Pelosi skips out on Trump inauguration days after Michelle Obama backs out Former House Speaker has a notoriously frosty relationship with Trump, who has mocked her as ‘Crazy Nancy’.
Trump previously branded her “Crazy Nancy,” while Pelosi famously tore up a copy of Trump’s State of the Union speech in 2020.
News of Pelosi’s absence from Monday’s ceremony, first reported by ABC News, comes just days after former first lady Michelle Obama announced she would also not be in attendance.
Senior leaders of both parties typically attend presidential inaugurations, though Trump snubbed Joe Biden at his ceremony in 2021 – becoming the first president to refuse to not attend a successor’s swearing-in since 1869.
Nancy Pelosi has become the latest Democratic Party heavyweight to announce that they will not attend Donald Trump’s inauguration next week.
