Trump Not to Attend Inauguration

 So, earlier this morning, Mr. Trump tweeted he was not going to Mr. Biden's inauguration. 

I am not shocked and neither should you be. Speculation was for a long time he was going to be at his resort in Scotland. That was until the Scottish Government would not let anyone in to a golf course from outside the nation during a pandemic. Even an outgoing US President. 

A president not attending another president's swearing in ceremony is not unprecedented. 

-The first time was in 1801 when John Adams lost to Thomas Jefferson in what was a bitter campaign. Adams people even accused Jefferson of teachers to teach " Incest, Rape, and French like Rebellion" in which the streets will " Run with blood."

This election was also marred with the first confusion concerning the Electoral College. It was so confusing and complicated, Aaron Burr who received as many electoral votes as the presidential candidates, pushed Congress to elect him president. ( Burr was running for vice-president)( Electoral vote was a tie)

The entire incident resulted in the 12th Amendment to the Constitution in which the US President and Vice President received separate electoral votes. 

Adams left town at 4am in a wagon to avoid Jefferson.

- The second time was in 1829. 

John Quincy Adams won the Presidential Election in 1824 even though he did not receive the most electoral votes. Andrew Jackson had the most electoral votes, but Jackson did not receive enough to win the election. 

The election went to the US House to " Break the Tie," and in a political move in which the Speaker of the House, Henry Clay was promised the job of Sec. of State, Clay tossed his support behind Adams, thus getting him enough votes in the House to become president. 

Adams and Jackson ran against one another again in 1828 and this time Jackson received enough electoral votes to win outright. 

Jackson, bitter because of the Election of 1824, refused to speak to Adams 4 years later about the upcoming inauguration. 

To avoid any conflict, Adams left town the day before Jackson was sworn it. 

- The third time was in 1869

Andrew Johnson, the first president to be impeached had become US President after Lincoln's assassination. 

Because of his constant fights with the US Congress, Johnson was not given the Republican nomination in 1868. It went instead to US Grant, Union General.

Bitter, Johnson refused to attend newly elected President-elect U.S. Grant's inauguration, instead staying at the White House saying he was signing " legislation."

Johnson left as the Grant's were coming in the door of the White House. ( He snuck out the back.)

So not going to an inauguration is nothing new.