Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will not attend President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration in Washington on Monday, according to her office.
It marks a reversal from 2017, when Pelosi (D–San Francisco) attended Trump’s first inauguration while dozens of fellow House Democrats sat out in protest.
Ian Krager, a spokesperson for Pelosi, confirmed to KQED on Thursday that she would not attend but did not give a reason why.
Pelosi, who became House speaker for the second time in 2019, clashed with Trump often during his first administration, overseeing two impeachment proceedings and labeling him a threat to democracy.
The acrimony was dialed up after an attacker who was targeting Pelosi over her treatment of Trump bludgeoned her husband, Paul Pelosi, at their San Francisco home in 2022.
“We’ll stand up to crazy Nancy Pelosi, who ruined San Francisco — how’s her husband doing, anybody know?” Trump said, mocking the attack in a speech at the California Republican Party Convention in 2023. “And she’s against building a wall at our border, even though she has a wall around her house — which obviously didn’t do a very good job.”
Pelosi was infuriated by the reaction, telling CBS News last year that Trump “was an instigator of violence and then made light of it.”
On the campaign trail last year, Trump ramped up his attacks against the former House speaker, calling her “an enemy from within.”
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