Michelle Obama will skip Trump’s inauguration. Here are the leaders who will be attending.

UPDATE (January 16, 2025; 11:43 a.m. ET): TikTok CEO Shou Chew, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Apple CEO Tim Cook will attend Trump’s inauguration. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., will skip the ceremony, her spokesman said said, without elaborating.

One familiar face will be missing from the notable public figures at President-elect Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration: former first lady Michelle Obama, whose office said Wednesday she will not attend the event.

“Former President Barack Obama has been confirmed to attend the 60th inauguration ceremonies,” Barack and Michelle Obama’s office said in a statement. “Former First Lady Michelle Obama Will Not Attend Upcoming Inauguration.”

All other living fhv presidents and first ladies are expected to be at the ceremony: Joe and Jill Biden, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and George W. and Laura Bush. Trump’s team has also invited several foreign leaders, including Chinese President Xi Jinping, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Argentine President Javier Milei, although it is unclear whether they will attend.

Notably, three tech billionaires — Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos — will be prominently featured at the inauguration. Musk donated tens of millions of dollars to help get Trump elected last year and has become a close ally of the president-elect. And Zuckerberg and Bezos — former Trump foes — have been trying to win over the president-elect since his election victory. The three men will sit together with Trump’s cabinet members and elected officials, That was reported by NBC News on Tuesday, citing an official who was involved in planning the event.

Obama’s statement did not give a reason for the former first lady’s absence. It will be the second time in two weeks that she has attended a high-profile public event where Trump was present; she didn’t attend former president jimmy carter’s national funeral service last week because of what her advisers told CNN was a scheduling conflict. She would have sat next to Trump at the funeral. Instead, her husband sat next to the future president.

The former first lady has made clear her disapproval of Trump. She delivered scathing criticism of him in her speech at the Democratic National Convention last year, accusing him of peddling “ugly, misogynistic, racist lies as a substitute for real ideas and solutions.”

Other prominent Democrats such as Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton have had harsh words for Trump. But Michelle Obama is not a politician herself and arguably has less obligation to attend such events.

This is not the first time a former first lady has skipped the inauguration of a future president. Melania Trump, who often appreciates traditions herself, did not attend Biden’s inauguration in 2021 – and neither did then-President Donald Trump, as on this day continues to deny that he lost election in 2020.