New York:Outgoing US President Donald Trump joins a select club of American Presidents who will sit out their successors' inauguration but within that cohort, he will be alone in his attempt to incite a violent mob to storm the US Capitol and the only American President ever to be impeached twice.
Back in 1801, John Adams boarded a stagecoach and rode out of Washington, D.C. hours before Thomas Jefferson was to be sworn in as the country's third president. Adams did not attend.
In 1829, after a bitterly fought election rife with personal insults, John Quincy Adams boycotted Andrew Jackson's swearing-in ceremony.
When Jackson's wife died before the inauguration, the future president blamed his opponent for sparking slander-induced stress.
In 1869, Johnson absented himself from the inauguration of Ulysses S. Grant and stayed back in the White House signing last-minute legislation. Grant, on his part, refused to ride with Johnson from the White House to the Capitol for the ceremony.
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