{"id":108516,"date":"2025-01-14T21:03:29","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T21:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/michelle-obama-to-skip-trump-inauguration\/"},"modified":"2025-01-14T21:03:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T21:03:29","slug":"michelle-obama-to-skip-trump-inauguration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/michelle-obama-to-skip-trump-inauguration\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Obama to skip Trump inauguration"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-01-14\/Getty_MichelleObama_011425.png\" alt><figcaption>Rob Carr, Pool via AFP via Getty Images, FILE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(WASHINGTON) &#8212; Former first lady Michelle Obama will not attend President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s inauguration on Monday, her office confirmed to ABC News.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Former President Barack Obama is confirmed to attend the 60th Inaugural Ceremonies. Former First Lady Michelle Obama will not attend the upcoming inauguration,&#8221; the Office of Barack and Michelle Obama said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second presidential event in two weeks that the former first lady will have missed. She was noticeably absent from former President Jimmy Carter&#8217;s funeral on Thursday, Jan. 9, at Washington National Cathedral, where she would have been assigned to sit next to Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Michelle Obama&#8217;s planned absence was first reported by the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>Michelle Obama has attended every inauguration since 2009, including Trump&#8217;s first swearing-in ceremony in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton will attend the inauguration, as will former first ladies Laura Bush and Hillary Clinton. They all also attended Carter&#8217;s funeral service.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Carr, Pool via AFP via Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) &#8212; Former first lady Michelle Obama will not attend President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s inauguration on Monday, her office confirmed to ABC News. &#8220;Former President Barack Obama is confirmed to attend the 60th Inaugural Ceremonies. Former First Lady Michelle Obama will not<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/michelle-obama-to-skip-trump-inauguration\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108516"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}