Biden will focus throughout the trip on the issues she has championed as first lady, and will also highlight U.S. partnerships in these areas with the countries hosting her.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Monday said he will travel to Paris on Saturday to attend the reopening of the Notre-Dame Cathedral, which was gutted by fire over five years ago, in his first foreign trip since winning the election.

Jill Biden was departing Tuesday on her final solo foreign trip as first lady, a six-day, four-country jaunt through Italy, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar that wraps with her and President-elect Donald Trump joining other dignitaries in Paris to celebrate the reopening of Notre Dame cathedral.

It's the final holiday stretch at the White House for President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, and the theme is “A Season of Peace and Light.”

No amount of cultural infighting, political partisanship or shriveled-heart meanness shall steal the Christmas spirit on the Bidens’ watch. Grinches be gone.

Jill Biden unveiled her final White House Christmas decorations as first lady, centered on the theme "A Season of Peace and Light."