{"id":13113,"date":"2026-05-23T20:19:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T20:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/2026\/05\/23\/donald-trump-is-too-busy-posting-weird-memes-to-go-to-don-jr-s-wedding-mother-jones\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T20:19:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T20:19:37","slug":"donald-trump-is-too-busy-posting-weird-memes-to-go-to-don-jr-s-wedding-mother-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/2026\/05\/23\/donald-trump-is-too-busy-posting-weird-memes-to-go-to-don-jr-s-wedding-mother-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Is Too Busy Posting Weird Memes to Go to Don Jr.\u2019s Wedding – Mother Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Donald Trump and his son Donald Trump Jr. standing in the West Colonnade of the White House in Washington, DC. <\/span>Michael Brochstein\/ZUMA Press<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Get your news from a source that\u2019s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Donald Trump has<\/span> made it known far and wide that, as president, with the weight of the world on his shoulders, he\u2019s too busy to attend his son Don Jr.\u2019s second wedding<\/a> to Florida influencer Bettina Anderson in the Bahamas this weekend.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, the president said that with \u201ca thing called Iran\u201d and \u201cother things,\u201d the timing of the nuptials was \u201cnot good.\u201d\u00a0He added with his trademark tact, family feeling, and care for choosing his words, \u201cIf I do attend, I get killed. If I don\u2019t attend, I get killed\u2014by the fake news, of course, I\u2019m talking about.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the wedding weekend began, the president continued to express his regrets on TruthSocial, saying that\u00a0\u201ccircumstances pertaining to Government, and my love for the United States of America\u201d did not allow him to attend. Thus far, those \u201ccircumstances\u201d have involved the president posting a volley of weird stuff on TruthSocial, including a bunch of AI-generated images and some general seething at Stephen Colbert.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The president\u2019s public schedule<\/a> for the Memorial Day weekend is light, with a great deal of \u201cexecutive time\u201d on the docket. On Friday evening and Saturday morning, Trump devoted that time to posting several photographs of himself on TruthSocial, followed by an AI-generated image reading \u201cGOLDEN DOME FOR THE WHITE HOUSE,\u201d with a dome bathed in celestial light and surrounded by a clutter of satellites. He followed that up with a poorly Photoshopped image of himself looming like a harvest moon over a countryside dotted with houses and a mountain range, Trump\u2019s fingers grasping one of its peaks. \u201cHello, Greenland!\u201d the image read. (Apparently liking that image tremendously, Trump posted it again the following morning.) He also found time to post a tribute to late WWE wrestler Hulk Hogan, whom he mistakenly termed \u201cthe Huckster.\u201d<\/a> (Hogan was usually known by the nickname \u201cthe Hulkster,\u201d but \u201chuckster\u201d might be a term Trump is more familiar with.)<\/p>\n

The president, who is, again, reportedly very busy, followed these important insights with a tribute to NASCAR driver Kyle Busch, who died unexpectedly<\/a> last week, followed by an AI-generated video of himself<\/a> throwing former Late Show<\/em> host Stephen Colbert into a dumpster. Colbert, who has been an outspoken critic of Trump, hosted his last show on Thursday. CBS said last year that it would end Colbert\u2019s contract <\/a>and retire the Late Show franchise entirely, a decision the network improbably claimed was \u201cpurely financial.\u201d It\u2019s one of several recent TruthSocial posts Trump has posted about Colbert in recent days. On Friday morning, around 2 a.m, the president dubbed him a \u201ctotal jerk,\u201d <\/a>adding at 9:37 a.m. that his \u201cfiring\u201d was, as he put it, <\/a>\u201cthe \u2018Beginning of the End\u2019 for untalented, nasty, highly overpaid, not funny, and very poorly rated Late Night Television Hosts. Others, of even less talent, to soon follow. May they all Rest in Peace!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

One could argue that these are not the actions of a man who\u2019s too busy to attend his son\u2019s wedding, or really, a man who\u2019s busy at all. But given his recent, worryingly combative stance<\/a> towards the Cuban government, his leering interest in Greenland,<\/a> and a reported possibility that Trump will once again attack Iran<\/a>, it is perhaps in everyone\u2019s best interest that the president seems to be, for now, very, very busy posting on his phone.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump and his son Donald Trump Jr. standing in the West Colonnade of the White House in Washington, DC. Michael Brochstein\/ZUMA Press Get your news from a source that\u2019s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Donald Trump has made it known far and wide that, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13113","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=13113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}