Memorial Day weekend. THAT is when Don Jr. chose to finally tie the knot with his current squeeze. I don’t know about you, but a high profile (and in so many wrong ways) choosing THIS weekend for nuptials doesn’t exactly exude honor for those who have given so much to this country. Then again look at Junior’s P.O.S. father who thinks all of us who served are “suckers and losers”, and is even more dismissive of those who gave their lives for our country. Remember him standing at the grave of John Kelly’s son at Arlington on Memorial Day, gesturing at all the gravestones and saying ‘I don’t get it. What was in it for them?”
However Junior did in fact celebrate getting married this weekend in a Bahamas ‘destination wedding’, one which his pops didn’t attend. Hollywood Life provides some details if you’re morbidly curious. There was some mention during the week about Trump not attending his own son’s wedding. In a rare bout of common sense (Susie Wiles intervention perhaps) the tawdry spectacle of a White House wedding like happened with LBJ and Nixon was nixed. Those two, also held while American forces were fighting a war were bad enough but to have a WH wedding on Memorial Day would have been too much even for MAGAs.
Instead, Junior and his bride chose a small ceremony for just family and close friends. I found it curious he didn’t have it at Mar A Lago before it was closed down for the summer. However he could just as easily have held it at Bedminster which would have been easily able to keep the ‘riff-raff’ well away. But no, they chose the Bahamas. Interestingly though they actually got married here in the states in a private deal – the Bahamas thing was a ‘show wedding.’ The whole thing got me to wondering and in twisted ways. Then again this is the Trump family we’re talking about.
Did Junior even tell daddy about the secret wedding a few days ago? If not, then why? Even if they’d done the official wedding in the Bahamas it begs the question of why Junior would have his wedding there instead of someplace convenient for dad. Well, perhaps he was afraid daddy wouldn’t attend which of course would have been embarrassing. Hell, it’s not like Trumpty doesn’t enjoy tormenting his namesake. He has after all considered his first born a “loser” since the day he was born, even going so far as to object to him being named Donald Jr.! (“What if he turns out to be a loser he asked Trophy Wife #1 Ivana?)
So there’s that. Or, maybe Junior was giving his dad a political “out” to not attend (the war) because he didn’t really want his daddy their sh!tting all over things and making it all about HIM and not the ‘happy couple.’ Trump is known for doing that to couples who pay through the nose to get married at Mar A Lago. Then there’s a darker possibility…
Bettina Anderson is only 39. Clearly she’s severely lacking in judgement and self-esteem (or maybe just a gold digging social climber) but she’s fairly attractive. Maybe Junior picked up on too many comments from daddy about her looks, and relative (to Melania) youth and thought he’d want to keep dad far away. Maybe Junior saw a rerun of Braveheart and feared daddy would claim that Prima Nocte thing? So like Mel Gibson’s character he married in secret and took away daddy’s “right” to his new wife on their wedding night. And for good measure made sure that daddy wouldn’t make a belated attempt on the night of the ‘family & close friends for-show’ wedding!
It just bugs the hell out of me that Junior chose THIS weekend to get married. Not one single Trump on either side of the family has served this or any country in uniform going back to Trump’s grandfather at least. So if anyone tries to sling MAGA bullshit at you about how much the Trump’s love America and are the most bigly patriots ever remind them of how the Trump family treated this weekend.
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“In a rare bout of common sense (Susie Wiles intervention perhaps) the tawdry spectacle of a White House wedding like happened with LBJ and Nixon was nixed.”
Actually, per Wiki, there have been weddings at the White House since those two–including one just 4 years ago when President Biden’s granddaughter, Naomi, got married on the South Lawn. But, the LBJ situation at least, featured a daughter, Lynda, entering into marriage for the first time and she would get married to a Marine (future Governor of Virginia and US Senator Chuck Robb) who would serve a tour of duty in Vietnam just a few months later. And with Tricia Nixon, the “spectacle” was still less tawdry than anything the Drumpf family could conceive. I mean, for all of Nixon’s flaws, at least he understood the concepts of “grace” and “dignity” when it came to the White House (not to mention, he wouldn’t have ever spoke about the “hotness” of his own daughter and he would have NEVER considered upstaging the couple at their wedding).
My point with LBJ and Nixon was the country was involved in a highly unpopular war. However, at least as you point out those two marriages were at least first marriages.
“The Bahamas does not have a blanket ban on adjudicated rapists, but immigration officers have broad discretion to deny entry to anyone convicted of serious sexual offenses.”
>>Clearly she’s severely lacking in judgement and self-esteem (or maybe just a gold digging social climber) <<
Just what I was thinking. I simply can't understand anyone wanting to marry into that branch of the family; the idea of interacting with any of them makes my skin crawl.
I agree that it's disrespectful to choose Memorial Day weekend for a wedding — but I'm willing to bet that, when they chose the date, NO ONE made the connection. They're so blind to what ordinary citizens feel and respect that such considerations aren't even on their radar. "Last weekend in May? Sounds good; nothing going on that weekend."