They shook hands and smiled: Biden met with Trump
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19:58, 13 November, 2024
Meeting between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Photo: Kevin Lamarque / REUTERSOn Wednesday, November 13, US President Joe Biden received President-elect Donald Trump at the White House.
This is reported by CNN.
At the public part of the meeting, Biden congratulated Trump and expressed hope for a «smooth transition of power» in January.
“Well, Mr. President-elect, former president, Donald. Congratulations,» said Biden.
Then they shook hands.
«Politics is tough, and in many cases it's not a very nice world, but today it's a good world, and I appreciate that very much,» Trump said.
As the TV channel reports, during the meeting politicians probably discussed the issue of peaceful transfer of power.
Election of the 47th President of the USA
Voting in the presidential elections ended on November 6 in the USA — the last polling stations were closed in Alaska. Even before the official results were announced, Donald Trump declared himself the winner of the election. The Republican received 240 votes, while Democrat Kamala Harris received 213.
During the speech in Florida, Trump already made a number of statements. In particular , he assured that he plans to stop all wars in the world.
A number of country leaders have already congratulated Trump on his victory: French President Emmanuel Macron, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. For the first time, they commented on the results of the US elections in China, expressing hope for further peaceful and mutually beneficial relations.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy also congratulated US President Donald Trump on his victory in the elections. He noted that he hopes for the implementation of the «peace through strength» approach for a just end to the war in Ukraine.
Also, Vice President Kamala Harris called Donald Trump to congratulate him on his victory in the presidential elections.
But in Russia, they are in no hurry to congratulate Trump on his victory. The press secretary of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Dmytro Peskov, said that he did not know whether the leader of the new president would welcome them, because «the USA is an unfriendly country.»
It will be recalled that US presidential candidate Donald Trump officially won the election, having received 277 votes of the required 270.
In addition, the fortunes of the ten richest people in the world increased sharply by 63.5 billion dollars after the victory of Donald Trump in the presidential elections in the United States.
We will remind that the spokesman of the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, Dmytro Peskov, denied the information published by the Washington Post, that Putin and the newly elected President of the United States had a telephone conversation.
It will be recalled that earlier the Washington Post, citing its own sources, reported that Donald Trump had a telephone conversation with Vladimir Putin on November 7. One of the newspaper's interlocutors noted that Trump advised the Russian leader not to escalate the war in Ukraine, recalling the «significant military presence» of the United States in Europe.
It will be recalled that Donald Trump Jr., the son of the newly elected US president, published a video on his Instagram mocking the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The video says that Ukraine will lose the support of the United States in 38 days.
We will remind that Poland wants to create an alliance with Britain to protect Ukraine, because of Trump's victory