Former first girl Michelle Obama is ready to snub President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration subsequent Monday after skipping former President Jimmy Carter’s funeral final week — the place she would have sat subsequent to the one and future commander in chief.
“Former President Barack Obama is confirmed to attend the 60th Inaugural Ceremonies. Former first lady Michelle Obama will not attend the upcoming inauguration,” the Workplace of Barack and Michelle Obama mentioned in a press release to the Related Press.
The previous first girl’s group didn’t present a motive for skipping the inauguration, however Michelle Obama, 60, has been an impassioned critic of Trump, 78, over the previous eight years.
The place was Michelle?
On Jan. 9, Michelle was a notable no-show to Carter’s funeral at Washington Nationwide Cathedral, with CNN reporting she had opted to remain “in Hawaii on an extended holiday vacation” as an alternative.
Her advisers formally chalked up her absence to a scheduling problem, however didn’t present additional particulars.
Her husband, former President Barack Obama, sat subsequent to Trump on the funeral and was noticed on digital camera laughing and bantering along with his successor, drawing worldwide headlines.
All different former presidents and their spouses are anticipated to attend the Jan. 20 inauguration ceremony, together with George W. and Laura Bush, Invoice and Hillary Clinton, and Joe and Jill Biden.
Each Michelle and Barack Obama attended Trump’s first inauguration in January 2017.
The previous first girl’s antipathy in opposition to Trump was on show throughout the 2024 marketing campaign, during which she and her husband campaigned for Vice President Kamala Harris.
Regardless of coining the aphorism “When they go low, we go high,” Michelle Obama took swipes at Trump’s wealth, his demeanor in the direction of girls and his perspective in the direction of minorities. She additionally pleaded with males to again Vice President Kamala Harris.
“I am asking y’all, from the core of my being, to take our lives seriously,” she mentioned at one rally for Harris this previous fall.
Each Donald and Melania Trump skipped President Biden’s inauguration in January 2021 because the soon-to-be forty seventh president argued that the 2020 election had been stolen from him.
The Publish contacted the Trump transition group for remark.
