The President of the United States, Joe Biden, and the one who will succeed him from January 20. Donald Trumpmet this Wednesday at the White House during a meeting during which they took the opportunity to reiterate their commitment to a “smooth transition”.
Both held a brief meeting in front of reporters in the Oval Office during which Biden offered his administration’s collaboration so that Trump had “everything you need” upon his return to the White House four years later.
“Thank you very much. Politics is difficult and in many cases it is not a pleasant world, but Today it’s a nice world“, declared Trump who expressed his gratitude to Biden for his desire for an orderly transfer of powers.
Trump won the US presidential elections a little over a week ago against his Democratic rival and current vice president, Kamala Harrisand will return to the White House four years after having lost precisely against Biden.
This transfer of power has not been as peaceful as Biden now suggests, and even Trump is under investigation for his role in the storming of the Capitol in January 2021, days before the outgoing president’s inauguration .
Donald Trump and Joe Biden took advantage of their meeting to discuss the war in Ukraine and Israeli hostages in Gaza, according to the White House.
The future Trump administration
Donald Trump will appoint Elon Musk to a new department to be called Government Effectiveness and that a Fox presenter will now be out of government, Pete Hegsethwho was a war correspondent, will be the secretary of defense.
Elon Musk at the Department of Government Effectiveness
It was Donald Trump who announced this Tuesday that tycoon Elon Musk and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy would lead the new Department of Government Effectiveness (DOGE). “I am pleased to announce that the great Elon Musk, Together with American patriot Vivek Ramaswamy, he will lead DOGE. Together, these two wonderful Americans will lead the way for my administration to dismantle government bureaucracy, eliminate excessive regulations, cut wasteful spending, and restructure federal agencies,” he said in a statement.
A Fox presenter, at Defense
Donald Trump also announced the election of the army veteran and host of the conservative Fox News channel. Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense.
“I am honored to announce that I have nominated Pete Hegseth to join my Cabinet as Secretary of Defense. “Pete spent his entire life as a warrior for the troops and the country,” he said on his Truth Social platform.
Trump introduced Hegseth as “a true believer in ‘America First,'” alluding to the 2016 Republican campaign slogan aimed at advocating a less interventionist foreign policy. “With Pete at the helm, America’s enemies know: our armed forces will be great again and the United States will never back down,” he warned.
