Obama returned to the White House on Tuesday for the first time since the gloomy winter morning of January 2017, when he left the White House with Trump, who appeared to intend to oust the first black president. As a star student returning to his old school, proud and glamorous with career achievements, the 44th President of the United States welcomed staff who are likely to be very polite to mention his ever-gray hair. He was hosted in the Oval Office by the protégé who happens to be 19 years older than him. They ate lunch, just like they did when Obama was in charge and Biden was vice president. “We were not sure who had to sit where,” the 46th president later said with a smile. What did they say? Trump? Ukraine? Biden’s lucky departure from Afghanistan? Hopefully, the debate was less uncomfortable than their meals in 2015, when Obama, having anointed Hillary Clinton as his successor, gently prevented Biden from running for president. “The president was not encouraging,” Biden wrote in his memoir, Promise Me, Dad. Who knows if Biden would have beaten Trump in 2016, but he did it four years later and so he finally won the throne. Now that his acceptance score has been recorded, it is time to ask for a favor and a gift from his old boss. Obama’s signed health care bill was not politically popular at the time and led to a Republican purge in the 2010 midterm elections. But now the Affordable Care Act is an issue and Biden needs a political push before from his own trial period. In the East Room – the Rose Garden was canceled due to rain – he had Obama talk about the law and how many people he had helped before Biden signed an executive order to strengthen it. It was also an exercise in nostalgia for this (seemingly) simple pre-Trump, pre-Brexit, pre-pandemic, pre-George W. Floyd assassination, the pre-war world of Ukraine, when the definition of conflict sometimes it was none other than the president wearing a tan suit. Barack Obama listens to President Joe Biden’s speech in the east room of the White House on Tuesday. Photo: Carolyn Kaster / AP “Vice President Biden,” Obama began on a podium bearing the presidential seal, causing loud laughter from the public. Obama added: “That was a joke!” He approached Biden, shook his hand, bent down and stroked his back. Biden applauded. Obama added: “It was all set up. “My president, Joe Biden.” Not that any clarification will stop Fox News, QAnon fans, and Internet conspiracy theorists from claiming it as proof that Obama is still running the administration. Obama, who has since been involved in television production and memoir writing, continued: “It’s good to be back in the White House. It’s been a long time. “I confess that I heard that some changes were made by the current president since the last time I was here.” Recognizing Biden’s trend for shades and ice cream, Obama continued: “Obviously intelligence agents need to wear aviator goggles now. Naval chaos has been replaced by a Baskin Robbins. And there is a cat running around which I guarantee Bo and Sunny [his pet dogs] he would be very unhappy. “But coming back – even though I have to wear a tie, something I do very rarely these days – gives me the opportunity to visit some of the incredible people who serve this White House and who serve this country every day, a lot. times away from the limelight “. He described Biden as “a great friend and partner who has been with me for eight years”, adding: “Joe Biden and I did a lot together. The East Room erupted in applause and screams. Vice President Kamala Harris, standing on the stage, turned to Biden and applauded him. Obama went off a list, from saving the world economy to repealing the homophobic law on LGBTQ military members, “but nothing made me more proud than providing better health care and protection for millions of people across it. Country”. Trump was never mentioned, but Obama said with a laugh: “It is fair to say that many Republicans have shown little interest in working with us to get things done. It is fair to say that. ” Republicans have tried in vain to repeal the Affordable Care Act over and over and over again, he noted. Barack Obama hugs Vice President Kamala Harris. Photo: Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images And America has become more divided since Obama ousted him. He continued a little angry: “I am a private individual now. “But I am still more interested in a temporary interest in the course of our democracy.” He shook hands and hugged Biden again, who went to the podium and played his part. “My name is Joe Biden and I am the Vice President of Barack Obama,” he said with a laugh. “Welcome back to the White House, man. It feels like the good old days. “ However, in the early days of his presidency, it seemed that Biden’s ambitions would outweigh those of Obama. He devised a sweeping social, economic and climate agenda that led critics to suggest that Obama thought too young. Much of it, however, has been established, as political gravity has brought Biden back to earth. On Tuesday, it turned out that he finally needed some of Obama’s magic. After signing the executive order at a tiny table, 46 turned and handed the pen to 44. The couple smiled and exchanged a fist and all that was missing was a rendition of The Way We Were. Could it all have been so simple then? Or has time rewritten each line? If we had the chance to do it all again, Tell me, would we do it? We could;