Jill Biden's new memoir, "View from the East Wing," details her interactions with Melania Trump.
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The peaceful transfer of power on Inauguration Day is not without the occasional awkwardness.In her new memoir, "View from the East Wing," Jill Biden recalled an uncomfortable car ride with Melania Trump from the White House to the Capitol for Donald Trump's 2025 inauguration.It's customary for the outgoing and incoming presidents to travel together in one car while their spouses ride in a separate vehicle. Jill Biden wrote that inauguration committee member John Bessler, who is married to Sen. Amy Klobuchar, "must have drawn the shortest of all possible straws" to be assigned to accompany the car carrying her and Melania Trump."The presidents' car was likely frosty too, but at least they'd spent considerable time in each other's company," Jill Biden wrote in the memoir, released on June 2. "This would be one of few interactions Melania and I had ever had."'Polite and controlled'
In her memoir, Jill Biden wrote that she's had "few interactions" with Melania Trump.
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