The men who held the nation’s highest bureau earlier President Trump person each remained mum connected his taking the presidency connected Monday.
All 4 surviving erstwhile presidents – Bill Clinton, George Bush, Barack Obama and Joe Biden – attended the inauguration ceremony, and sat down Trump arsenic helium gave a politically charged code astir his imaginativeness for the aboriginal of the country.
None had immoderate nationalist good wishes for the incoming president aft the swearing-in ceremony. Asked whether they planned to enactment retired a connection connected it, nary of their offices responded astatine property time.
Biden lone addressed his supporters and staffers successful remarks earlier boarding a authorities chopper to beryllium whisked distant from Washington, D.C.
"We're leaving office, we're not leaving the fight," helium told them.
Former President George W. Bush, erstwhile archetypal woman Laura Bush and erstwhile President Barack Obama pursuing the inauguration ceremony.
Former archetypal ladies Hillary Clinton, Laura Bush and Jill Biden each attended the ceremonial alongside their husbands. Michelle Obama did not attend.
Sources reportedly adjacent to Michelle Obama told People mag that the erstwhile archetypal woman intended to skip Trump's inauguration due to the fact that she cannot incorporate her disdain for the Republican president-elect.
Hillary Clinton chuckled erstwhile Trump suggested renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. Bill Clinton told CNN of his absorption to the speech: "I think you tin fig it retired for yourself." The Clintons did not enactment for the inaugural luncheon.
Trump and erstwhile archetypal woman Melania Trump did not be President Biden's inauguration successful 2021. At the precocious President Jimmy Carter’s funeral, Obama and Trump were seen chatting and laughing similar aged friends contempt the past of governmental animosity betwixt the erstwhile Democratic president and the returning Republican.
Former Presidents Clinton and Bush did not enactment retired a nationalist connection astir Trump's inauguration.
The Trumps and the Bidens speech words connected Inauguration Day.
PRESIDENT BIDEN PARDONS HIS SIBLINGS JUST MINUTES BEFORE LEAVING OFFICE
Trump, successful his address, took shots astatine Biden without addressing him by name.
"My caller predetermination is simply a mandate to wholly and wholly reverse a horrible betrayal, and each of these galore betrayals that person taken place, and to springiness the radical backmost their faith, their wealth, their ideology and indeed, their freedom," Trump said.
In a follow-up code to supporters, Trump called retired Biden’s last-minute moves arsenic president.
"You're going to spot a batch of enactment connected the J6 hostages," helium said.
"And I was going to speech astir the things Joe did contiguous with the pardons of radical that were very, precise blameworthy of precise atrocious crimes, similar the UnSelect Committee of governmental thugs," helium went on.
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In an 11th hr move, Biden preemptively pardoned the members of the January 6th House Select Committee that investigated the relation of Trump and his acolytes successful the 2021 Capitol riot, on with Dr. Anthony Fauci and erstwhile Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Mark Milley.
And conscionable moments earlier leaving the White House, Biden preemptively shielded his siblings and their spouses from immoderate prosecution.