their son, Hunter, and daughter, Ashley.
When requested by reporters final Friday whether or not he anticipated to talk with Trump once more earlier than the inauguration, Biden mentioned: “I count on so.”
Biden’s invitation for Trump to go to the White House and Trump’s subsequent telephone name are a departure from the final transition between administrations after the 2020 election.
Trump didn’t host Biden on the White House after his election defeat, defying the customary invitation.
The Trump administration additionally stalled the transition after Biden’s election victory 4 years in the past, denying election outcomes and scuttling efforts from Biden’s transition crew to ascertain a clean switch of energy.
Trump didn’t attend Biden’s inauguration in 2021, turning into the primary outgoing incumbent in 150 years to not attend his successor’s inauguration. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre mentioned at a press briefing the week earlier than the 2024 election that Biden would attend January’s inauguration whatever the final result, and White House senior deputy press secretary Andrew Bates reiterated final week that Biden plans to attend the inauguration.