Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) shared a glimpse into what went down throughout the shared limousine trip of outgoing President Joe Biden and incoming President Donald Trump to the positioning of the inauguration on Monday.
Klobuchar, the chair of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, rode with the 2 males from the White Home to the U.S. Capitol for Trump’s swearing-in ceremony.
In an interview with ABC Information, Klobuchar recalled a number of the matters that had been mentioned throughout the trip.
“I’m not going to reveal every detail except to say maybe we did discuss football just a little bit and some of the games yesterday,” Klobuchar advised ABC’s David Muir. “We also talked about the now-president’s upcoming trip to Los Angeles, and I talked to him privately about that with the Olympics coming, and how important that is, and of course, mentioned the firefighters in my speech.”
Trump is planning to go to Los Angeles this week to survey the injury inflicted by wildfires which have killed a minimum of 27 individuals and destroyed hundreds of properties.
Whereas Trump didn’t provide the identical courtesy to Biden on the day of his inauguration in January 2021, Biden and his spouse, Jill, greeted his successor and now-first woman Melania Trump on the White Home on Monday morning, and invited the couple in for a tea reception earlier than departing for the ceremony.
Klobuchar stated Biden was “gracious,” including that the 2 males and their workers just lately labored collectively to assist dealer a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas within the warfare in Gaza.
The senator additionally expressed hope that Democrats will be capable to forge a working relationship with Trump regardless of current tensions.
“There’s going to be a lot of disagreements going forward but there has to be a way where we can cross the river of our divides and find some common ground when we can,” Klobuchar stated.
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Klobuchar, who kicked off the inauguration proceedings, stated the theme of this yr was “enduring democracy.”
“The presence of so many presidents and vice presidents here today is truly a testament to that endurance,” she stated in her remarks.
