Where is Joe Biden spending Thanksgiving?

The best part about Thanksgiving is spending quality time with family. US President Joe Biden will also be reviving a longstanding Thanksgiving family tradition and spending the holiday on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts. 

Biden and First Lady Jill Biden reportedly flew into Nantucket Memorial Airport on Tuesday night and will be spending Thanksgiving at the home of a private equity billionaire David Rubenstein, who is the co-founder of the investment firm Carlyle Group. Biden’s extended family, including grandchildren, will also be present. 

“The First Family will stay at the home of their friend, David Rubenstein, as they have done previously,” The White House told reporters on Tuesday. 

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Rubenstein, who is reportedly worth $4.5 billion, will not be in attendance as he is traveling abroad. 

In his 2017 memoir, ” Promise Me, Dad,” Biden had written that Thanksgiving was the first holiday he and Jill spent together. He wrote that the two had several invitations for Thanksgiving at the time but realised that “no matter which family we chose (to spend the holiday with), we were going to hurt somebody’s feelings, which was the last thing either Jill or I wanted to do.”

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“I was in my Senate office one day that fall, explaining this predicament to my chief of staff, and he said, ‘What you need is a nuclear Thanksgiving.’ Meaning the nuclear family alone. Only Wes Barthelmes was a Boston guy, so what he actually said was ‘nucle-aah Thanksgiving.’ I wasn’t sure what exactly he was trying to say, until he explained it might be easiest on everybody if the four of us — me and Jill, Beau and Hunt — went away alone. He suggested the island of Nantucket, which was an hour by ferry south of Cape Cod. Neither Jill nor I had ever been there, but we decided to go ahead and make an adventure of it,” he wrote in the memoir.