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President-elect Donald Trump said he and President Joe Biden privately discussed the wars in Ukraine and Gaza during their post-election meeting at the White House on Wednesday (November 13) while discussing it exclusively with the New York Post.
“I wanted — I asked for his views and he gave them to me,” Trump said during a phone interview with the newspaper. “Also, we talked very much about the Middle East, likewise. I wanted to know his views on where we are and what he thinks. And he gave them to me, he was very gracious.”
Trump said that he and Biden "both really enjoyed seeing each other" and "got to know each other again" during his White House visit.
“You know, it’s been a long, it’s been a long slog,” Trump said. “It’s been a lot of work on both sides and he did a very good job with respect to campaigning and everything else. We really had a really good meeting."
Trump and Biden also discussed the transition of power on January 20 while sitting in front of reporters in the Oval Office with the incoming president vowing that it would be "as smooth as can be" after he and other Republicans publicly contested his 2020 election loss and thousands of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol in a violent protest on January 6, 2021.
“It’s going very smoothly,” Trump said while discussing the process of picking officials for his second term, adding that the Republican transition team and Biden White House officials have a “very, very good relationship.”
Trump also said he and Biden are expected to meet again before his inauguration, which the current president has already confirmed he will attend.
“The Oval Office is so beautiful and I do certainly look forward [to coming back],” Trump said. “We’ll have that very, very nice meeting that takes place between two presidents sometime prior. You know, that takes place just prior to going in. So we’ll have that. But this was a very enjoyable meeting.”