The previous first girl didn’t attend a state funeral for former President Jimmy Carter this month.
Former first girl Michelle Obama is not going to attend President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration ceremony in Washington on Jan. 20, and former President Barack Obama will attend.
“Former President Barack Obama is confirmed to attend the sixtieth Inaugural Ceremonies. Former first girl Michelle Obama is not going to attend the upcoming inauguration,” mentioned an announcement from the workplace of Barack and Michelle Obama on Tuesday. No cause was supplied within the assertion.
The previous first girl didn’t attend the state funeral of former President Jimmy Carter earlier this month. All of the dwelling former presidents and vice presidents attended it apart from former Vice President Dick Cheney.
Michelle Obama, in the meantime, was the one partner absent from the service final week at Washington Nationwide Cathedral, the place her husband and Trump had been seated subsequent to one another and chatted with one another.
All three former presidents and their wives attended Trump’s first inauguration in January 2017, together with Hillary Clinton after she misplaced the 2016 presidential election to Trump. Carter additionally attended the occasion.
On Jan. 18, fireworks and a reception will probably be held at Trump’s golf course in Sterling, Virginia, and a day later, Trump will lay a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Virginia’s Arlington Nationwide Cemetery, the place members of the navy are buried.
In a while Jan. 19, Trump will maintain a rally on the Capital One Area in Washington, his first since successful the presidency in November, amongst different occasions that day, in response to the schedule.
A day later, on Jan. 20, Trump will head to service at St. John’s Church in Washington. At midday, Trump will take the oath of workplace on the U.S. Capitol, with Chief Justice John Roberts presiding over the occasion.
“I do solemnly swear [or affirm] that I’ll faithfully execute the Workplace of President of the US, and can to one of the best of my means, protect, defend, and defend the Structure of the US,” Trump is anticipated to say.
Amongst different occasions on Jan. 20, Trump can even overview the U.S. navy’s troops, maintain a parade down Pennsylvania Avenue, and maintain a signing ceremony close to the Senate chamber.
“We’re not presently monitoring any particular or credible threats to the inaugural ceremony or to the Capitol complicated,” FBI particular agent David Sundberg mentioned in a Monday information convention. “We’ll proceed to work carefully with our companions to share data and establish and disrupt any menace that will emerge.”
The inauguration committee planning the occasion, headed by Trump’s incoming Center East envoy Steve Witkoff and former Sen. Kelly Loeffler, mentioned that Trump is “devoted to uniting the nation by way of the power, safety, and alternative of his America First agenda.”
“The 2025 inaugural celebrations will replicate President-elect Trump’s historic return to the White Home and the American individuals’s decisive vote to Make America Nice Once more,” Witkoff and Loeffler mentioned of their assertion.
The Related Press contributed to this report.