Former US President Donald Trump criticized his successor in office, Joe Biden, for not attending Carlos III’s coronation on Saturday, in an interview with British network GB News broadcast on Wednesday.
“I don’t think he could physically do it,” Trump, 76, said in an interview with Nigel Farage, former head of the anti-immigrant party, Europhobia Ukip, who is now a television presenter. “I think for him it’s hard to do physically,” he said.
Trump, who will challenge Biden for president in 2024, described himself as “appalled” that the current president did not attend the investiture ceremony and described his absence as a “disrespectful” gesture.
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Interviewed on his own golf course in Scotland, Trump assured that, if he were in power, he would be gone.
Biden, 80, will be represented by his wife Jill at the coronation.
No US president has ever attended the coronation of a British monarch, US and British officials have said recently.
The White House insisted that Biden’s absence, which does not hide his pride in his Irish roots, was “nothing small.” In addition, Biden accepted the king’s invitation to pay a state visit to Great Britain.
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