Donald Trump is now planning to skip a visit to the National Museum of African American History and Culture on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Transition officials say the president-elect will no longer make the visit on Monday because of scheduling issues, ABC News reported.
On Saturday, ABC News reported the president-elect was expected to make a visit to the museum on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
But that was before the backlash fully heated up over Trump's recent attacks on Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga.
In an interview to be broadcast Sunday, the civil rights icon said he didn't think Trump was a "legitimate president," pointing to the Russian meddling in the U.S. presidential election.
On Saturday, Trump blasted Lewis in a series of tweets, saying he should be focusing on reviving the economies of "burning" inner cities.
President Obama had previously urged the president-elect to go to the museum after Trump in September said the African-American community was "in the worst shape that they've ever been in before."
"I think that even most 8-year-olds will tell you that whole slavery thing wasn't very good for black people, Jim Crow wasn't very good for black people," Obama said at the time during an interview on “Good Morning America.”
"What we have to do is use our history to propel us to make even more progress in the future."
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