President Trump will be leaving D.C. on Marine One before flying to his primary residence of Florida for a 2024 campaign rally, in part of an elaborate scheme to upstage Biden’s inauguration next month.
What We Know:
- According to Axios, President Trump is reportedly considering an extravagant, obnoxious departure from the White House to counter President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration in January 2021. The news outlet, which states to have spoken with sources close to the Trump team, revealed that Trump’s plan aims to draw attention away from the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden.
- Despite reports, a White House spokesperson denied such events, declaring “Anonymous sources who claim to know what the President is or is not considering have no idea,” spokesman Judd Deere told Axios. “When President Trump has an announcement about his plans for Jan. 20, he will let you know.”
- When asked whether or not he would attend the Inauguration, President Trump responded evasively. “I don’t want to say that yet. I mean, I know the answer. I’ll be honest, I know the answer,” said the President.
- President-elect Biden also touched on the matter in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper last week. Biden told the reporter that it was not important to him personally if Trump attends but said it was “important in a sense that we are able to demonstrate at the end of this chaos that he’s created that there is a peaceful transfer of power with the competing parties standing there, shaking hands and moving on.”
- Even Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC), one of the president’s most vocal allies and has also refused to acknowledge Biden’s victory, said last week that “if Biden winds up winning, yeah, I think” Trump should attend the inauguration.
President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris are expected to be sworn into office on January 20, 2020, in a historical ceremony that is expected to be very different from past inaugurations.
