Inside Trump and Biden's 'gracious' and 'cordial' two-hour meeting

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

93% : Speaker Mike Johnson declared of Trump: 'He is the comeback king.'Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, sat in the audience, watching as Trump took the applause.
87% : President Joe Biden walks to the Oval Office with President-elect Donald Trump via the White House colonnadePresident Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office'We really had a really good meeting,' Trump told the New York Post after it had ended.
85% : Jill Biden joined her husband to greet Trump upon his arrival and gave him a handwritten letter of congratulations for Melania.
82% : Biden, like Trump, opted to use the massive wooden desk that was a gift from Queen Victoria to the United States.
80% : President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden greet President-elect Donald Trump upon his arrival to the White HouseLater, President Joe Biden greeted Trump like a visiting head of state, welcoming him in the White House's Diplomatic Room and walking him down the colonnade to the Oval Office.
75% : And Trump told the New York Post he and Biden plan to see each other again before the Inauguration, which Biden has pledged to attend.
73% : But, on Wednesday, Trump appeared at ease and, frankly, back at home.
72% : The day just got better for Trump.
69% : When he won the 2016 election and entered the Oval Office at that time, Trump appeared nervous and was unusually subdued, calling then-President Barack Obama 'a good man' and the meeting 'a great honor.'
57% : Four years ago, Trump left Washington before Biden's inauguration on January 20, 2021, becoming the first president to to skip the swearing-in of his successor since Andrew Johnson.
53% : 'I asked for his views and he gave them to me,' Trump said. '
53% : Trump and Biden last met two months ago at a 9/11 memorial ceremony in New York on September 11.
42% : Trump committed to a peaceful transition process, which is vastly different than how he handled it four years ago, when he falsely claimed he won the 2020 election.
37% : Trump came prepared with a list of seven questions to ask Biden.
36% : The scene was a marked contrast to how Trump left the White House four years ago - down and defeated, insisting he was the true winner of the 2020 election, and refusing to meet with his successor Joe Biden.
30% : President Joe Biden shakes hands with President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval OfficeTrump and Biden sat in front of the current president's favorite paintings of predecessors and busts of civil rights leadersMelania Trump was absent and did not meet with Jill Biden.
27% : At one point, Biden looked at Trump, who moved his head to the side and gave a small shrug, but did not respond.
22% : Biden showed Trump around his old haunt, pointing out the changes he had made.
21% : Previously, Trump had questioned if Obama was even an American and demanded to see his birth certificate.
19% : Soon after that meeting, Trump was back to his insults.
12% : And the talk about Trump continued as he announced a series of controversial cabinet appointments, including former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard as his director of National Intelligence and Rep. Matt Gaetz as his attorney general.
11% : Trump told The New York Post that he and Biden discussed two issues on which they have differed, including war in Ukraine and Israel's ongoing war with Hamas in Gaza.

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