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Michelle Obama signals she’s done with Trump

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15.01.2025

Michelle Obama is done with President-elect Trump, if her decision to skip next week's inauguration means anything.

The former first lady, who once called on Democrats to go high when Trump’s Republican Party goes low, will not be going to the Capitol to watch Trump take the presidential oath for a second time, leaving her husband, former President Obama, to go it alone.

Longtime allies of the former first lady say she is sending a powerful statement by skipping the event.

They say she wants nothing to do with a man undeserving of the presidency and is making no effort to hide her disdain for Trump.

“She meant every word she said on the campaign trail with every fiber of her being,” one ally said. “And she's no hypocrite.”

By not attending the inauguration, the former first lady is “saving some credibility,” one longtime aide to Michelle Obama said.

“She campaigned the hardest against him personally, of anyone,” the aide said.

While she will be the only former first lady not in attendance at Trump’s inauguration, allies say that trend broke during the last inauguration, when Trump and former first lady Melania Trump did not attend President Biden’s ceremony.........

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