Trump, who has repeatedly contested
his defeat in the recent election, announced this via Twitter on Friday.
Biden will take over from him on
January 20, 2021, an event which the outgoing president ought to attend as is
often the case.
“To all of those who have asked, I
will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th,” Trump tweeted.
The US president also said in an earlier tweet that those who voted for him in the election “will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form!”
“The 75,000,000 great American
Patriots who voted for me, AMERICA FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, will
have a GIANT VOICE long into the future,” he said.
Trump won’t be the first to miss his
successor’s inauguration though. He follows in the footsteps of Andrew Johnson
and John Adams, both of whom had similar clashes with incoming presidents.
His outburst comes a day after he
agreed to hand over to Biden, but not without repeating his claim that the
election was rigged, even without any evidence of fraud.
Biden won the November 3 election
with 81,283,098 votes after flipping some Republican strongholds, leaving Trump
with 74,222,958 votes.
On December 14, the electoral
college voted just as the states’ ballot went, handing Biden the 306 votes
while Trump got 232 votes.
But despite numerous losses in the
courts where he sought to overturn the election outcome without any evidence of
fraud, Trump insisted that he defeated Biden with “a landslide”.
He had also claimed the election is
the “most fraudulent” in US history and “worse than that of third world
countries”.
Even some of his party officials
have tackled him over his claims of fraud which election officials across the
US said were not true.
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