Michelle Obama skipped former President Jimmy Carter’s memorial service last week, and now she is skipping Donald Trump‘s Inauguration on Jan. 20.
Former President Barack Obama will attend Trump’s Inaugural Ceremonies, but his wife Michelle Obama won’t be with him.
President Joe Biden and former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton have confirmed they will attend the inauguration.
There is speculation that Mrs. Obama won’t attend Trump’s inauguration because she despises the President-elect.
Mrs. Obama previously said that attending Trump’s 2017 inauguration was not an enjoyable experience for her.
During an emotional speech at a rally for Kamala Harris in Michigan in October, Michelle Obama said Trump was an “existential threat” to women’s rights. She told Black men that a vote for Trump “is a vote against us.”
In her speech, the former first lady expressed her fear and agony over Trump’s possible return to the White House.
Her voice trembled and she nearly broke down in tears as she implored women – “and the men who love us” – to vote for Harris.
“Please, please do not hand our fates over to the likes of Trump, who knows nothing about us, who has shown deep contempt for us,” Obama said. “Because a vote for him is a vote against us, against our health, against our worth.”
Trump broke with White House tradition when he declined to attend Biden’s Inauguration in January 2021.
Trump was the first U.S. president to refuse to attend the inauguration of his successor in 152 years.
