Members of Congress Boycott Trump’s Inauguration

  

Donald Trump‘s inauguration won’t be a star-studded affair on Friday — and it’s shaping up to be skippable by many politicians as well.

Though he won the Electoral College by 306 votes to Hillary Clinton’s 236, he’s starting off his presidency with the lowest approval rate in decades — just 40 percent, according to a CNN/ORC survey. (Before he took office in early 2009, Barack Obama’s approval rating was 84 percent, according to the same survey.)

That disapproval has seeped into the Capitol, with 51 members of Congress (at current count) abstaining from Trump’s inauguration and the following festivities.

Most notable is Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights icon and longtime Democratic congressman from Georgia. Though Lewis’s lack of attendance is the only one that’s gotten Trump fired up on Twitter (so far) others have followed in Lewis’s path.

Trump was asked about the growing number of lawmakers who won’t be attending during an interview on Fox & Friends, and claimed he didn’t care — and he’d like to dole their tickets out to others.

“That’s okay, because we need seats so badly,” he said. “I hope they give me their tickets.”

Below is a list of all those who wouldn't be attending Trump;s inauguration

 

Other members  include:

Rep. Kurt Schrader (D-OR)

Rep. Mark Takano (D-CA)

Rep. Lacy Clay (D-MO)

Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-NY)

Rep. Judy Chu (D-CA)

Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-NY)

Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA)

Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA)

Rep. Alma Adams (D-NC)

Rep. Anthony Brown (D-MD)

Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-NC)

Rep. Judy Chu (D-CA)

Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN)

Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR)

Rep. Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA)

Rep. Dwight Evans (D-PA)

Rep. Al Green (D-TX)

Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ)

Rep. Jerry McNerney (D-CA)

Rep. Grace Napolitano (D-CA)

Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-ME)

Rep. Raul Ruiz (D-CA)

Rep. Carol Shea-Porter (D-NH)

Rep. José E. Serrano (D-NY)

Rep. Darren Soto (D-FL)

Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS)

Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY)

Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA)

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD)

Rep. John Yarmuth (D-KY)

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA)