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Polybius

(19,024 posts) Mon Jan 20, 2025, 12:41 AM Jan 20

CNN Biden plans to leave Trump a letter, following modern presidential tradition

Source: Yahoo! News

Before he leaves office for the final time, President Joe Biden plans to pen President-elect Donald Trump a letter, CNN is told.

Four years ago, when Trump famously skipped Biden’s inauguration after refusing to acknowledge his victory, Biden revealed that Trump had followed one presidential tradition by leaving him a letter on the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office. While its exact contents have never been revealed, Biden later described it as “very generous.”

At the time, a senior Trump aide described the letter to CNN as a “personal note” that prayed for the success of the country and the new administration to care for the country.

It is a modern tradition for outgoing presidents to write their successors a letter and leave it for them on the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-plans-leave-trump-letter-021800282.html

I'm actually quite surprised that Trump left Biden a letter 4 years ago. This is the first time that I'm hearing about it.

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CNN Biden plans to leave Trump a letter, following modern presidential tradition (Original Post) Polybius Jan 20 OP

Someone leaked a copy of the note JoseBalow Jan 20 #1

How much do we want to bet that... 3catwoman3 Jan 20 #2

There is no way he wrote a letter notinkansas Jan 20 #4

Perhaps this word in there blueseas Jan 20 #3

The "very generous" letter was written by a kind staffer. Oopsie Daisy Jan 20 #5

Oh, don't tempt me Marthe48 Jan 20 #6

I hope the letter begins with "A big FU". louis-t Jan 20 #7

Two letters...... F U groundloop Jan 20 #8

JoseBalow

(6,308 posts)

1. Someone leaked a copy of the note

Reply to Polybius (Original post)

Mon Jan 20, 2025, 12:49 AM

Jan 20

3catwoman3

(26,045 posts)

2. How much do we want to bet that...

Reply to Polybius (Original post)

Mon Jan 20, 2025, 01:02 AM

Jan 20

..he didn’t write it?

notinkansas

(1,137 posts)

4. There is no way he wrote a letter

Reply to 3catwoman3 (Reply #2)

Mon Jan 20, 2025, 01:52 AM

Jan 20

unless it was full of hate. The Bidens were locked out of the White House after the inauguration in 2020. I would bet that somebody else wrote it and put it on the desk after 45 left.

blueseas

(11,665 posts)

3. Perhaps this word in there

Reply to Polybius (Original post)

Mon Jan 20, 2025, 01:31 AM

Jan 20

nefandous

So wicked as to defy description: abominable, appalling.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin nefandus (wicked), from ne- (not) + fandus (to be spoken), gerundive (verbal adjective) of fari (to speak). Earliest documented use: 1649.

https://wordsmith.org/