George H.W. Bush Is Feeling Better, but Not Enough to Attend the Inauguration

As America will soon find out, healing takes time. And George H.W. Bush—who was admitted into the Houston Methodist Hospital ICU on Wednesday—is apparently healing up, but he still won't make it to Donald Trump's inauguration.

The former president, who had been suffering from pneumonia, is "on the upswing," according to family spokesman Jim McGrath. Nonetheless, the 92-year-old will remain under medical supervision and stick with his original plan of skipping Donald's big day, as explained in a January 10 letter to the PEOTUS.

"My doctor says if I sit outside in January, it likely will put me six feet under. Same for Barbara," wrote Bush.

Presumably satisfied with the excuse, Trump chose not to disparage the absentee Bushes, instead offering Twitter wishes of a "speedy recovery" to both President 41 and his wife, Barbara Bush, who had also been hospitalized with a case of bronchitis.

McGrath, who relayed Barbara's condition as "a thousand percent better," couched expectations by adding, "they may not be out of the woods yet, but we can see the edge of the forest."

Former President George W. Bush will be attending the inauguration, though without his brother Jeb!

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