{"id":13078,"date":"2026-05-22T20:15:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T20:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/2026\/05\/22\/donald-trump-says-hell-skip-his-son-donald-jr-s-wedding-usa-today\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T20:15:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T20:15:39","slug":"donald-trump-says-hell-skip-his-son-donald-jr-s-wedding-usa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/2026\/05\/22\/donald-trump-says-hell-skip-his-son-donald-jr-s-wedding-usa-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump says he’ll skip his son Donald Jr.’s wedding – USA Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

Updated May 22, 2026, 3:02 p.m. ET<\/p>\n

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President Donald Trump won’t be attending his oldest son’s wedding, saying he feels compelled to remain in Washington, DC, “during this important period of time.”<\/p>\n

Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr.<\/a>, is engaged to Palm Beach, Florida, socialite Bettina Anderson.<\/a> The pair reportedly<\/a> are getting married over the weekend.<\/a><\/p>\n

“While I very much wanted to be with my son, Don Jr., and the newest member of the Trump Family, his soon to be wife, Bettina, circumstances pertaining to Government, and my love for the United States of America, do not allow me to do so,” the president said May 22 on social media.<\/a> “I feel it is important for me to remain in Washington, D.C., at the White House during this important period of time.”<\/p>\n

“Congratulations to Don and Bettina!” he added.<\/p>\n

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Trump earlier said the wedding was “not good timing for me”<\/a> \u2013 pointing to the Iran war \u2013 when asked about the event May 21 in the Oval Office.<\/p>\n

“He’d like me to go,” Trump said of his son, who runs The Trump Organization with his brother Eric. “But it’s going to be just a small, little private affair and I’m going to try and make it. I’m in the midst, I said: ‘You know this is not good timing for me, I have a thing called Iran and other things.'”<\/p>\n

Trump Jr., 48, announced his engagement to Anderson, 39, in December during a White House holiday party. They were engaged at Camp David,\u00a0the presidential retreat in Maryland. Anderson had a bridal shower at Mar-a-Lago, the president’s Palm Beach estate, last month.<\/p>\n

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CNN<\/a> and Page Six reported<\/a>\u00a0that Trump Jr. and Anderson will be married on a private island in the Bahamas over the weekend. It would be Trump Jr.’s second marriage. He has five children with former model Vanessa Trump. Their marriage ended in 2018.<\/p>\n

Vanessa Trump<\/a>, who is in a relationship with golfer Tiger Woods,\u00a0announced May 20<\/a>\u00a0that she has breast cancer, saying in a social media post that she is “staying focused and hopeful while surrounded by the love and support of my family, my kids and those closest to me.”<\/p>\n

Trump Jr. was engaged to Kimberly Guilfoyle, the United States ambassador to Greece, after his first marriage ended. Their relationship ended in 2024. He began appearing in public with Anderson in December 2024.<\/p>\n

The president said May 21 that he hopes Anderson and his son “have a great marriage.”<\/p>\n

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Contributing:\u00a0Mary Walrath-Holdridge<\/a>,\u00a0Kinsey Crowley<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Updated May 22, 2026, 3:02 p.m. ET President Donald Trump won’t be attending his oldest son’s wedding, saying he feels compelled to remain in Washington, DC, “during this important period of time.” Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., is engaged to Palm Beach, Florida, socialite Bettina Anderson. The pair reportedly are getting married over the weekend. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}