Only seven former US presidents did not attend the event, violating a democratic norm
Donald Trump, the first US president to have been impeached twice, refuses to attend president-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration this Wednesday.
He is one of seven US presidents ever to have done so, joining the company of John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren, Andrew Johnson, Woodrow Wilson, and most recently, Richard Nixon. Wilson had had a stroke and Nixon had resigned. Presidents have seldom rejected this norm of attendance, usually seen as an important symbol of the peaceful transition of power.
Like a three-year-old staging a tantrum because it’s not his birthday.
“Trump has asked for a major send-off on Inauguration Day next week,” reports CNN.