President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump are set to meet in the Oval Office Wednesday.
The meeting, announced by White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Saturday, will take place at 11 a.m., per NBC News.
The meeting comes a little over a week after Trump beat Vice President Kamala Harris for the presidency.
Both Biden and Harris assured there would be a peaceful transition of power.
“Earlier today, I spoke with President-elect Trump and congratulated him on his victory. I also told him that we will help him and his team with their transition and that we will engage in a peaceful transfer of power,” Harris said in her concession speech Howard University in Washington, D.C., Wednesday.
Trump later noted to NBC News Thursday what Harris had said about the transition.
Harris “talked about transition, and she said she’d like it to be smooth as can be, which I agree with, of course,” Trump said.
On Thursday, Biden reinforced the sentiment when he spoke with reporters.
“I will do my duty as president: I will fulfill my oath and I will honor the Constitution. On Jan. 20, we’ll have a peaceful transfer of power here in America,” Biden said.
The meeting, for which Biden extended the invitation, is a tradition between the outgoing president and the incoming president.
The purpose of the meeting is to signify the beginning of a peaceful transfer of power under democracy in America, per CBS News.
That was not the case in 2020 when there was no such meeting between Trump and Biden, who walked away from that election victorious.
Trump will repeat a scenario only seen once in U.S. history — serving two nonconsecutive terms.
Trump was the 45th president when he served his first term. He will then be the 47th president when he is sworn in in January.
It happened once before when Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th president.
