Melania Trump's office intervened this week after media reports that she had rejected Jill Biden's invitation to meet at the White House. President-elect Donald Trump, Melania Trump's husband, met President Joe Biden at the White House on Wednesday to discuss a "peaceful and orderly transition" of power.

First lady Jill Biden called her predecessor-turned-soon-to-be successor Melania Trump after the attempt on President-elect Donald Trump’s life this summer. In an interview with Paris Match magazine,

Trump took up President Joe Biden's offer and the rivals were set to meet in the White House at 11 a.m. Wednesday. But Melania Trump did not make her intentions known publicly until hours before the two presidents were scheduled to sit down for a civil confab after a brutal campaign.