Trump snubs inauguration ceremony

Trump is determined to do everything different. I am not aware of any past American president refusing to turn up at the inauguration ceremony of the man (one day it will be a woman!) succeeding him. But Trump has declared that he will snub Joe Biden's ceremony. I assume Mike Pence will go. It's the final tantrum - please God the final tantrum - of a president who just cannot accept the fact that he was defeated. By a man even older than him. It's bad manners of course and unconstitutional and silly. But his supporters will back him. Perhaps he will hold a rally elsewhere while Biden is placing his hand on the Bible. It has always been said about American politics that it's the presidency not the president that's important. In other words, presidents come and go but the state of presidency remains for ever. Well it sounds good but Trump has screwed that idea up. The presidency has been kicked around so much under his leadership that all sense of dignity has been cast aside. Even while Biden is standing before the world promising to be a good president, we will all be thinking, "I wonder what Trump is doing, has he really gone, is that him peeping round the corner?" When Obama, George W, Clinton, Reagan etc left to retire into the sunset, it was all done according to gentlemanly rules. The final farewell from Marine One, the smiles, the wave of the hand. All very dignified. But that's not for Trump. It's all very very sad for a country I love.