Former first lady Michelle Obama is skipping Donald Trump's inauguration. She also did not attend Jimmy Carter's funeral last week.

Michelle Obama posts poignant message as she skips Trump inauguration - Barack Obama attended Trump’s inauguration while wife Michelle decided to skip the ceremony

On January 20, 2025, Michelle Obama skipped Donald Trump's inauguration. Instead, she took to Instagram to honor MLK Day, and encouraged her followers to remember Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "legacy of service."

Former President Obama made a stag entrance as Michelle Obama was missing from Donald Trump‘s swearing-in ceremony. The former President attended the inauguration and swearing-in ceremony of Donald Trump as the next President,

First ladies have long used their Inauguration Day outfits to make statements — whether about their own images, incoming presidents' priorities or the state of our nation as a whole.

Michelle Obama was the only spouse absent at the funeral service at Washington National Cathedral, where her husband and Trump were seated next to each other and chatted and laughed like old friends despite the history of political animosity between the Democratic former president and the returning Republican.

Former first lady Michelle Obama was not among the guests at President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration today, her second time in two weeks missing a high-profile gathering of former presidents and first ladies in Washington,

The former first lady decided not to accompany her husband, former President Barack Obama, to the swearing-in ceremony.

Barack Obama arrived without his wife Michelle to Donald Trump’s inauguration, after it was announced that the former first lady would be skipping out on the swearing-in ceremony. Obama, dressed in a suit and striped tie,

The inauguration is the second gathering of U.S. presidents and their spouses that Michelle Obama has missed in recent weeks.

The former first lady will not attend the president-elect’s inauguration and also missed Jimmy Carter’s state funeral in Washington DC earlier this month