In a short speech with a solemn tone, Joe Biden committed this Thursday to ensuring a transition “peaceful and orderly” with Donald Trump, his predecessor and soon-to-be successor in the White House, whose return is a terrible humiliation for him.
“I hope that no matter who we vote for, we can see ourselves as fellow citizens and not as adversaries. Lower the temperature” in a country on edge, he said during this first speech since the Republican's resounding victory in the presidential election.
Speaking in the Rose Garden of the White House, he tried to raise the morale of the ministers and advisers seated opposite him, who applauded and gave him a standing ovation, with closed faces. “It's a difficult moment. You are suffering (…) Don't forget everything we have accomplished. It has been a historic presidency“, assured the octogenarian head of state, whose economic and diplomatic record could be largely unraveled by his successor.
“We lost this battle, but the America you dream of demands that you get back up“, said Joe Biden, who is ending fifty years of political life with a global humiliation. The outgoing president had left his place as candidate in July to his vice-president Kamala Harris.
He is accused in his camp of having allowed the resounding return of Donald Trump, this sworn enemy whom he painted as a danger to democracy, by clinging too long to a hopeless candidacy. Joe Biden invited the Republican to the White House on an unspecified date to prepare for the arrival of the next administration, in which controversial figures such as Elon Musk or Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could play important roles.
The Republican, who never acknowledged his defeat in 2020 and who had shunned Joe Biden's inauguration ceremony, “looking forward to this meeting“, according to her team. Kamala Harris is also committed to the “help“for the transfer of power. Donald Trump, who will be sworn in on January 20, and who has spent the last three months of the campaign insulting his rival, has found it”strength, professionalism and tenacity“, according to his team.
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