White House Weekly: January 18

Published January 18, 2021 12:00am ET



We begin on Friday, January 8th, President Trump announces that he will not attend Joe Biden’s inauguration, writing on Twitter, "To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.”

That would end up being his last tweet as later, on Friday, Twitter bans President Trump from its platform, saying in a statement that the president’s account was permanently suspended “due to the risk of further incitement of violence.” Facebook, which had banned Trump earlier, said that his account will be taken down “at least” until the end of his term on January 20th.

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