Donald Trump announces he will not be attending Joe Biden’s inauguration

Outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump announced today, Friday, that he will not attend the inauguration and swearing-in of President-elect Joe Biden on January 20th.

In one of the few tweets he has posted since Twitter reactivated his account, Trump wrote, “To all who have asked, I will not go to the Inauguration on January 20.”

Trump will thus become the first incumbent president since Andrew Johnson, who was in office from 1865 to 1869, will not attend the inauguration of his successor.

In a previous tweet, Trump sent a message to his followers: “The 75,000,000 great American patriots who voted for me, UNITED STATES FIRST and MAKE GREAT UNITED STATES AGAIN, will have a GIANT VOICE in the future “.

“They will not be disrespected nor will they be treated unfairly in any way, manner or form!” He added.

Trump yesterday acknowledged, for the first time, his defeat in the November election and condemned the assault on the Capitol on Wednesday by his supporters, a fact for which he has been blamed for harassing them with his unfounded allegations. of electoral fraud before it happened.

In that message, Trump assured that those of his supporters who committed crimes in the assault on Congress, in which there were five dead, including a police officer, “will pay for it.”

Trump has spent the past two months, since the election results were known, denouncing election irregularities and an alleged fraud that has not been proven.