The outgoing president of the USA Joe Biden he stated that “of course” he would attend the inauguration of the president-elect Donald Trump next month, confirming his presence at the ceremony himself, saying he would not follow the Republican’s “childishness” when the latter lost the previous election.

“Of course I’ll show up”Biden said in an interview that aired today on the Meidas Touch network, when asked if he plans to attend the Jan. 20 transition ceremony. “The only president who has avoided attending an inauguration is the guy who is going to be sworn in”he said.

THE White House had been announcing that Biden would attend Trump’s inauguration, but the outgoing president himself had not yet made a statement on the matter.

Trump did not attend Democrat Biden’s inauguration as the 46th president of the USA on January 20, 2021 and it happened like this the first president in 150 years to break with a political tradition seen as affirming the peaceful transfer of power in the US. Trump has never admitted his loss to Biden in the November 3, 2020 presidential election and continues to this day to make baseless allegations of fraud. His refusal to concede defeat led to a chaotic transition of government functions to the Biden administration, delaying funding and access to federal services.

Now, in his own streak, Biden invited Trump to the White House after his Nov. 5 election victory, congratulated him, and the two had a meeting described by the White House as “very cordial”. The Biden administration has been instructed to follow traditional transition procedures.

“The fact that he does not abide by the rules of the democracy we have created is none of my business,” Biden said in the interview on Monday. “My job is to make a transition workable and available.” “The bottom line is that we cannot continue this. We can’t continue this childishness of leaving when you don’t agree and not cooperating.”