{"id":37289,"date":"2025-01-16T01:54:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T07:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=37289"},"modified":"2025-01-16T03:09:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T09:09:40","slug":"michelle-obama-to-skip-trump-inauguration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=37289","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Obama to skip Trump inauguration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Former first lady Michelle Obama will not attend President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s inauguration on Monday, her office confirmed to ABC News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;Former President Barack Obama is confirmed to attend the 60th Inaugural Ceremonies. Former First Lady Michelle Obama will not attend the upcoming inauguration,&#8221; the Office of Barack and Michelle Obama said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">This is the second presidential event in two weeks that the former first lady will have missed. She was noticeably absent from former President Jimmy Carter&#8217;s funeral on Thursday, Jan. 9, at Washington National Cathedral, where she would have been assigned to sit next to Trump.<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/johnson-flags-raised-trumps-inauguration\/story?id=117664890\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/johnson-flags-raised-trumps-inauguration\/story?id=117664890\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Michelle Obama&#8217;s planned absence was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-inauguration-obama-bush-clinton-f7212766dc0f69444d8a4537a736c2d2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">first reported<\/a>&nbsp;by the Associated Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Michelle Obama has attended every inauguration since 2009, including Trump&#8217;s first swearing-in ceremony in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton will attend the inauguration, as will former first ladies Laura Bush and Hillary Clinton. They all also attended Carter&#8217;s funeral service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/michelle-obama-skip-trump-inauguration\/story?id=117667612\">abcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former first lady Michelle Obama will not attend President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s inauguration on Monday, her office confirmed to ABC News. &#8220;Former President Barack Obama is confirmed to attend the 60th Inaugural Ceremonies. Former First Lady Michelle Obama will not attend the upcoming inauguration,&#8221; the Office of Barack and Michelle Obama said in a statement. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":37290,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[31439,28777,2270],"class_list":["post-37289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-inauguration","tag-michelle","tag-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37291,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37289\/revisions\/37291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}