Trump Isn’t The First President To Snub His Successor’s Inauguration – By Cullen Paradis (IB Times) / January 8 2021
- Donald Trump has announced he will not attend Joe Biden’s inauguration
- Five presidents have missed their successors’ inauguration, three out of spite and two out of necessity
- Both liberals and conservatives applauded the move, with Trump’s supporters maintaining his false narrative of election fraud
Donald Trump has announced that he will not be attending Joe Biden’s inauguration, confirming what many had speculated for months. He did so via a short tweet, characteristic for a president who has recently been mostly AWOL from the platform after being temporarily banned for seemingly encouraging the riots in Washington, D.C.
Outgoing presidents have attended their successor’s inauguration since the very start of the union, but Trump actually wouldn’t be the first to skip the event. A total of five presidents have missed their last ceremony as president: John Adams in 1801, John Quincy Adams in 1829, and Andrew Johnson in 1869 all opted not to attend out of bad blood with their successors, according to the presidential profiles of the late Columbia University historian Henry F. Graff.
President Donald Trump announced he will not attend Joe Biden’s inauguration — the first time since 1869 an outgoing US president will stay away from the swearing-in of his successor Photo: AFP / JIM BOURG)
Richard Nixon and Woodrow Wilson join the list on somewhat better terms, with Nixon having technically missed the swearing-in due to the hurried nature of his departure from office and Wilson forced to miss the event due to his poor health after his presidency.
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