In a Friday tweet Trump stated, "To those who have asked, I won't be going to the Inauguration on January twentieth."
President Donald Trump said Friday he won't go to President-elect Joe Biden's initiation on Jan. 20, undermining his message a day sooner that he would attempt to guarantee a "smooth, efficient and consistent change of intensity" to his replacement.
Trump offered no signs for how he would spent his last hours in office, and will be the main officeholder president since Andrew Johnson to avoid his replacement's swearing-in. Generally, the approaching and active presidents ride to the U.S. State house together for the service, as an image of the country's quiet progress.
Trump's remarks come two days after a fierce horde of his allies involved the Capitol for a few hours as legislators were counting the constituent votes that guaranteed Biden's triumph.
"To those who have asked, I won't be going to the Inauguration on January twentieth," Trump tweeted. The move had been broadly expected, as Trump for quite a long time dishonestly asserted triumph in the political decision and declared unjustifiable cases of citizen extortion. His own organization said the political race had been reasonably run.
VP Mike Pence is as yet expected to go to the introduction.
Biden's progress group had no prompt remark on Trump's declaration. In any case, Jen Psaki, the duly elected president's approaching White House press secretary, said a month ago that whether Trump went to the initiation was not top of brain for Biden