Former Presidents Obama, Clinton and Bush won't attend Trump's inaugural lunch
Source: Yahoo! News/NBC News
Wed, January 15, 2025 at 11:15 PM EST
Former Presidents Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush will not attend President-elect Donald Trump's traditional inaugural lunch. Obama received an invitation but declined to attend, according to a source familiar with the matter. Clinton also was invited but does not plan to attend, according to a second source familiar with the matter, while Bush's office said it was not tracking an invitation to the luncheon.
Former Secretary of State and first lady Hillary Clinton also received an invitation to the inaugural luncheon but will not attend, according to a third source familiar with the matter. A spokesperson for Trumps transition team did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the absences.
All three former presidents, however, will attend Trump's swearing-in ceremony earlier in the day, according to their teams. The former first ladies will also attend the swearing-in ceremony except for Michelle Obama, according to the Obamas office. No reason was provided. Michelle Obama also did not attend the funeral service last week for former President Jimmy Carter, making hers the only absence among all living current and former presidents and first ladies.
Inauguration Day is one of the only occasions when all former living presidents usually congregate to usher in the next administration. Trump, however, declined to attend President Joe Biden's inauguration in 2021. None of the living former presidents supported Trump's candidacy. Bush did not make an endorsement, and Obama and Clinton actively campaigned for Vice President Kamala Harris.
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Deep State Witch
(11,455 posts)Topped with a heaping pile of bullshit.
Autumn
(46,862 posts)displacedvermoter
(3,389 posts)Wild blueberry
(7,307 posts)Their duty as former presidents, to show demonstrate peaceful transfer of power--and thereby illuminating the contrast to the rapist, convicted felon, insurrectionist grifter asshole.
displacedvermoter
(3,389 posts)Wild blueberry
(7,307 posts)It does show everyone else, including around the world.
displacedvermoter
(3,389 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(51,817 posts)question everything
(49,288 posts)Joinfortmill
(16,813 posts)FakeNoose
(36,213 posts)Why should they socialize with a treasonous, convict a-hole, if they don't have to?
I don't blame them for skipping the lunch. This is exactly the treatment Chump deserves.
Vinca
(51,372 posts)travelingthrulife
(1,132 posts)I know he's brainless, but that's pretty easy.
Polybius
(18,703 posts)He has hammered Bush since he announced he was running for President in 1999.
maxsolomon
(35,491 posts)his "team" is not "tracking" an invite.
endgenocide
(135 posts)Lunch fuck the lunch they shouldn't attend the Inauguration, Biden shouldn't go either. Diaper Don didn't show the respect for the office to attend Biden's inauguration why not show him the same?
robbob
(3,653 posts)I dont see why ANY former presidents should attend that POSs inauguration. And the media will squeal about it while totally forgetting that it was dump himself who set the precedent.
calimary
(84,851 posts)donald the deviant.
it was dump himself who set the precedent.
How bout that for leadership.
ancianita
(39,080 posts)much different from the felon's and his oligarchic owners -- they will be there to honor the tradition of honoring the constitutional oath and office, and not the man.
Blue Full Moon
(1,422 posts)LPBBEAR
(409 posts)"All three former presidents, however, will attend Trump's swearing-in ceremony earlier in the day, according to their teams. The former first ladies will also attend the swearing-in ceremony except for Michelle Obama, according to the Obamas office."
When these people start walking the talk I'll be impressed. Until then they are just normalizing the obscene.
Maggiemayhem
(861 posts)erodriguez
(790 posts)LaMouffette
(2,322 posts)the Covid lockdown (as most of us did), and I can just imagine how she is feeling during this heart-wrenching, impending-doom moment in American history. I don't blame her at all for not wanting to show up at any event where the monster will also be in attendance.
Michelle, here is wishing you all the very best and sending you my love and heartfelt gratitude!
CTyankee
(65,450 posts)place) that they could go to and get away from it all for a while. It's pretty much deserted this time of year but some folks like to escape to it. Walks on the beach....I could see that as restorative for her. Her daughters might be there with her.
LaMouffette
(2,322 posts)hatred among his cult members and direct it toward such kind and compassionate people as Michelle and Barack Obama, Joe and Kamala, Nancy Pelosi, Dr. Fauci, and more.
BumRushDaShow
(145,331 posts)(this is a property that they had for awhile and is different from the one they had stayed out during that administration)
riversedge
(73,752 posts)But hope is eternal!!
riversedge
(73,752 posts)keithbvadu2
(40,813 posts)One table for all three.