President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump will meet at the White House on Wednesday morning, officials said Saturday.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement that the two will meet in the Oval Office at 11 a.m. that day.
The announcement comes four days after Trump was predicted to win the presidential election, defeating Vice President Kamala Harris.
Trump’s transition team did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
In the days since his loss, both Biden and Harris have remained committed to a peaceful transfer of power.
To him concession speech “I spoke with President-elect Trump earlier this morning and congratulated him on his victory,” the vice president told supporters at Howard University in Washington on Wednesday. I also told him that we will help him and his team in his transition and deal with the peaceful transfer of power.”
In Phone call with NBC News on Thursday, Trump praised Harris for his commitment to a smooth transition between administrations, saying in a phone call that Harris “talked about the transition and he wants it to be as smooth as possible, and I agree. of course.”
In a separate exit On Thursday, Biden repeated the same sentiment, telling reporters at the White House: “I will do my duty as president: I will honor my oath and I will respect the Constitution. There will be a peaceful transfer of power in America on January 20.”
In 2020, after Trump lost to Biden, the previous Trump administration stoned the passage spending weeks between administrations denying that Trump is losing and fighting efforts by the Biden team to begin the transition work.
Only in early January, hours after a violent mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in an attempt to prevent Congress from ratifying Biden’s victory, then-President Trump agree to an orderly and peaceful transfer of strength.
Trump publicly did not invite Biden to a meeting at the White House in 2020, abandoning a custom that Trump attended with then-President Barack Obama in 2016.
Jake Traylor contributed.