One of the funniest/dumbest things about Donald Trump is that if anyone shows him a little bit of grace or class, he suddenly becomes their biggest fan. It happened during the campaign too, when Kamala Harris called him after some guy with a gun was arrested at Trump’s golf club. For like 48 hours, all Trump could say about Kamala was that she was so nice to him and he appreciated her call. So it is with President Biden. Ol’ Handsome Joe does not give a sh-t anymore but he’s going through the motions. Trump was surprised by the fact that Biden even bothered. Pres. Biden invited Trump to the White House, and on Wednesday, that orange man waddled into the Oval. Trump and Biden did a quick photo-spray and then they had a private conversation after the cameras left the room. Much like Kamala Harris’s “you can’t take my joy” energy, Pres. Biden had the look of a man who was already thinking about his retirement. If “this ain’t my problem anymore” was a person, it’s Joe Biden. I understand completely – the voters have spoken, and they clearly wanted this aggrieved, downcast and ugly fascist. Trump also spoke to the NY Post about what happened in their meeting:
President-elect Donald Trump told The Post Wednesday that he and President Biden “both really enjoyed seeing each other” when they sat down for a historic post-election get-together in the Oval Office.
“You know, it’s been a long, it’s been a long slog,” the 78-year-old said during a phone interview as he left Washington. “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. We got to know each other again.”
“It’s going very smoothly,” Trump told The Post of the process of picking officials for his second term, adding that the Republican transition team and the Biden White House enjoy a “very, very good relationship.”
The president-elect added that he and Biden did discuss two issues on which they have differed in the past: the war in Ukraine, which Trump has promised to end almost immediately upon taking office; and the ongoing war in the Middle East, with the Republican standard-bearer accusing the Biden administration of being insufficiently supportive of Israel.
“I wanted — I asked for his views and he gave them to me,” Trump told The Post. “Also, we talked very much about the Middle East, likewise. I wanted to know his views on where we are and what what he thinks. And he gave them to me, he was very gracious.”
See what I mean? Trump won’t be able to say anything nasty about Biden for maybe 48 hours. Biden’s energy in these photos and in the meeting reminds me so much of the reaction of the Democratic base too – “y’all voted for him, so I hope you get everything he promised you.” Trump and his cult hoped to drink our lib tears and they’re so mad that we’re not going to pull our own January 6th.
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— Matt Viser (@mviser) November 13, 2024
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- United States President Joe Biden, right, and US President-elect Donald Trump during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, November 13, 2024. Biden will argue in favor of continued US aid to Ukraine during the transition to President-elect Donald Trump s administration, according to national security advisor Jake Sullivan. Copyright: xIndependentxStillxPoolxphotox 2024xBloombergxFinancexLPxfromxConsolidatedxNewsxPhotosxAllxRightsxReservedx,Image: 934013510, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: imago is entitled to issue a simple usage license at the time of provision. Personality and trademark rights as well as copyright laws regarding art-works shown must be observed. Commercial use at your own risk., Model Release: no, Credit line: IMAGO/Al Drago / Pool via CNP /MediaPunch / Avalon
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- United States President Joe Biden, right, and US President-elect Donald Trump during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, November 13, 2024. Biden will argue in favor of continued US aid to Ukraine during the transition to President-elect Donald Trump s administration, according to national security advisor Jake Sullivan. Copyright: xIndependentxStillxPoolxphotox 2024xBloombergxFinancexLPxfromxConsolidatedxNewsxPhotosxAllxRightsxReservedx,Image: 934013632, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: imago is entitled to issue a simple usage license at the time of provision. Personality and trademark rights as well as copyright laws regarding art-works shown must be observed. Commercial use at your own risk., Model Release: no, Credit line: IMAGO/Al Drago / Pool via CNP /MediaPunch / Avalon
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- United States President Joe Biden, right, shakes hands with US President-elect Donald J Trump during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, November 13, 2024. Biden will argue in favor of continued US aid to Ukraine during the transition to President-elect Donald Trump s administration, according to national security advisor Jake Sullivan. Copyright: xIndependentxStillxPoolxphotox 2024xBloombergxFinancexLPxfromxConsolidatedxNewsxPhotosxAllxRightsxReservedx,Image: 934013950, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: imago is entitled to issue a simple usage license at the time of provision. Personality and trademark rights as well as copyright laws regarding art-works shown must be observed. Commercial use at your own risk., Model Release: no, Credit line: IMAGO/Al Drago / Pool via CNP /MediaPunch / Avalon
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- United States President Joe Biden, right, and US President-elect Donald Trump during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, November 13, 2024. Biden will argue in favor of continued US aid to Ukraine during the transition to President-elect Donald Trump’s administration, according to national security advisor Jake Sullivan. Credit: Al Drago / Pool via CNP Featuring: Joe Biden, Donald J Trump Where: Washington, District of Columbia, United States When: 13 Nov 2024 Credit: POOL via CNP/INSTARimages.com
The Bidens handled “a bad day at work” with grace.
