Pressley announced earlier this month her intention to boycott the Inauguration Ceremony in Washington and instead host a “Day of Beloved Community” in Nubian Square. She also spoke at the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day breakfast earlier Monday morning, where Sen. Ed Markey also spoke in lieu of attending President Donald Trump’s inauguration.

U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley, who represents Massachusetts’ 7th District, announced that she will not be attending the inauguration next week. She joined GBH’s All Things Considered host Arun Rath to share more about that decision and how she’s preparing for a second Trump administration. What follows is a lightly edited transcript.

For only the third time since President Ronald Reagan declared Martin Luther King Day a federal holiday in 1983, the presidential inauguration and MLK Day will fall on the same day, the other two presidents were Bill Clinton (1997) and Barack Obama (2013).