Like a modern von Hindenburg, President Joe Biden, bright white chompers beaming through a big smile, welcomed President-elect Donald Trump to the White House this week.

Sure, the White House will tell you the president was merely respecting the traditions of a peaceful and smooth transition. Only a few weeks earlier, though, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre assured the press that Biden believed the Republican presidential candidate was a “fascist.” Indeed, two years before that, Biden stood in front of the crimson red background in Philadelphia and delivered what was perhaps the most divisive speech in modern presidential history, decrying the rise of “semi-fascism” on the Right.