The outgoing US President Donald Trump announced that he would not attend the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, thus becoming the fourth president in the history of the United States to make this decision, and the first in 150 years.
The second President of the United States, John Adams, was the first president not to attend the inauguration of his successor, Thomas Jefferson.
Adams left the White House in the early morning hours of March 4, 1801, the inauguration of President Jefferson's successor.
In 1829, the sixth President of the United States, John Quincy Adams, son of John Adams, did not attend the inauguration of his successor, Andrew Jackson.
President Andrew Johnson refused to attend the inauguration of President Ulysses Grant in 1869, after Grant refused to ride in the same carriage that would take them to the inauguration.
George Washington was the first American president to be installed in New York City, and in his second term, which began in 1793, he organized the inauguration ceremony in the Congress hall.
With Thomas Jefferson, who assumed the presidency in 1801, the Inauguration Ceremony moved to Washington, DC.
Since the inauguration of Ronald Reagan in 1981, the ceremony has been held on the western façade of the Capitol building opposite the famous Washington Monument, and it is customary for the president-elect to the White House and head to the inaugural hall accompanied by the departing president, then take the constitutional oath.