confirmed on Truth Social<\/a> that \u201ccircumstances pertaining to Government,\u201d and his \u201clove for the United States of America,\u201d prevented him from attending the nuptials.<\/p>\nOn the May 26 edition of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the late-night host explained in his monologue: \u201cIt was a small ceremony with about 40 guests, none of whom were his father. Daddy Donald sent his RSVP via Truth Social.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kimmel then showed Trump\u2019s social post to the audience, which concluded: \u201cI feel it is important for me to remain in Washington, D.C., at the White House during this important period of time. Congratulations to Don and Bettina!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSee, he can be warm when he wants to,\u201d Kimmel replied. \u201cHe loves Don Jr. He just loves the United States more. He had circumstances pertaining to government to get to. And also flying to a private island makes him miss his friend Jeffrey, who he lost.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kimmel was, of course, referring to the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Trump has not been accused of any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein\u2019s crimes, and has previously said that their relationship ended decades ago. <\/p>\n
He continued: \u201cThis is a guy who golfs two, three times a week. He\u2019s going to UFC fights with Vanilla Ice. He was too busy for his son\u2019s wedding. But he did say Don and Bettina are going to have a great marriage. And this is a man who knows a great marriage. He\u2019s had three of them himself. Poor Don Jr. Without his father, they had to scramble to find somebody else to make a 90-minute toast about windmills and transgender weightlifters.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kimmel noted that Trump Jr. and his new wife are still reportedly planning a White House celebration for their wedding \u2014 one that the president and his wife, Melania Trump, are expected to attend.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, you\u2019d hope so,\u201d said Kimmel. \u201cThey live there. Can you imagine if they didn\u2019t show up to that one too? \u2018We wanted to make it, but we were unable to go downstairs.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-624938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Jimmy Kimmel jabbed at Trump\u2019s planned attendance of Monday night\u2019s NBA Finals game (Getty)<\/p>\n