Trump Told Biden They’d Be ‘Good Friends’ if Not for Politics, Ex President Reveals
Biden said Trump praised his job creation and called him a possible friend, while Biden criticized the president’s Jan. 6 pardons and policy reversals.
- On Monday, an excerpt from former President Joe Biden's upcoming memoir, Promise Me, America, revealed that President-elect Donald Trump was unexpectedly friendly during their November 2024 meeting, telling Biden they could have been 'good friends' without politics.
- This conciliatory tone marked a sharp departure from the campaign trail, where Trump frequently hurled insults like 'Sleepy Joe' at his predecessor; Trump also praised Biden's 'extraordinary' job-creation efforts, leaving the former president 'too stunned' to respond.
- The meeting in the Oval Office lasted nearly two hours, far exceeding the scheduled 30 minutes, as Biden wrote he felt Trump was 'buttering up' while focusing on personality gossip rather than critical foreign policy issues.
- Despite the friendly exchange, Biden used the memoir to criticize Trump's pardon of nearly 1,600 people convicted for their actions on January 6, 2021, writing that what Trump did that day 'should follow him to his grave.'
- Biden's full memoir is scheduled for release on November 17, though the former president has scaled back in-person promotional events for the book to accommodate ongoing treatment for an aggressive form of prostate cancer.
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