U.S. President Donald Trump says he will not attend his successor, Joe Biden’s inauguration ceremony.
“To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the inauguration on January 20th,” he announced Friday on Twitter.
The decision to skip Biden’s swearing-in ceremony comes after weeks of Trump’s refusal to acknowledge the victory of Biden in the November 3 election.
Recall that Trump finally acknowledged his loss in a video on Thursday, saying that a new administration will take office in January and he will ensure a smooth transition.
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Biden is expected to be sworn in as the 46th President of the United States on January 20 after the U.S. Congress certified his election as the next president of the United States on Thursday.
The certification, a constitutional requirement, was done despite the violence seen in the Capitol building on Jan 6, by mob supporte of Mr Trump.
Biden won 306 electoral votes to Trump’s 232 thus reaching the number of Electoral College votes needed to become the president.
Bloomberg reports that the last president to miss a regularly scheduled inauguration following an election was Woodrow Wilson, who skipped Warren G. Harding’s 1921 ceremony due to health concerns.
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