Trump Publicly Reveals the Letter Biden Left for Him

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump disclosed the contents of the letter former President Joe Biden had left for him in the Oval Office.
Since former President Ronald Reagan initiated this tradition in 1989, it has been customary for outgoing presidents to leave a note for their successors. Biden’s letter to Trump was placed in a drawer of the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office. Trump reportedly discovered the note on Monday after being asked about it by Fox reporter Peter Doocy, according to Fox News.
“As I take leave of this sacred office, I wish you and your family all the best in the next four years,” Biden’s note read.
“The American people — and people around the world — look to this house for steadiness in the inevitable storms of history, and my prayer is that the coming years will be a time of prosperity, peace, and grace for our nation,” the letter continued.
“May God bless you and guide you as He has blessed and guided our beloved country since our founding,” the letter concluded. It was signed by Biden and dated Monday.
“It was a very nice letter,” Trump commented on Tuesday. “It was a little bit of an inspirational-type letter. Enjoy it, do a good job. Important, very important. How important the job is.”
“It was a positive, for him, in writing it,” Trump added. “I appreciated the letter.”
Despite the cordial tone of the letter, much of Trump’s tenure has been characterized by reversing policies associated with the Biden administration.
For instance, in an executive order on gender, Trump rescinded Biden’s pro-transgender policy.
“Across the country, ideologues who deny the biological reality of sex have increasingly used legal and other socially coercive means to permit men to self-identify as women and gain access to intimate single-sex spaces and activities designed for women, from women’s domestic abuse shelters to women’s workplace showers. This is wrong,” the order stated.
“Efforts to eradicate the biological reality of sex fundamentally attack women by depriving them of their dignity, safety, and well-being. The erasure of sex in language and policy has a corrosive impact not just on women but on the validity of the entire American system. Basing Federal policy on truth is critical to scientific inquiry, public safety, morale, and trust in government itself,” the order continued.
“This unhealthy road is paved by an ongoing and purposeful attack against the ordinary and longstanding use and understanding of biological and scientific terms, replacing the immutable biological reality of sex with an internal, fluid, and subjective sense of self unmoored from biological facts.”
In another executive order, Trump sought to review foreign aid, suspending much of it for 90 days to ensure alignment with his administration’s foreign policy goals.
“The United States foreign aid industry and bureaucracy are not aligned with American interests and in many cases antithetical to American values. They serve to destabilize world peace by promoting ideas in foreign countries that are directly inverse to harmonious and stable relations internal to and among countries,” the order stated.
“It is the policy of the United States that no further United States foreign assistance shall be disbursed in a manner that is not fully aligned with the foreign policy of the President of the United States.”
Trump also signed an executive order banning any efforts to control social media discourse.
“Over the last 4 years, the previous administration trampled free speech rights by censoring Americans’ speech on online platforms, often by exerting substantial coercive pressure on third parties, such as social media companies, to moderate, deplatform, or otherwise suppress speech that the Federal Government did not approve,” the order explained.
“Under the guise of combating ‘misinformation,’ ‘disinformation,’ and ‘malinformation,’ the Federal Government infringed on the constitutionally protected speech rights of American citizens across the United States in a manner that advanced the Government’s preferred narrative about significant matters of public debate.”