{"id":97416,"date":"2017-10-22T19:08:29","date_gmt":"2017-10-22T19:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/hillary-clinton-says-she-tried-to-avoid-going-to-trumps-inauguration.html"},"modified":"2017-10-22T19:08:29","modified_gmt":"2017-10-22T19:08:29","slug":"hillary-clinton-says-she-tried-to-avoid-going-to-trumps-inauguration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/hillary-clinton-says-she-tried-to-avoid-going-to-trumps-inauguration.html","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Clinton says she tried to avoid going to Trump’s inauguration"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Hillary Clinton said on “The Graham Norton Show” she and husband Bill tried to skip President Trump’s inauguration. <\/p>\n

\u00a0(Reuters)<\/p>\n

Hillary Clinton joked on Friday about how she and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, tried to ditch President Trump\u2019s inauguration ceremony and said she was \u201cso disappointed\u201d in the president\u2019s speech, which she described as “a cry from the white nationalist\u2019s gut.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n

Clinton appeared on BBC\u2019s \u201cGraham Norton Show\u201d and said she called previous presidents to see if they were attending Trump\u2019s inauguration.<\/p>\n

“I really tried to get out of going,” Clinton recalled<\/a> after Norton said her attendance was \u201cShakespearean.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe thought, maybe others aren\u2019t going. So we called the Bushes, and the elder Bushes were in the hospital, which I think was legitimate,\u201d Clinton said to a laughing crowd.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe call the younger Bushes, and they said, \u2018Yeah, we\u2019re going.\u2019 We then call the Carters and they said, \u2018Yeah, we\u2019re going.\u2019 So Bill and I looked at each other and said, \u2018Well, we gotta go,\u201d Clinton said, adding \u201cugh, my gosh!\u201d<\/p>\n

The former Democratic presidential candidate recalled not knowing what to expect before attending Trump\u2019s inauguration, referring back to what she wrote in her book, \u201cWhat Happened,” about that morning.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I wanted to have happen [at the inauguration] was despite the kind of campaign he ran, I wanted [Trump] to rise to the occasion of being our president and being the president for everybody, not just people who supported him,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

But she was left disappointed, Clinton said. She said Trump\u2019s inauguration speech was \u201cdark and divisive\u201d and was a \u201ccry from the white nationalist\u2019s gut.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI was so disappointed. Really, so sad that it wasn\u2019t an outreach but it was a narrowing and a hammering of what he had said before,\u201d Clinton said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd it was reported that George W. Bush, as it ends, says, \u2018That was some weird s\u2014t,\u201d she recalled with a laugh, to which Norton replied, \u201cAnd it was.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clinton was a guest on the show as she continues to promote her book. She was seen with a surgical boot on stage after she broke her toe days earlier. She praised the care she received under England\u2019s health care system. Clinton also revealed she \u201cignores\u201d most of Trump\u2019s tweets because \u201cthere are so many of them.\u201d She admitted she responds when she feels like Trump\u2019s tweets were \u201churtful and unfair and really causing problems for people.\u201d<\/p>\n

She added, \u201cThe most dangerous thing he does is conduct diplomacy on Twitter,\u201d such as trading insults with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe does things that are not only upsetting, but kind of inexplicable.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Hillary Clinton said on “The Graham Norton Show” she and husband Bill tried to skip President Trump’s inauguration. \u00a0(Reuters) Hillary Clinton joked on Friday about how she and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, tried to ditch President Trump\u2019s inauguration ceremony and said she was \u201cso disappointed\u201d in the president\u2019s speech, which she described as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-97416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}