Shortly before the Donald Trump was announced as the winner of the 2024 presidential election, Joe Biden declared that he would be there for the inauguration of the new commander-in-chief.

“This president believes in the peaceful transfer of power, and that’s what you’re going to see this president do,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said. “It’s not about him. It’s about the American people. That’s what the American people need to see regardless of who wins.”

“He certainly is going to partake in that,” she added.

Trump’s decision to skip Biden’s inauguration due to personal disagreements with his running mate, then-President Barack Obama, was not mentioned by the administration spokesperson. Trump had learned that the two of them probably conspired with different government groups to falsely accuse him of “Russian collusion.”

During his four-year reign, which concluded with two impeachments and a rising COVID-19 outbreak that Trump was held responsible for despite the virus’s likely Chinese origin and his administration’s rapid development of a vaccine, some of the same groups worked against him.