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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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David Smith in Washington

Back to the future as Obama sprinkles some stardust on Biden White House

Joe Biden fist-bumps Barack Obama after Biden signed an executive order aimed at strengthening the Affordable Care Act.
Joe Biden fist-bumps Barack Obama after Biden signed an executive order aimed at strengthening the Affordable Care Act. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

It was Back to the Future at the White House. Starring Barack Obama as Marty McFly and Joe Biden as Doc Brown. And ignoring Donald Trump as Biff Tannen, a four-year rupture in the space-time continuum.

Obama returned to the White House on Tuesday for the first time since the bleak winter morning in January 2017 when he departed it alongside Trump, who seemed intent on erasing the first Black president.

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