One precedent Trump is (kind of) upholding? Skipping the inauguration of his successor

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🗓️ 15 January 2021

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Carrie Dann looks back in time to see why some previous presidents skipped the inaugurations of their successors.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Meet the Press.
0:04.4	I'm Carrie Dan.
0:06.6	Once again, it is a Monday, so we're going to drop a little knowledge about data and
0:12.1	history with our number of the week here on the Chuck Todd cast.
0:17.5	You know the drill, there's one little number and a deep dive into the bigger story of
0:22.9	what it all means.
0:24.9	And today's number is 152.
0:29.6	Which is the number of years since a president declined to attend his successors inauguration.
0:37.2	It is a streak that is set to be broken on January 20th when Donald Trump will become the first
0:43.3	president since then and only the fifth president ever in US history to skip the formal presidential
0:50.3	transfer of power in person.
0:53.3	The others by the way are John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren and Andrew
0:58.4	Johnson.
0:59.4	More on them in a minute.
1:01.8	Now the president made the formal announcement that he would be skipping the inauguration
1:06.2	on Twitter.
1:07.2	In fact, it was his last tweet on the platform perhaps ever right before Twitter permanently
1:14.2	suspended his account late last week.
1:17.5	President Alex Joe Biden for his part responded to that announcement by saying, in essence,
1:23.5	well that's just fine by me.
1:26.4	That's because we can learn from history if we choose to, that is, I suppose.
1:32.6	It's worth taking a look at the company that President Trump will join on January 20th
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