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Luke Funk

Joe Biden Tells Donald Trump 'Welcome Home' As He Arrives At The White House

President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden greet President-elect Donald Trump as he arrives at the White House in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. (Credit: JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden greeted President-elect Donald Trump and Melania Trump at the White House on Monday morning ahead of the inauguration.

Biden told Trump "Welcome home" as they posed for photos.

President Joe Biden, First Lady Jill Biden poses with President-elect Donald Trump and wife Melania Trump as they arrive at the White House in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. (Credit: ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)

The couples then went inside for tea together in the White House.

After the private event, the wives left together to head to the Capitol for the inauguration ceremony.

Biden and Trump emerged a few minutes later to take a limo together to the event.

President Joe Biden, Senator Amy Klobuchar, Democrat from Minnesota, and President-elect Donald Trump depart the White House for the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. (Credit: ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)

Donald Trump promises a new "golden age" for America as the world braces for a return of his unpredictable leadership.

Freezing weather forced the 78-year-old's inauguration at the US Capitol indoors, but the first hours of the most extraordinary comeback in American politics will be a blaze of activity.

The Republican vowed to unleash a blitz of executive orders undoing Joe Biden's legacy upon his return to the White House and to launch immediate deportations of undocumented migrants.

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