'Donald, congratulations': Biden plays nice as Trump returns to White House

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

92% : Trump, fingers press together, rejoined: "Thank you very much.
78% : But returning to Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Trump was greeted with thunderous applause by Republicans in the House of Representatives.
71% : "Thank you very much," Trump repeated.
68% : "Well, Mr President-elect and former president ... ," Biden began, shaking the right hand of Trump, whose left hand didn't quite know what to do as he breathed: "Thank you very much, Joe.
60% : "Biden settled on, "Donald, congratulations" - the first time he had used his rival's first name since the attempted assassination of Trump in July.
49% : Afterwards Congressman Troy Nehls, who recently backed a proposal to rename a Washington airport after Trump, told reporters that Republicans must embrace every word of his agenda.
44% : In one of his joking-not-joking asides, Trump told Republicans: "I suspect I won't be running again unless you say, 'He's so good, we got to figure something else out'."
42% : The meeting was the latest chapter in the strange history of Trump and Washington, a city he spent four years living on rather than in.
36% : He performed disastrously at the first presidential debate in Atlanta, Georgia, and ended up squabbling with Trump over who has the better golf swing.
36% : Trump tried to overthrow the US government and has been rewarded with unparalleled control of the US government.
31% : On Wednesday, Trump made a triumphant who's-got-the-last-laugh-now return to Washington, probably the least Trumpy place in the nation: Kamala Harris got 92.5% of the vote here compared to his 6.7%.
28% : Trump: The Revenge.
26% : At one point, Biden looked at Trump, who moved his head to the side and gave a small shrug but did not respond.
24% : Did he brag that he would have beaten Trump again if only Pelosi hadn't meddled?
21% : Yet there is still something jarring about Democrats, who 10 days ago were proclaiming Trump a fascist and an existential threat to American democracy, now treating him like just another politician.
19% : Sporting his red tie, Trump was back in the sacred space where Pelosi, Liz Cheney and others swore he must never foot again: the Oval Office.
11% : Trump was back in the Oval Office to discuss the transfer of power - a courtesy he never extended when he lost in 2020Nancy Pelosi once said Donald Trump would be "fumigated out" of the Oval Office if he lost the 2020 presidential election.
6% : Trump, for his part, has described Biden as "crooked", "stupid", a "low-IQ individual", "mentally impaired" and the "worst president" in American history.
3% : Trump was denounced by the Kennedy, Bush, Clinton and Obama dynasties and yet rose Lazarus-like from the dead to win the 2024 national popular vote.

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