President Biden said he has instructed President-elect Trump not to try to settle the matter in their first meeting to begin the presidential transition process after Trump’s victory.

“When Trump was elected, I was very candid with him. In an interview with USA Today’s Susan Page, Biden mentioned the Nov. 13 meeting, saying, “I “I immediately invited him to the White House. I spent two hours with him.”

“I tried to make it clear that there was no need for that, but it was counterintuitive to his interests to go back and try to settle things,” the president added.

Biden said he didn’t get a clear answer from Trump on how to settle the score.

“He didn’t say, ‘No, I’m going to…'” the president told Page, “He didn’t step it up. He basically just listened.” spoke.

He also recalled praising President-elect Trump’s efforts, especially in the economic field.

“He was very complimentary about some of the economic work I had done,” the president said of Trump, adding, “He thought I would leave office on a good note.”

President Trump said Monday that Biden is complicating the presidential transition, citing recent executive orders on climate change and other public actions taken by his administration in his final weeks as president.

Just two weeks before President Trump took office, Biden blocked new drilling in California, Oregon and Washington, as well as across the East Coast and off the coast of Alaska in parts of the northern Bering Sea. announced that it would block some drilling. Located in the eastern Gulf of Mexico.

President Trump vowed to rescind Biden’s order after Biden pledged during his campaign to boost domestic energy production.

Despite the president-elect’s claims that the Biden White House is not helping during the transition, incoming chief of staff Susie Wiles said that’s not the case. He said in an interview with Axios published Monday that the White House helped him through the transition process.

Wiles praised the support of Biden’s chief of staff, Jeff Zients, who he said “helped me navigate the labyrinth that is the Oval Office” and was “very professional.”

Mr. Wiles and Mr. Zaientz also attended the White House meeting between Mr. Biden and Mr. Trump.