Hillary Clinton admitted that she tried to skip President Trump’s inauguration ceremony.
“I really tried to get out of going,” Clinton said Friday on Britain’s “The Graham Norton Show.”
Clinton said she and former President Bill Clinton hoped other past presidents wouldn’t go, giving them an excuse not to attend even though it’s “tradition” for former officeholders to go and show “support and continuity of our government.”
“We thought, ‘OK, maybe others aren’t going.’ So we called the Bushes and the elder Bushes were in the hospital, which I think was legitimate,” Clinton said.
After finding out former President George W. Bush and his wife Laura Bush were attending, as well as former President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn Carter, “Bill and I looked at each other and said, ‘Well we gotta go,'” she said.
Clinton called the inauguration ceremony disappointing, with Trump’s “dark, divisive” speech that was a “cry from the white nationalist gut.”
“I try to describe in the book what that felt like, because I didn’t know what to expect. What I wanted to have happen was, despite the kind of campaign he ran, I wanted him to rise to the occasion of being our president and being the president for everybody, not just people who supported him. That didn’t happen,” Clinton said.
