Both Trump and Biden have thrown sharp verbal barbs at each other over the years. But it was soft voices and smiles in the Oval Office.

President-elect Donald Trump and President Biden are meeting at the White House on Wednesday as part of the transition process, a formality that Trump skipped in 2020. Melania Trump will not meet first lady Jill Biden, although the first ladies do traditionally meet. Melania Trump met with Michelle Obama in 2016.

President Joe Biden will meet for a final time this week with Chinese President Xi Jinping as he prepares to hand over power — and the reins of the world’s most consequential bilateral relationship — to president-elect Trump in January.

The last time Donald Trump was in the Oval Office, he scrawled out a two-page letter to Joe Biden in his distinctive jagged penmanship, slipped it into the drawer of the Resolute Desk and — notwithstanding the note’s surprisingly gracious tone — walked away from the building defeated and bitter.

Melania Trump's office on Wednesday responded to her declining an invitation to meet with first lady Jill Biden at the White House. President-elect Donald Trump, Melania Trump 's husband, is meeting President Joe Biden at the White House today to discuss a "peaceful and orderly transition" of power.

President Biden met Wednesday with the families of American hostages still held by Hamas in Gaza, as the Biden administration says it stands ready to work with the incoming Trump administration toward the common goal of securing their release.

“I don’t think we were clear enough by saying fewer people came in under President Joe Biden than came under Donald Trump.”

Just over a week after his election victory, former and future President Trump returns to the White House on Wednesday to meet in the Oval Office with outgoing President Biden.

The former president, now a convicted criminal but also president-elect, returned to the White House 46 months after leaving in disgrace.

President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump met at White House for nearly two hours. Keep up with live updates from the USA TODAY Network.

President Biden and former President Trump will appear together at the White House on Wednesday around 11:00 am. Trump met earlier this morning with House Republicans as Senate Republicans gathered to select the next Majority Leader.