By JOHN KANELIS / johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com

I am delighted that the Donald Trump administration has begun the official transition to the Joe Biden administration.

There. It has begun. The General Services Administration has instructed the Trump team to begin working with the Biden team. That means a lot of things are going to happen in rapid succession.

Now, does it matter that Donald Trump continues to refuse to talk about losing the presidential election to President-elect Biden? Not … one … bit. Not even a little bit. It doesn’t matter to me in the least that Trump won’t concede, that he won’t admit to losing his re-election bid.

The GSA directive, which no doubt came with Trump’s blessing, means that the Trump administration is picking up the pace on its way out the door.

To which I say, “Wonderful! Hooray!”

There is not a word in the U.S. Constitution that says an outgoing president must concede. There’s no law on the books. It’s just been a tried-and-true presidential custom. Elections come and go. The loser concedes and calls the winner, who then makes a speech and tells us that he has just spoken with his opponent and offered his congratulations for waging a tough campaign. Then the winner makes his speech. He offers similar congratulations to the losing candidate.

That isn’t going to happen, more than likely, in this campaign. President-elect Biden already has declared victory. He didn’t need a concession to state the obvious: that he got more votes than Trump.

The big news rests with the GSA and its decision to let the transition begin officially, in earnest, for real.

That is all we need to hear. I will now watch with intense interest as President-elect Biden prepares to be become President Biden.