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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHas any POTUS skipped going to the inauguration of the next POTUS
or will tRump be the first to do this if he loses? This applies to POTUSes who were living at the time of the inauguration.
shelshaw
(533 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,608 posts)RockRaven
(14,972 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,662 posts)shelshaw
(533 posts)moonscape
(4,673 posts)I know he won't. On the one hand, I don't want to have to look at him. On the other, seeing how miserable he is, and how humiliated he feels, would have its up side. I think the former wins though, not seeing him would be best and for a moment, allow me to forget he even exists on the planet.
Grokenstein
(5,723 posts)I don't want him to go--but I would LOVE to watch a live feed of him watching it in his cell.
moonscape
(4,673 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,608 posts)while he is in his prison cell.
MLAA
(17,298 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,608 posts)when Obama made a joke and the big baby couldn't take it.
tblue37
(65,394 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,208 posts)liberal N proud
(60,335 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,608 posts)maybe that will be tRump's excuse even though it isn't quite the same.
C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)And if wants to go out as a petulant idiot, well that's how history will memorialize him.
Timewas
(2,195 posts)Because he is in jail, bur doubt that will ever happen he will leave and retire with all the trimmiings
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)csziggy
(34,136 posts)I don't want to see him at the inauguration - I'm afraid he would act like he did at the first debate, interrupting and talking over everyone else. And remember how mean he was to Melania?
I wonder what he does to her when he is on the losing side?
TheBlackAdder
(28,208 posts).
Well, besides the petulant child in him, he might be the center of attention in ways he doesn't want.
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LeftInTX
(25,365 posts)lastlib
(23,243 posts)I have a vague memory that Andrew Johnson didn't attend Grant's inauguration in 1869, but couldn't give you details.
BigmanPigman
(51,608 posts)"Only three incumbent presidents have refused to accompany the president-elect: John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and Andrew Johnson."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_inauguration#:~:text=Only%20three%20incumbent%20presidents%20have,Quincy%20Adams%2C%20and%20Andrew%20Johnson.
You may pick up your lifetime supply of Rice-a-roni on your way out. Congrats!
lastlib
(23,243 posts)me.
UTUSN
(70,706 posts)marlakay
(11,471 posts)And we can all try really hard to pretend the last 4 yrs was one long horrible nightmare.
liberal N proud
(60,335 posts)As well as Hillary most likely
dsc
(52,162 posts)had to be convinced to go to Ike's. But other than the three mentioned (both Adams and Andrew Johnson) no one else has skipped out.