Biden looks chipper and I think happy he is moving on. He could take on charitable enterprises like jimmy Carter did and set up his presidential library
Joe looks like a kid that was just told they were going to Six Flags this weekend. And there is this weird anger that people aren’t crying into their soup, and instead giving off the general energy of you broke it you bought it. Says a lot about someone’s mindset though that the only reason that they want to take an action is because they hope that you hate it. I didn’t want Kamala to win to stick it to maga. I wanted her to win because it’d be better for democracy, the country and the world. Those people didn’t even come into the equation.
Didn’t the British prime minister whistle as he walked away from the press after announcing his resignation after Brexit? Same vibe here IMO
I have a maga sister, in Oct I asked her if she believes the 2020 election was stolen…she said 1000% and I said well if it was why wouldn’t the “evil Democrats” do it again in 2024?? How can u believe one election and not the other. She was already preparing for “rigged”. The Pandora box of it all !
I have tears in my eyes for so many reasons. 💙💔
Biden, like me, is all out of effs to give. You break it, you bought it. If I had a bunker I would be stockpiling. America get ready.
He said about the presidency, “I may not leave”. There you go , people. No more elections. He made that statement while campaigning. Dictatorship. You were warned.
@Libra–exactly, he’s not going to leave.
When the NYT published a wise and moving editorial about this catastrophic loss, one thing that made me think “huh?” was the presumption in the editorial that this guy could only serve for one more term.
He controls all 3 sides of the government, Executive, Legislative, and Judicial. Wouldn’t it be as simple as repealing the term limit law or revising it to say it’s 2 terms at a time instead of in a lifetime?
We’re seeing a fundamental shift in our democracy. I’ll be honest, I keep thinking it’s like the rise of Panem in the Hunger Games.
Fortunately, he’s old and dementing.
While none of this is funny, I have enjoyed watching the conservatives on Reddit melting down right and left. They’re shocked (🤷♀️) by Trump’s awful cabinet picks and wondering why the liberals aren’t angry or coming to save them from their pathetic choices. It’s a FAFO feast and the schadenfreude helps me get through the day.
I am in my Chaos Energy Era and I am looking forward to telling everyone “I told you so.” Part of me doesn’t want the Dems to save us. I want them to stand to the side and let the Republicans get everything they want because maybe then some of the saner people will listen. Others will call it Fake News and continue to blame others for the problems they caused.
If these laughable cabinet choices actually happen (Tulsi = Russian asset) , this country’s federal government will officially be hanging together with bubble gum. (Notice no announcements yet about Depts of Education or Energy – the two MAGA wants to get rid of.) Time to get a genealogy report on my grandparents and apply for an EU passport. This country may be done. Have to prep to migrate back to the old country.
@HILLARYISALWAYSRIGHT, same girl, same…except my genealogy report would put me smack dab in the middle of…Belarus. Which has its own dictatorship. 🤦🏼♀️
that’s been the one bright spot in the past 10 days. Every awful cabinet appointment or whatever – I’m like well that’s about what I expected. I mean Matt Gaetz for AG? that’s horrifying but its not like I thought he would pick someone qualified or nonpartisan etc. At this point I’m just surprised that he named Marco Rubio for State and not Don Jr.
But it seems that a lot of the Trump voters – the ones who wouldn’t’ say they’re MAGA maybe – *are* surprised at these picks. Like they DID expect him to pick someone qualified and experienced, even if they were fairly conservative. Or they’re hoping that the senate doesn’t confirm all these people or that the Dems wave a magic wand to protect them from the worst Trump tendencies.
Sorry people. You broke it, you bought it. This is on you. We’re all just holding on and hoping we survive.
The Democratic Party can’t even save themselves. They need to focus on rebuilding and listening to what the people want instead of telling people what they want. They should have been honest about Biden’s health instead of throwing together a last minute campaign.
A fuc^ing desecration.
Did he invite Biden in 2020? My brain is deep fried in disgust so I can’t even remember.
Nope. Because he’s never acknowledged he lost that election. His team didn’t coordinate a transition with Biden’s either. IN A PANDEMIC. The Biden staffers had to handle the pandemic measures and vaccine orders & distribution all on their own, staring from scratch, with no preparations or plans made by Tr*mp’s people. Tr*mp couldn’t care less if we all died, especially here in New York City, because we didn’t vote for him. How quickly Americans forget, Tr*mp just focused on the classified documents he could steal and sell out of his bathroom in FL.
From what I read, he did not.
He didn’t invite Biden because he kept insisting that he won. There was nothing resembling a normal transition or peaceful transfer of power at all. Everything was chaos 24/7 from election day to the inauguration.
As everyone pointed out, no, Trump didn’t do anything to transition to Biden. He also had the White House locked up on inauguration day and sent White House steward/s home from work in a move to keep Biden out – a move that only works in cartoons and rom-coms.
I see a sunburnt toad and… wtf is wrong with Biden—I guess he has been using his down time for some more facial tightening.
Lol somebody sees it! I’ve been calling Trump “The Orange Toad” in my head for 8 years now! That is exactly what he looks like. I think Joe looks fine.
I’m glad that ol’ Handsome Joe is leaning into his case of the fuck-its, but God, these photos hurt. If Kamala does the same with Vance, I’d better not look at the photos, because I literally might throw up.
