Inaugural boycotts are rare, but they do happen. There was talk of an even bigger boycott of Richard Nixon's inauguration in 1973. The Post reported in 2001 that Rep. John Lewis of Georgia — who drew Trump's ire when he said he didn't see the president-elect as "legitimate" and said he would stay home — skipped George W. Bush's inauguration for similar reasons. As in 2016, the Democratic candidate had won the popular vote, but not the election.