{"id":46372,"date":"2021-01-08T19:07:03","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T23:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=46372"},"modified":"2021-01-08T19:07:03","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T23:07:03","slug":"trump-i-wont-attend-joe-bidens-inauguration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=46372","title":{"rendered":"Trump: I Won&#8217;t Attend Joe Biden&#8217;s Inauguration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->By Newsmax Wires<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump says he won\u2019t attend President-elect Joe Biden\u2019s Inauguration on Jan. 20.<\/p>\n<p>In a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1347569870578266115\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweet Friday morning<\/a>, Trump announced:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He did not indicate what he would be doing instead on that day.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters, citing unnamed sources, said he is expected to head to Florida a day before Inauguration Day.<\/p>\n<p>The move would make Trump the first incumbent president since Andrew Johnson to skip his successors inauguration.<\/p>\n<p>Vice President Mike Pence\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/politics\/pence-biden-inauguration-attend\/2021\/01\/07\/id\/1004717\/\">reportedly will make an appearance<\/a> at the inauguration.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2021 Newsmax. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/headline\/trump-biden-inauguration\/2021\/01\/08\/id\/1004789\/\">https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/headline\/trump-biden-inauguration\/2021\/01\/08\/id\/1004789\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}