I am waiting to see if Kamala invites Vance to the Naval Observatory since that’s tradition also. I’m really hoping she does not and let’s him find the bathrooms for himself. Yesterday, was a little too much normalizing of Trump for my taste. That’s why he softened for a day. But he will go back to being a psycho quickly. You can model good behavior and concede the election without acting like all is well. We didn’t need that driveway photo.
Agreed. They don’t have to smile.
Miranda, she would have to find Vance to invite him. I’ve noticed that he doesn’t appear anywhere. Where is he?
The sad thing is not Trump. Trump is a nasty symptom. What is sadder than any one person being elected are the amount of people who voted for this change to happen. Democracy is being reshaped into an oligarchy and the very people to be ruled by oligarchs are the one that are choosing that path. There is no doubt now that the courts and legislature will will see to it that a clear path is laid for this to continue to its final goal of populace submission and unbridled control. The waning light of that shining city on the hill.
Something HAS to be happening. We’re going to roll out the Oscar carpet for that monster…seriously. Here Hitler, we know what you’re going to do; here’s the keys. 😶 Is there a cryo chamber somewhere?
I just keep thinking/hoping….
HEY JOE, WHAT DO YOU KNOW?
Ugh! 4 more years of the media being “shocked, dismayed & disappointed” by this orange turd & his cronies. I am tuning it out this time. Ready to shout “Told ya!” at all of these MAGAts! FAFO indeed. (I say this knowing I’m going to be affected too)
“Trump and his cult hoped to drink our lib tears and they’re so mad that we’re not going to pull our own January 6th.”
Yeah, they are baffled by normal behaviors. I saw on X last week (I deactivated my account today) rumblings about “Why are they so quiet? What are they planning?” Um. This is how normal people act when they lose an election. We are taking some time to mourn, recollecting ourselves, and then making plans for how we will fare this administration.
Or MAGATs making up hurtful stories that Ella Emhoff had a mental breakdown and was checking into a psychiatric facility…because she cried when her step-mom lost the election. Hey, MAGATs, crying when you are sad is a normal, sane reaction. Smearing your poop on the Capitol walls while trying to murder Nancy Pelosi and Mike Pence…is not.
I work with some Trump loving Republicans and the day after the election I heard one say “the libs are breaking down, they are protesting and setting things on fire already. My daughter called in sick to work and was crying all day. This will not be peaceful!”
A week later….crickets.
I think it really does piss them off to realize that the other side that they hate so much can be peaceful and respectful even if everything goes wrong for them, unlike some of the people on their side. I think they wanted to see chaos, wanted to be able to send the military and tear gas and rubber bullets into Democratic cities to assault protesters and start asserting dominance. Now they are sad and confused that it’s not happening and they don’t get their photo ops of Dems and liberals crying.
America can’t be saved, and it decided so on its own. The rest of us who know what’s coming just need to hunker down or get out while we can. Be prepared because the rest certainly won’t be, and that’s not our problem. This being said, when the blood and dust has settled, I think most retrospectives will recognize what was done to Biden was an injustice similar to Carter, and the nation threw away its chance at moving forward to be spiteful.
Biden is an institutionalist, he’s going to do the job, including transition. He’s been in politics 50 years, he’s dealt with scum every day. He’s had to befriend A-holes to build coalitions most of his adult life -remember how he was friends with Mitch and (unlike Obama) got his judicial appointments secured? I’m sure Biden still has choice words in private. I heard he’s been rushing to get US chips contracts secured, Taiwan’s future will be less safe if the US president is spineless.
Truthiness, I think there’s been a lot of illegal stuff happening with the election and I anticipate that’s being investigated. I would anticipate that intelligence agencies around the world know what’s been going on and will give that info to the US. I’m waiting it out.
If the election had been too close to call it would be one thing. But the majority voted for Trump and just because he wanted to stay forever in the White House doesn’t make it right if Biden took that attitude as well.
I do think some people are working behind the scenes. I grew up in a political family and some of this is not unprecedented. Let’s remember the almost clean sweep the Republicans won in 1984 (this was a couple years before I was born but my parents thought Reagan winning was the end of the world and he has several parallels with Trump – public health disasters, attempts to dismantle the Department of Education, etc). W Bush’s election also was a foretaste of all this.
Of course there are contextual differences here but let’s remember that Trump AND Republicans controlled Congress in 2016 and they still couldn’t do everything they wanted.
Best to be alert but ready. A bill to give Trump even more power failed in the House this week. There are some signs for hope.
I really hope that each stupid idiot who voted for the orange geriatric fascist gets what’s coming for them. There are literally no excuses to be voting for that.
Trump bought himself a new suit! It actually fits + makes his frame look less schlubby. Anyhoo – Still a c*nt.
Well Buffett, Iger etc are selling a lot of their stocks and getting their cash. You know what that means in relation to markets. I have no sympathies whatsoever for MAGAs. I think some realize it now, for all their whining about grocery prices this year they’re now going to Costco to stock up as they finally understand what tariffs mean 🙄🙄. idiots !