- Jill Biden's memoir, “A View from the East Wing,” describes a tense encounter with Melania Trump during the inauguration.
- The customary limousine ride to the U.S. Capitol for the two first ladies was marked by significant awkwardness and a frosty atmosphere.
- Biden suggests the tension arose from Melania Trump blaming Joe Biden for the FBI search of her private spaces at Mar-a-Lago.
- An inauguration committee member's attempt to break the ice by asking about Barron Trump's school was met with a brief reply, as Melania Trump tried to steer the conversation to the weather.
- Biden also recounts her distress over the subsequent changes made to the White House East Wing, describing them as a “symbolic bulldozing of history.”
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