Warm letter Trump wrote to Biden in 2021 revealed in memoir

Warm letter Trump wrote to Biden in 2021 revealed in memoir President Donald Trump praised Joe Biden as a president he believed “will be true to yourself and the American people” in a letter he left Biden upon leaving the White House in January 2021. The two-page letter, which has been kept private for almost six years, will be published in Biden’s upcoming memoir “Promise Me, America.” “Many presidents have come and gone who simply governed as Republicans or Democrats,” Trump wrote, according to a copy seen by the Associated Press. “Largely, they did not change history, they were just swept along in its relentless tide. This will not happen to you because I know how much you love the American people.” The warm tone marks a sharp contrast to Trump’s public comments in the months prior, in which he attacked Biden and falsely claimed the 2020 election was stolen from him. The letter, addressed “To ‘46,’” referencing Biden as the 46th president, was handwritten in black Sharpie on White House stationery. At the time, Biden described it as “very generous,” but declined to reveal its contents. The letter continued a tradition started by President Ronald Reagan in 1989. Biden returned the gesture and left Trump a letter before leaving office in 2025.