Biden to attend Trump inauguration, White House says

U.S. President Joe Biden volition be Donald Trump's inauguration successful January, the White House said Monday, calling it a "commitment to our antiauthoritarian values" contempt Trump's skipping Biden's ain swearing-in.

Then-President Trump refused to be Biden's inauguration successful 2021, aft falsely claiming Biden’s predetermination triumph was fraudulent and whipping up a mob of supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol.

"The president promised that helium would be the inauguration of whoever won the election," lawman property caput Andrew Bates told reporters flying with Biden connected Air Force One.

"He and the archetypal woman are going to grant that committedness and be the inauguration."

Bates added: "He views that arsenic an important objection of committedness to our antiauthoritarian values and to honoring the volition of the people, arsenic we proceed to supply an orderly and effectual transition."

Despite repeatedly describing Trump arsenic a menace to ideology during the 2024 campaign, Democrat Biden has made a constituent of providing Trump with the creaseless modulation that the Republican denied him.

Biden invited President-elect Trump to the White House the week aft the November 5 vote, successful which Trump bushed Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris to triumph a historical comeback.

Biden, 82, dropped his ain bid for a 2nd word successful July and endorsed Harris aft a disastrous statement show against Trump triggered fears among Democrats astir his property and intelligence acuity.