Classless is as classless does. Donald Trump had a scrapbook frenzy on Friday night, posting almost a dozen pictures and articles of himself and Queen Elizabeth, or his opinions on King Charles. Trump wants the world to very much know that he is a player and was a big part of the high life at Buckingham Palace.

Oh, yes. He and Liz were quite the chums, to hear him spin the tale. So, is this his way of hinting to Joe Biden, “Please take me along to London, I promise I won’t call you an illegitimate president, at least not to your face. I just want to be important again, oh please oh please.”

There is a long history of former presidents joining major funeral delegations, CNN reported on Friday.

“For recent high-profile funerals, official US delegations have included both current and former US presidents. When Pope John Paul II died, President George W. Bush attended with his father, President George H.W. Bush, and former President Bill Clinton,” CNN reported. “President Barack Obama included George W. Bush, Clinton and former President Jimmy Carter in the official delegation to Nelson Mandela’s funeral. Bush traveled with him to South Africa aboard Air Force One, along with Hillary Clinton.”

“Former presidents are not expecting to receive individual funeral invitations from Buckingham Palace, according to two people familiar with protocol, with the expectation that the US will get one official invitation through the White House,” CNN reported. “This means Biden will ultimately decide who will join his official delegation to the funeral ceremonies in the United Kingdom. No decisions will be made until a formal invitation is made from the palace, a White House official said, even as preliminary discussions are already taking place.”

This is a hoot.

The way Trump is spoken about is like an insane relative that you don’t really want at the wedding/funeral, whatever, but you don’t want to make a scene, so you agonize on how to handle the issue.

I think it’s comical that Jake Tapper said Trump might not want to go because he would be in the “subordinate” position on Air Force One. Again, it’s like we’re dealing with a lunatic child here — and we are. Nobody wants to set him off but nobody wants him around, either.

Maybe Tapper is right. Maybe he should invite Trump and let Trump decline. Or, maybe Trump would go, God forbid, and then be the sideshow at the funeral. He could pull Boris Johnson aside and talk to him about what a raw deal he got, man, do I relate. I’m sure the last thing Johnson would want would be to be within the same city limits as Trump, let alone at the same social gathering.

Hard to say. This is life in the era of Trump. Even simple diplomatic issues become complex and bolluxed up. Take my advice, Joe. Leave him home and don’t invite him.

And here’s a bonus:

When the Trump klan was at Buckingham Palace, one of the local papers ran a photo of Camilla winking when somebody mentioned meeting Donald Trump. The Trumps are a planetary joke. They’re the only ones who don’t know it, apparently.

 

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  2. There is no way in Hell Dark Brandon would invite the Mango Mussolini. Seriously, the UK doesn’t want him there, either. The Brits are all about decorum and the last thing they would want is Fpotus chewing up the scenery. They know how to put on weddings, funerals and pageants. I do think he should invite all other prior Presidents and First Ladies. Jimmy Carter will probably decline, he is 97 after all.

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  4. Invite him with the caveat he must walk behind the horses & scoop up their shit. He can wear that ugly outfit he wore previously. The Brits would enjoy that one. Oh. And he must wear a dunce cap to top it off. Tell him its a special honor left in the Queen’s will. His ego would buy it.

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  5. I’m assuming the funeral will require formal wear, which for men means a “tux” with the coat being what’s known as a Morning Coat, sometimes called a cutaway. Not tails, but the front panels of the coat curve back to a single tail. I don’t know if, at some functions top hats are required, at least outdoors.

    I wonder if Trump could fuck up the look of this type of formal wear as badly as he did the White Tie for that state dinner (there’s a pic of it in a recent article I put up here). Hell, if only for some comic relief the Queen might have wanted Trump to show up trying to look like “big boy” in his all grown up outfit so other world leaders could joke to themselves at his expense. And oh boy would the tabliods have a field day over there! Which is why probably the Royal Family wants Trump to stay on OUR side of the Atlantic. Biden has had plenty to do restoring our reputation in the world and trotting out a clownish looking Trump at a solemn event meant to celebrate the life of Queen Elizabeth would open him and the U.S. to all manner of mockery.

    I say fuck protocol. Do you think for ONE SECOND Trump would have offered Obama a place in the official delegation? Hell no! Obama would have been there of course, because protocol aside the Palace would have extended him a private invitation. And lest we forget, the Obama’s White House portraits were only unveiled this past week. The classless Trump refused to honor tradition and invite the Obamas back to the WH for the ceremony once the portraits were completed!

    Here’s a fun thought. Put Trump on the PRESS plane. Or better yet, Biden can legitimately say with everything going on in Ukraine and elsewhere he’ll have to spend the trip working in the conference room with advisors – and that Trump will have to SHARE the President’s office on Air Force one with…the Obamas! Wouldn’t that be special? And Obama could even share pics of his own State dinner, his poses with the Queen in a properly fitted White Tie outfit and compare it to Trump, and offer a dig or two about the length of the sleeves (“Did your tailor not want your cufflinks to show when you bent your arms?”), or make a flat-out crack about the pucker around the buttons on the waistcoat, again something like “Your aides didn’t know a tailor could have made an extention to the back of that thing so you wouldn’t have to worry about those buttons popping off? And while he was at it shorten it so that you didn’t have all that sticking out below the front panels of your tailcoat. I mean, you’re a rich NYC guy aren’t you? You DO know that the waistcoat isn’t supposed to show below the front of the tails like that don’t you?”

    Trump would have a stroke well before they reached London!

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  8. The Queen loathed him. He was shameful in his behavior. She wore a brooch given to her by the Obamas. I used to think Chrissy Tienen and Ryan Reynolds were tied for #1, but I think she beat them with that little trick .
    If Trump.wants tongo, he can travel.economy class and stand with the rest of the people who weren’t invited. Charles III can give him.the cut direct: a,raised eyebrow and a turned back.

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  9. I think Biden has far more sense of decorum than to include Trump, especially after the backhanded insults the queen gave him when they DID meet. And no doubt, he would do his damnedest to make even the funeral all about himself.

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