“I think it’s hard for him to do it physically,” Donald Trump, 76, told Nigel Farage, the former Europhobic and anti-immigration party leader turned TV personality. Trump said he was “very surprised” that his rival for the 2024 US presidential election did not attend the coronation, judging this absence “very disrespectful”. Speaking on his golf course in Scotland, Donald Trump assured that he would have come to the coronation if he was still in power.
Joe Biden, 80, will be represented at the coronation by his wife, Jill. Never before has a US president missed the coronation of a British monarch, Belga reports. The White House insists the absence of Joe Biden, who was notoriously proud of his Irish roots, “is not a sign of disrespect”. Biden has already accepted an invitation from King Charles III to pay a state visit to the UK.
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