Rep. Moore: 'It's Been Very Hard To Respect Donald Trump'
Rep. Gwen Moore sat down with the hosts of the Milwaukee-based talk show UpFront, during which time she talked about why she wasn't choosing to stay in Milwaukee for MLK Day and what she foresaw for the new session of Congress:
HOST: Congresswoman Gwen Moore, who joins us now. Congresswoman, welcome back to UpFront.
MOORE: Hey, thank you. Happy New Year.
HOST: Happy New Year to you as well. So, you have announced that you're going to be here in Milwaukee and not at the inauguration tomorrow. Why?
MOORE: You know, it was a process, my deciding not to go. I did go to the first Trump inauguration. It's bitterly cold out there. but I thought that I would go. And when I came to realize that the inauguration day was going to fall on MLK Day, something that hasn't done since Bill Clinton was inaugurated. My constituents really, it was a drumbeat of folks begging me to come and go to these events I go to every single year. since there's never any conflict. and I you know, I still intended to just go to the inauguration. And i think, you know, Trump whining over the flag flying at half-staff was just the final straw for me.
HOST: If inauguration did not fall on MLK Day, would you have attended?
MOORE: You know, there would have been a lot. like I said, I think the final straw for me was his whining about Jimmy Carter, about the flag being flown at half-staff to honor the 39th President.. I just, you know, I think that that it's been very hard to respect Donald Trump.