{"id":38751,"date":"2026-05-21T22:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T22:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/?p=38751"},"modified":"2026-05-21T22:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T22:46:12","slug":"trump-unsure-if-hell-attend-sons-wedding-says-not-good-timing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/?p=38751","title":{"rendered":"Trump unsure if he\u2019ll attend son\u2019s wedding, says not good timing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"anchor-0eb6b2\" class=\"body-graf\">WASHINGTON \u2014 President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s RSVP to his son\u2019s wedding this weekend is still pending.<\/p>\n<p><button class=\"styles_subscriptionCTA__LOUeY\" id=\"subscriptionCTA\" type=\"button\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"styles_textWrapper__vxvko\">\n<p class=\"styles_text__daaVB styles_textLarge__qlzwu\">Subscribe to read this story ad-free    <\/p>\n<p class=\"styles_text__daaVB\">Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/rockcms\/2026-01\/arrow-f55fa5.svg\" alt=\"arrow\" class=\"styles_arrow__tnruW\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><\/button><\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-8327c7\" class=\"body-graf\">Speaking to reporters at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/white-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the White House<\/a> on Thursday, Trump said that because of the Iran war and \u201cother things,\u201d he wasn\u2019t sure whether he\u2019d be attending the nuptials of Donald Trump Jr. and Bettina Anderson.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-2732d3\" class=\"body-graf\">Asked by NBC News whether he would be in attendance, the president said it \u201cis not good timing for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-c58f38\" class=\"body-graf\">\u201cHe\u2019d like me to go,\u201d Trump said of his eldest son. \u201cBut it\u2019s going to be just a small, little private affair, and I\u2019m going to try and make it. I\u2019m in the midst \u2014 I said, you know, this is not good timing for me. I have a thing called Iran and other things. That\u2019s one I can\u2019t win on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-5f729c\" class=\"body-graf\">Trump added that either way, he would be attacked by the media.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-fd8a7e\" class=\"body-graf\">\u201cIf I do attend, I get killed. If I don\u2019t attend, I get killed, by the fake news, of course,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-26e9a9\" class=\"body-graf\">Still, the president wished the couple luck.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-1cbb1d\" class=\"body-graf\">\u201cHe\u2019s got a very \u2014 a person who I\u2019ve known for a long time, and hopefully they are going to have a great marriage,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-57eefb\" class=\"body-graf\">The wedding is set to take place on Saturday in the Bahamas, <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/18\/society\/donald-trump-jr-bettina-anderson-to-wed-over-memorial-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Page Six reported<\/a>. A spokesperson for Donald Trump Jr. did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-57d3aa\" class=\"body-graf\">Anderson and the younger Trump announced their engagement during a White House holiday party in December, with Trump Jr. calling it a \u201cbig win\u201d as the president stood behind the couple.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-da5265\" class=\"endmark body-graf\">Trump Jr. was married to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/vanessa-trump-breast-cancer-diagnosis-rcna346232\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vanessa Trump for 13 years and has two children with her. <\/a>He was previously engaged to Kimberly Guilfoyle, whom the president appointed as U.S. ambassador to Greece in 2025 after she parted ways with Trump Jr.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/donald-trump\/president-says-try-attend-son-wedding-not-good-timing-iran-war-rcna346398\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 President Donald Trump\u2019s RSVP to his son\u2019s wedding this weekend is still pending. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Speaking to reporters at the White House on Thursday, Trump said that because of the Iran war and \u201cother things,\u201d he wasn\u2019t sure whether he\u2019d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38752,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-conditions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38753,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38751\/revisions\/38753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}