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Melania Trump declined an invitation to meet with Jill Biden.

Melania Trump declined an invitation to meet with Jill Biden.

The wife of the winner of the US presidential election, Donald Trump, Melania Trump, declined an invitation to a meeting at the White House with the current first lady Jill Biden.

“Mrs. Trump will not attend… the meeting at the White House,” Melania’s office said in a post on the social network X. The reasons for the refusal were not specified.


The New York Times notes that in this way Melania Trump is breaking the tradition that has developed over many years, according to which the future first lady of the United States meets with the wife of the current president, which symbolizes the process of transfer of power.


However, the newspaper writes, citing White House employees, Jill Biden gave Donald Trump a handwritten congratulation for his wife.

Earlier, Biden and Trump met at the White House. According to White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, the current president, during a conversation with the election winner, confirmed that the transfer of power will take place in a peaceful and orderly format.