Washington: US President Donald Trump said he had not decided whether he would attend his son Donald Trump Jr’s wedding, which is supposed to take place this weekend – a long weekend in the US – in the Bahamas.
“He would like me to go, but it will just be a small private matter,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday (US time), when asked if he would attend the ceremony.
“I’m going to try to make it. I’m in the middle. I said, ‘You know, this is not a good time for me.’ I have something called Iran and other things.”
Trump stated that he would be criticized by the media if he attended the wedding in the middle of the war with Iran – although there is a ceasefire – and also if he stayed away.
“That’s something I can’t win. If I go, they kill me; if I don’t go, they kill me; I’m talking about fake news, of course,” he said.
“But he [Trump Jr] It has a person I have known for a long time. And hopefully they will have a great marriage.”
The New York PostPage Six Section reported this week that Trump Jr would marry his partner Bettina Anderson over the Memorial Day long weekend, which runs from Saturday to Monday, on a private island in the Bahamas.
Such a trip would be logistically difficult and expensive for a sitting president, given the security requirements. However, he routinely leaves Washington to spend weekends at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida or his private golf club in New Jersey.
Trump Jr, 48, runs the family business with his brother Eric and was active in his father’s political campaigns. He separated from his previous wife Vanessa in 2018 after 13 years of marriage; They have five children.
He later became engaged to Kimberly Guilfoyle, a former Fox News host who was married to California’s Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom.
Guilfoyle became a Republican and raised funds for Donald Trump, but she and Trump Jr separated in 2024. President Trump appointed her US ambassador to Greece.
It was in August 2024 when Trump Jr was first photographed with Anderson, a socialite and model, “canoodling” at a restaurant in Palm Beach, Florida.
He reportedly proposed to the 39-year-old in December while they were at Camp David, the president’s official retreat in Maryland, which has hosted major summits during previous presidencies.
In March, it was reported that Vanessa Trump was still dating American golf legend Tiger Woods, who returned to the US after attending a rehab program abroad following a DUI arrest.
This week she revealed that she had recently been diagnosed with breast cancer and had undergone a medical “procedure.”
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Michael Koziol is North America correspondent for The Age and Sydney Morning Herald. He is a former Sydney editor, deputy editor of the Sun-Herald and a federal political reporter in Canberra.Connect via unknown either email.
