Jesse Watters was not impressed after Michelle Obama mentioned she wouldn’t attend GOP President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, despite the fact that neither Trump nor his spouse attended Democrat Joe Biden’s 4 years in the past.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of “Jesse Watters Primetime,” the Fox Information host complained that the previous first woman had already missed former President Jimmy Carter’s funeral final week. Aides to Obama, who would have been seated subsequent to Trump on the service, mentioned she was in Hawaii at time.
“She simply doesn’t need to go,” Watters mentioned of the inauguration, earlier than occurring to reference Obama’s husband, former President Barack Obama. “Michelle’s hanging Barack out to dry for the second high-profile political occasion inside only a few weeks. Why are Barack and Michelle on such completely different pages? Barack can’t persuade his spouse she has to do her responsibility and attend the inauguration?”
“I bear in mind when it was unpatriotic to skip an inauguration,” he added, pointing to media retailers making “sore loser” criticisms of Trump in 2021 when he declined to go to Biden’s swearing-in and as an alternative flew to his Mar-a-Lago property in Florida.
“The media and the Democrats are singing a unique tune now that it’s considered one of their very own breaking the norms they declare to like a lot.”
The circumstances are considerably completely different. When Donald Trump and partner Melania Trump skipped Biden’s inauguration, the Republican politician had been claiming for months, with out proof, that the 2020 election had been “stolen” from him.
Two weeks earlier than Inauguration Day in 2021, a violent mob of Donald Trump supporters, spurred by his lies, attacked the U.S. Capitol in an try to stop the certification of the election outcomes.
He was “the primary president in additional than 150 years … to skip his successor’s swearing-in for causes aside from ill-health,” the Council on Foreign Relations think tank wrote on the time.
Trump persistently eroded and ignored norms throughout his presidency and past. Final yr, he was publicly likened by his personal former chief of workers to a fascist who would govern like a dictator if allowed.
Some Democrats, together with Barack Obama, have been accused of normalizing Trump following his 2024 election win by being civil.
Michelle Obama didn’t present a motive for her choice to not attend the president-elect’s upcoming inauguration. She campaigned fiercely towards Trump, who final week formally turned a convicted felon, and in October she said, “in some other occupation or area, Trump’s legal observe report and amoral character could be embarrassing, shameful and disqualifying.”
Barack Obama is anticipated to attend Trump’s inauguration, as are former Presidents Invoice Clinton and George W. Bush, plus their wives, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former first woman Laura Bush.
Watters’ criticism of Michelle Obama set off some profuse eye-rolling on social media.
