Biden memoir reveals warm 2021 letter Trump left in Oval Office
What's new: Biden also writes that Trump struck a similarly friendly tone during their November 2024 White House meeting.
Former President Joe Biden writes in his upcoming memoir that President Donald Trump left him a notably cordial letter in the Oval Office before Biden took office in January 2021. In an excerpt published ahead of next week’s release of “Promise Me, America,” Biden says the note contrasted with the public Trump he viewed as a threat to democracy. Biden quotes Trump wishing him success and blessing him and Jill Biden. The book also recounts their Nov. 13, 2024, White House meeting, where Biden writes that Trump was “chatty” and so friendly it “bordered on fawning,” adding that Trump told him they might have been friends if not for politics.