{"id":4886,"date":"2025-01-14T17:18:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T17:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/michelle-obama-will-skip-trumps-second-inauguration\/"},"modified":"2025-01-14T17:18:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T17:18:40","slug":"michelle-obama-will-skip-trumps-second-inauguration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/michelle-obama-will-skip-trumps-second-inauguration\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Obama will skip Trump&#8217;s second inauguration"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Former First Lady Michelle Obama won\u2019t be attending Monday\u2019s inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, according to a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is obviously not the outcome we had hoped for, given our profound disagreements with the Republican ticket on a whole host of issues,\u201d former President Barack Obama said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/f\/?id=00000194-65b2-d741-a3dc-6db2f4230001\" target=\"_blank\"><u>statement announcing Michelle&#8217;s decision not to attend<\/u><\/a>. &#8220;In a country as big and diverse as ours, we won\u2019t always see eye-to-eye on everything. But progress requires us to extend good faith and grace \u2013 even to people with whom we deeply disagree.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The news follows the former first lady declining to attend former President Jimmy Carter\u2019s funeral, an event that would have sat her next to Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The former president said he plans to attend the inauguration. During Carter&#8217;s funeral, he sat next to Trump and their chit-chat ahead of services went viral.<\/p>\n<p>Obama said it\u2019s important \u201cto accept the peaceful transfer of power\u201d and he congratulated Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz for running \u201ca remarkable campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former First Lady Michelle Obama won\u2019t be attending Monday\u2019s inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, according to a statement. \u201cThis is obviously not the outcome we had hoped for, given our profound disagreements with the Republican ticket on a whole host of issues,\u201d former President Barack Obama said in a statement announcing Michelle&#8217;s decision not to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}