The tradition of passing on authority from one US president to their successor has been maintained for the past 36 years.
Fox News reported on January 20th that while signing a series of executive orders in the Oval Office at the White House, Trump discovered a letter left by his predecessor in the drawer of his Resolute Desk, after a reporter asked him if he had received a letter from former President Joe Biden.
President Trump found Biden's letter thanks to a journalist's question.
"Maybe he left it. Don't they usually leave it on this desk? I'm not sure," Trump replied to reporters before searching and discovering the letter with the number 47 written on the outside. "Thank you. [If we hadn't been reminded] it might have taken us years to find this letter," Trump added. He joked about inviting the reporters in the room to read the letter with him, but then said he would read it first before deciding.
President Donald Trump presented a letter left behind by his predecessor Joe Biden.
Biden has continued the tradition of sending letters to successors, a tradition initiated by the late President Ronald Reagan in 1989 when he left a letter to George H.W. Bush that humorously read, "Don't let the turkeys discourage you." Since then, these letters have often been sent by predecessors with well wishes, encouragement, or messages of unity.
Because he served two non-consecutive terms, Trump was the first person to receive letters from two previous presidents, including Barack Obama and Joe Biden. In 2021, although he did not attend Biden's inauguration, Trump left a letter in the Oval Office, which Biden described as "very generous" and which he spent a lot of time reflecting on, according to ABC News.
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