{"id":118855,"date":"2024-12-15T02:19:40","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T02:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/jimmy-carter-100-will-skip-donald-trumps-inauguration-joining-growing-list-of-dems-new-york-post\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T02:19:40","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T02:19:40","slug":"jimmy-carter-100-will-skip-donald-trumps-inauguration-joining-growing-list-of-dems-new-york-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/jimmy-carter-100-will-skip-donald-trumps-inauguration-joining-growing-list-of-dems-new-york-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Carter, 100, will skip Donald Trump\u2019s inauguration, joining growing list of Dems &#8211; New York Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former President <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/10\/01\/us-news\/jimmy-carter-turns-100-becoming-first-us-president-to-ever-reach-milestone-age\/\">Jimmy Carter<\/a> is joining the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2017\/01\/15\/trump-lewis-feud-prompts-more-democrats-to-skip-inauguration\/\">growing list of Democrats skipping President-Elect Donald Trump&#8217;s inauguration<\/a> next month.<br \/>But the decision is far from political &#8212; the 100-year-old&#8217;s health is too fragile to risk sending him to the massive ceremony, which is traditionally held outside in frigid temperatures, a spokesperson for the Carter Center told The Post.<br \/>&#8220;President Carter has been in hospice care for nearly two years. As you can imagine, he no longer makes public appearances,&#8221; the spokesperson told The Post.<br \/>If Carter were healthier, he would be in attendance, the spokesperson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2024\/12\/13\/carter-trump-inauguration-presidents-rsvp\/76957422007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told USA Today<\/a>.<br \/>This will mark the second inauguration Carter has missed since his own turn at the presidential helm. <br \/>He and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter sat out when President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were sworn in.<br \/>The Carters both moved into hospice in 2023. <br \/>Rosalynn died in November 2023 at the age of 96.<br \/>Plenty of other political leaders, however, are purposefully skipping Trump&#8217;s second presidential inauguration. <br \/>At least 18 Democrats are planning to boycott the ceremony including New York Dems  Reps. Jos\u00e9 Serrano, Nydia Velazquez, Adriano Espaillat, Jerrold Nadler and Yvette Clarke.<br \/>Represenatives for Trump did not return The Post&#8217;s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMimwFBVV95cUxQdmpYb1I3WUNZRGpqLV9acHRmZXNuT2x5OGtmWEw5OTgtazRKVlVnMmtRTUJKX0s4aVhxdW5kYW1Lc0Q0UUJOMzFBelMzRDBQZm1WUzAwWjRXNE5WdXVvaHBTV2EzZzZzVWR4Y2RLWnJzVkpJMVpPeHFXMTBhbVRkN0w0RFRlczU2ZTFXWk9mUXBHUUxfYkJXLWxSZw?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Jimmy Carter is joining the growing list of Democrats skipping President-Elect Donald Trump&#8217;s inauguration next month.But the decision is far from political &#8212; the 100-year-old&#8217;s health is too fragile to risk sending him to the massive ceremony, which is traditionally held outside in frigid temperatures, a spokesperson for the Carter Center told The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":118856,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-118855","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-us","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}