Former president donald trump commented on the “nice note” he left the President Joe Biden when he left office in 2021.
“You know, it’s interesting. In fact he said it’s up to me to do it and I really think it’s up to him to do it,” Trump said after “Meet the pressModerator Kristen Welker asked him to make “a little sense” of the letter.
“I think it was a very nice note. I took a lot of time to think about it. “I would love for him to do a great job even if he was very bad politically.”
The letter, part of a tradition of outgoing presidents leaving notes for their successor, is one that Biden described as “very generous”in 2021.
He did not elaborate on the letter at the time, adding that it was private and that he would not discuss it until speaking with Trump.
Trump, months after Biden’s inauguration, he told lisa boothe who wished Biden luck in a letter that came “from the heart.”
Biden, who reportedly found Trump’s letter to be “surprisingly kind“, he put the letter in his pocket and “He did not share it with his advisors“After finding him in the Oval Office, Bob Woodward and Robert Costa wrote in their book “Danger.”
just psakiformer Biden White House press secretary, he told Rob Lowe last year that the president took the letter for himself after discovering it.
“And he’s such a classy guy, whether people agree with his politics or not, that he didn’t even convey to us at the time what the letter said,” Psaki said.
She continued: “It was long, it was very long. The script, from what I could see, was very beautiful.”
The letters left by the presidents head to the National Archives and are made available to the public.