{"id":31463,"date":"2026-04-18T11:15:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T11:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/31463\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T11:15:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T11:15:32","slug":"donald-trump-jr-s-wedding-plans-include-a-disquieting-revelation-from-a-political-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/31463\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Jr.\u2019s Wedding Plans Include a Disquieting Revelation From a \u201cPolitical Source\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Even in the midst of war and feuds with the papacy<\/a>, for the Trump family, life goes on, and you\u2019ve got to celebrate when you can. That\u2019s why many\u2014but not all\u2014of them could be found at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, last weekend, attending a wedding shower for Bettina Anderson and Donald Trump Jr. It\u2019s who wasn\u2019t there that has turned into the family\u2019s tabloid controversy of the week, for reasons I both do and do not quite understand.<\/p>\n

The socialite, 39, and the president\u2019s oldest son, 48, got engaged in December<\/a>, about a year after the two started being spotted in public together, despite Trump Jr. being engaged to another woman, Kimberly Guilfoyle, at the time<\/a>. (Don\u2019t worry about Guilfoyle\u2014by all accounts, she\u2019s thriving in Greece<\/a>.) Trump Jr. was previously married to Vanessa Trump, who is now dating Tiger Woods<\/a>. Anderson has never been married before, but she was once engaged to a chewing gum heir. Gum, golf, Greece\u2014these two have quite the sphere of influence.<\/p>\n

The shower looked like just about every other wedding shower you\u2019ve ever seen\u2014lots of flowers and attendees in floral dresses. According to Page Six, the theme was \u201cenchanted garden<\/a>.\u201d (It\u2019s always enchanted garden.) \u201cLove Trumps All,\u201d read the heart-shaped cookies<\/a> given to guests, which sounds like it should mean something similar to \u201cLove Is Love\u201d but instead feels like encouragement to celebrate the Trump family\u2019s happiness while ignoring all the human suffering the Trump administration is causing. Aesthetically, though, pretty standard-looking cookies. Pretty standard-looking activities, too\u2014in some of the photos from the event, you can spy slips of paper on which guests were invited to share words of wisdom with the bride and groom. I hope they got some good advice.<\/p>\n

Slightly less typical\u2014and the source of tongue-wagging headlines\u2014were the attendees, which included Donald Trump Jr.\u2019s sister, Ivanka Trump; his half-sister, Tiffany Trump; and Erika Kirk, the widow of Charlie Kirk, in addition to a swath of Palm Beach society, among whom this event was a hot ticket<\/a>. Notably not in attendance was first lady Melania Trump. While many made note of this\u2014and it feels all the more glaring after Melania went out of her way to give a curious speech denying any connection to Jeffrey Epstein last week<\/a>\u2014it\u2019s not hugely surprising. Melania skipped Tiffany\u2019s baby shower last year, and has reportedly clashed with Ivanka in the past. She\u2019s boy mom in chief when it comes to Barron, but she doesn\u2019t appear to make the Trump children that she didn\u2019t give birth to much of a priority. Still, even Tiffany\u2019s mother and Trump\u2019s second wife, Marla Maples, aka the woman Jr.\u2019s father left his mother for, managed to squash whatever beef they may have had to show up.<\/p>\n

Unlike Guilfoyle and Trump Jr., who were engaged for four years but never got married, Trump Jr. and his new fianc\u00e9e hosting a wedding shower seems like a good indication that they will actually make it down the aisle this time. Though details on their wedding are unknown, some outlets have speculated that it could be as soon as this spring and could even take place at the White House. A \u201cpolitical source\u201d told People<\/a> of a potential White House wedding, \u201cThis would set them up for future political roles, whether Don Jr. goes after the presidency or something else.\u201d To be clear, if Donald Trump Jr. gets into politics, it won\u2019t be because he got married at the White House\u2014it will be because he is the oldest son of and literally shares a name with his father. While I think there\u2019s a good chance this nonsense wasn\u2019t said by a particularly well-informed source, unfortunately there\u2019s an equally good chance it was President Donald Trump himself.<\/p>\n

The real problem with getting married at the White House, as the People article goes on to point out, is that the ballroom is currently under construction, after the president demolished the East Wing last year. Jr.\u2019s stepmom may have skipped his shower, but his father will always be his biggest opp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[12,75,105,3872,973,99,74,100,1902,79,19322],"class_list":{"0":"post-31463","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-donald-trump-jr","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-donald-trump-jr","10":"tag-ivanka-trump","11":"tag-kimberly-guilfoyle","12":"tag-melania-trump","13":"tag-tiffany-trump","14":"tag-trump","15":"tag-trump-family","16":"tag-trump-jr","17":"tag-vanessa-trump","18":"tag-wedding-shower"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116425426422794772","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}