This is reportedly why Michelle Obama is skipping Trump’s inauguration
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It was confirmed this week that former first lady would not attend the president-elect’s inauguration but her office did not give any further explanation. “There’s no overstating her feelings about [Trump]. She’s not one to plaster on a pleasant face and pretend for protocol’s sake,” the source reportedly told the outlet. “Michelle doesn’t do anything because it’s expected or it’s protocol or it’s tradition.”.
![[Barack Obama and Donald Trump appeared to get along at Jimmy Carter’s funeral, which Michelle Obama also skipped]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/15/19/2192480195.jpg)
“She would be expected to swallow her feelings in the spotlight if she attended his second inauguration,” the outlet reported. Obama, who served as first lady from 2008 to 2016, “doesn’t feel the need to be a public figure anymore,” according to PEOPLE’s source.
After snubbing President Joe Biden’s inauguration in 2021, Trump became the first president to refuse to attend a successor’s swearing-in since 1869. Obama attended Trump’s first inauguration in 2017 and later shared the difficulty of sitting in the audience as he was sworn in.
“To sit on that stage and watch the opposite of what we represented on display, there was no diversity, there was no color on that stage,” she said on her show The Light Podcast in 2023. “There was no reflection of the broader sense of America. Many people took pictures of me and they’re like, you weren’t in a good mood. No, I was not.”.
