Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will not attend Trump’s inauguration

Washington – According to her spokesman, the former Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, will not attend the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump on Monday.

Pelosi led the House Democrats during the first Trump administration and attended his inauguration in 2017. She became one of Trump’s main antagonists and oversaw both impeachment cases against him as speaker.

A spokesman did not give a reason for her planned absence from the president-elect’s second inauguration. ABC News first reported her plans.

Pelosi fell and injured her hip during an overseas trip to Luxembourg in December, and required hip replacement surgery before she returned to the United States. She was seen using a walker in the Capitol when the new Congress convened earlier this month.

Pelosi, who stepped down from the leadership after the 2022 midterm elections, has been vocal about her opposition to Trump as he prepares to return to office. A frequent recipient of Republican ire, Pelosi was among the targets of some of the rioters on January 6, 2021, when a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol to delay the counting of electoral votes.

The California Democrat earlier this month accused Trump of inciting continued violence in the wake of the attack on the Capitol, including against her husband.

“He encouraged these people to continue their violence, my husband was a victim of all that,” Pelosi said on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” noting that her husband is still suffering from a head injury after a man broke into their San Francisco home and beat him with a hammer in October 2022.

Former first lady Michelle Obama also plans to skip Trump’s inauguration, although her husband, former President Barack Obama, is expected to attend the swearing-in ceremony.

Trump skipped President Biden’s 2021 inauguration, two weeks after the attack on the Capitol.