Former first girl Michelle Obama won’t be attending Donald Trump’s inauguration, her workplace stated Tuesday.
“Former President Barack Obama is confirmed to attend the sixtieth Inaugural Ceremonies. Former first girl Michelle Obama won’t attend the upcoming inauguration,” the assertion stated.
No motive was given for her absence.
Michelle Obama additionally didn’t attend the funeral service final week for former President Jimmy Carter. Barack Obama, George W. and Laura Bush and Bill and Hillary Clinton had been in attendance, as had been President Joe Biden and Jill Biden and President-elect Trump and Melania Trump.
Michelle Obama has attended each inauguration since her husband’s in 2009, together with Trump’s inauguration when he succeeded Obama in 2017. It was not an expertise she loved, she acknowledged in her “The Light Podcast” in 2023.
“[T]right here was no range, there was no colour on that stage. There was no reflection of the broader sense of America. Many individuals took photos of me and so they’re like, you weren’t in a very good temper. No, I used to be not,” she stated.
