Donald Trump made headlines earlier this week when he hinted that he might not be attending the wedding of his oldest son, Donald Trump Jr. Even more bizarrely, the president described his firstborn son as “a person I’ve known for a long time,” and implied that he was upset that he’d be judged, either way, on whether or not he made the trip to the wedding.
“He’d like me to go, but it’s going to be just a small little private affair, and I’m going to try and make it,” Trump told the press this week. “This is not good timing for me… Everything called Iran and other things.”
Now, the president has reportedly made a decision.
Per CNN, the wedding in the Bahamas will proceed without the president.
Reporter: Are you attending your son’s wedding?
Trump: He’d like me to go. I’m going to try. I said, this is not good timing for me. I have a thing called Iran and other things. He’s a person I’ve known for a long time. pic.twitter.com/lGdjvU7oD0
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“One person who is not expected to attend the intimate affair? President Donald Trump himself, the sources said,” the CNN report said. “The guest list is being kept small — by design, they said. Only immediate family and the couple’s closest friends will attend the nuptials, with the list totaling less than 50 people.”
Don Jr. was previously married to Vanessa Trump, the mother of his five children, and they divorced during his father’s first presidency. For several years, he dated and was later engaged to former Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle, who, upon Trump’s return to office, was named U.S. ambassador to Greece. The groom’s siblings are expected to attend the wedding.
CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Struck By Trump Maybe Blowing Off Son’s Wedding: ‘Really Something’ #Mediaite https://t.co/ij4CuOojhg
— #TuckFrump (@realTuckFrumper) May 22, 2026
CNN’s sources said that Trump was long expected to skip the wedding, ” in part due to the couple’s desire to have an incredibly private ceremony,” the sort of thing that is not possible if the sitting president is in attendance.
There’s also a possibility that Trump could, this weekend, invade one Caribbean island nation, Cuba, while his son is getting married on a different island nearby, in the Bahamas.
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