On Friday, President Donald Trump said he would not be attending the Jan. 20 inauguration of Joe Biden.
That’s not exactly a surprise. Only two days earlier, Trump was still refusing to concede the election.
At a rally on Wednesday, Trump told his supporters that he had won the election “by a landslide,” and encouraged them to “stop the steal” by storming the U.S. Capitol where members of Congress were in session to formally accept the election results.
“They cheated like hell,” he told the crowd.
So yeah, the President isn’t there yet. 
ITS A LONGSTANDING tradition for outgoing presidents and their staffs to do their best to help incoming administrations prepare for the task ahead.
In his new biography, “A Promised Land,” Barack Obama tells of how George W. Bush rolled out the welcome mat just a few days after the 2008 election.
“The president and First Lady Laura Bush greeted us at the South Portico … President Bush and I headed over to the Oval Office, while Michelle joined Mrs. Bush for tea in the residence.”
“President Bush would end up doing all he could to make the 11 weeks between my election and his departure go smoothly. Every office in the White House provided my team with detailed ‘how to’ manuals. His staffers made themselves available to meet with their successors, answer questions, and even be shadowed as they carried out their duties.
“The Bush daughters, Barbara and Jenna, by that time young adults, rearranged their schedules to give Malia and Sasha their own tour of the ‘fun’ parts of the White House.”
“I promised myself that when the time came, I would treat my successor the same way.”
Obama lived up to his word, even when Trump, the instigator of the lie that Obama was foreign-born, could not be more different in character.
Just two days after the 2016 election, Obama hosted Trump for 90 minutes in the Oval Office while Michelle Obama and Melania Trump had tea nearby.
The Trumps have refused to extend such an invitation to President-elect Joe Biden and his wife, Jill. 
THE PRESIDENT’S refusal to attend next week’s inauguration breaks a 152-year tradition.
