Former Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, is not going to attend President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday, her spokesperson confirmed to Each day Kos.
Pelosi is the second big-name Democrat to announce that they received’t attend. Earlier this week, former first woman Michelle Obama mentioned she additionally plans to skip the occasion, which is able to happen on Monday. Different Democratic lawmakers who will play hooky that day embrace Reps. Jasmine Crockett of Texas, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts.
Pelosi’s spokesperson didn’t elaborate on why she received’t make the pilgrimage to the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., this go-around. Her absence could also be as a result of Pelosi remains to be recovering from hip surgical procedure she underwent in Germany following a fall in December. It’s additionally potential that, like most Democrats, she simply hates Trump.
Nobody would blame her if that had been the case. The 2 have lengthy had a tumultuous skilled relationship. Since Trump’s first administration, their disdain for each other has seemingly solely elevated. Pelosi famously spent the ultimate days of Trump’s first time period making an attempt to oust him from the Oval Workplace after the Jan. 6, 2021, revolt on the U.S. Capitol.
Trump, for his half, spent a lot of his first time period avoiding Pelosi, even because the COVID-19 pandemic ravaged states and lawmakers tried to work collectively to ship assist.
Since then, Trump has referred to as Pelosi “crazy,” “crooked,” “evil,” and “sick,” amongst different abhorrent issues. In November, he practically referred to as her a bitch throughout a marketing campaign rally, although he stopped himself from saying the phrase outright.
Donald Trump speaks throughout a marketing campaign rally on July 29, 2023, in Erie, Pennsylvania.
“She’s a bad person, evil. She’s an evil, sick, crazy—” Trump mentioned at a rally in Michigan amid his 2024 marketing campaign, sounding out the letter “B” however stopping simply in need of uttering the obscenity. “It starts with a ‘B,’ but I won’t say it. I wanna say it.”
Senior leaders of each events sometimes attend presidential inaugurations, whatever the incoming president’s get together. However Trump has no room to complain about Pelosi’s absence: He famously skipped President Joe Biden’s inauguration in 2021.
In actuality, Trump most likely received’t discover that Pelosi’s gone. He’ll be too busy making an attempt to impress his trio of tech-bro sugar daddies—Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg—who’ve been rewarded with plum seats on the inauguration. (All three males additionally donated no less than $1 million to Trump’s inaugural fund.)
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