- First Lady Melania Trump found that she would not attend the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden when her husband tweeted about it, CNN reported on Thursday.
- Before the president’s tweet on January 8, the first lady was unsure whether he would break tradition and refuse to attend, symbolically undermining the peaceful transfer of power.
- The first lady remained silent about her husband’s campaign to overturn the 2020 election results, but appeared to support her efforts by calling for “fair elections” after her defeat.
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First Lady Melania Trump found that she would not attend President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration in the same way as the rest of us: through her husband’s Twitter account.
A senior White House official told CNN on Thursday that the first lady was unsure whether the president would break tradition and refuse to attend the inauguration, symbolically undermining the peaceful transfer of power. She found out that she and her husband would not attend when he tweeted about it on January 8.
“It is not the first time she has found out what he is doing, because he tweeted before he told her,” the White House official told CNN.
The first lady remained silent about her husband’s months-long campaign to overturn the 2020 election results, although she seemed to support her efforts by calling for “fair elections” after her defeat.
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“The American people deserve fair elections,” she tweeted the next day, the media declared Biden the president-elect. “All legal votes – not illegal – must be counted. We must protect our democracy with complete transparency ”.
But even as the president struggles to stay in the White House, the first lady has spent the past two months preparing for life after Washington, DC. She has been packing, packing and shipping family belongings to the president’s resort in Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, as well as arranging for her son, Barron, to attend school in Florida.
After remaining silent for five days after the pro-Trump uprising at the Capitol on January 6, the First Lady issued a statement on Monday expressing sympathy for the rioters and police officers who died and accusing critics of spreading “obscene gossip” about her.
“I find it shameful that around these tragic events there have been lewd gossip, unwarranted personal attacks and false misleading accusations about me – from people looking to be relevant and have an agenda,” she said.