It has been just over a week since his landslide election victory. former and future President Trump He returns to the White House on Wednesday.

Trump is returning to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. for the first time in nearly four years at the invitation of the man he eliminated from the 2024 White House race: President Biden.

The two presidents will sit in the Oval Office around 11 a.m., according to the White House.

Dropping out of the race for Biden, who ended his re-election bid in July, a month after his disastrous debate performance against Trump reignited questions about whether the 81-year-old president could physically and mentally survive another four years in the White House and led to calls against him. It may be strange for him to meet his predecessor and now his successor.

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President Biden and former President Trump are shown during their debate in Atlanta on June 27, 2024. (Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Trump has spent years verbally eviscerating Biden and his performance in the White House. Even after Biden ended his reelection bid, Trump continued to blame the president and his successor for the Democrats’ 2024 ticket: Vice President Harris.

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And Biden has called Trump a threat to the nation’s democracy for several years.

But traditionalist Biden wants to ensure a smooth transition between administrations.

President Biden, Vice President Harris, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Denis McDonough, and Maj. Gen. Trevor Bredenkamp attend a ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia on November 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

“I assured him that I would direct my entire administration to work with his team,” the president said when he made the invitation during his post-election meeting with Trump last week.

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In an apparent change of tone toward Biden, Trump’s team said the president-elect was “looking forward to the meeting.”

Biden’s visit offer to Trump white house It was an invitation he never accepted.

Donald Trump (Evan Vucci/AP)

Four years ago, after his election defeat at the hands of Biden, Trump refused to give up and tried unsuccessfully to overturn the results.

Breaking with long-standing tradition, Trump did not invite Biden to the White House. And two weeks after the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection by Trump supporters at the U.S. Capitol aimed at disrupting the congressional certification of Biden’s Electoral College victory, Trump left Washington before the inauguration of his successor, becoming the first president to be in office for more than three years. a century to skip the inauguration of his successor.

Veteran political scientist Wayne Lesperance told Fox News: “President Biden’s decision to welcome President-elect Trump to the White House is a tribute to the normalcy of the presidential transition. What was denied after Joe Biden’s election was Biden’s is being reinstated.” .

Lesperance, president of New Hampshire-based New England College, called Biden’s invitation “a significant gesture in legitimizing Trump’s return to power by the nation’s leading Democrat, and we hope it will be met with a commitment to orderly transitions in the United States.” future.”

The meeting will be the first between Biden and Trump since they faced off in their only debate in Atlanta on June 27. The two presidents, along with Harris and Trump’s vice president, now Vice President-elect Senator J.D. Vance, stood side by side at the 23rd anniversary ceremonies of the 9/11 terrorist in New York City’s Lower Manhattan on September 11. attacks.

This will be Trump’s second meeting with an outgoing president at the White House.

Eight years ago, after defeating Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, Trump sat down at the White House with President Obama, who was completing his second term.

Obama told Trump at that time, “We will now want to do everything we can to help you succeed. Because if you are successful, the country will be successful.”

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Although it is a tradition, meetings between incoming and outgoing presidents are not mandatory.

One big question mark heading into the meeting: Will the vice president join Biden and Trump for any part of the meeting?

Harris called Trump last week and congratulated him on his victory over him.

The last time an incumbent vice president ran for president and lost was 24 years ago, when then-Vice President Al Gore narrowly lost to then-Texas Governor George W. Bush.

Gore joined Bush and outgoing President Clinton in the Oval Office for what was said to be a very awkward meeting.