Donald Trump appeared to mock President Joe Biden’s placement at the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II yesterday. He went on to claim that if he were President, he’d have had a much better seat.
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Trump posted on his Truth Social platform. Alongside a photo showing where Biden sat. Trump said, “This is what’s happened to America in just two short years. No respect! However, a good time for our President to get to know leaders of certain Third World countries. If I were President, they wouldn’t have sat me back there—and our country would be much different than it is right now!”
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Biden’s placing at Queen’s funeral
Biden and the first lady sat 14 rows back from the front of the church. Royal experts say that seating 2,000 attendees, including many of the world’s dignitaries, was a potential diplomatic nightmare for those planning the event.
There was also the issue of transport. To avoid congestion around Westminster Abbey, many heads of state were instead invited to drive to Chelsea, and then catch chartered royal coaches to the church.
Dignitaries including King Felipe and Queen Letizia of Spain, the King and Queen of Bhutan, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, and the Emperor and Empress of Japan all caught a bus.
Biden was exempt from taking the bus and allowed to be driven to the cathedral in ‘the beast’, his security-protected limousine. He was also accompanied by a motorcade.
However, that’s not why he was placed where he was. The front rows were reserved purely for royalty and the heads of state from those countries where the Queen remained head of state, including Canada, Australia, and others. Making an exception purely for the President of the US would have been hard to justify to other leaders.
Donald Trump’s legal woes
One might think Donald Trump would have other things to worry about than Biden’s seating at the Queen’s funeral. He is currently facing a wave of investigations. Chief among them is perhaps the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago last month. Agents took away 15 boxes of classified documents. Trump’s legal team has argued the former President ‘de-classified’ the documents before deciding to take them to Florida.
Trump demanded a ‘special master’ be appointed to oversee the FBI’s investigations. However, yesterday, his legal team resisted a request from said master for them to come up with the evidence that Trump had de-classified the documents.
In a statement to court yesterday, they said it was not yet “the time and place” to provide such evidence. They said they would do so in a future, potential criminal trial to recover the property taken from Trump’s mansion.
If they did so now, “the Special Master process will have forced the Plaintiff to fully and specifically disclose a defense to the merits of any subsequent indictment without such a requirement being evident in the District Court’s order,” Trump’s legal team wrote.
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Online, many were unimpressed by Trump’s bitching on social media. Many reminded him he wasn’t invited to the funeral.
“If I’d been invited to John McCain’s funeral, I would have been given a better seat than the people they wanted to be there! For sure!”
“If I’d been invited to George H. W. Bush’s funeral, I would have been given a better seat than the people they wanted to be there! For sure!”
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) September 19, 2022
Here’s where The Donald was on the seating plan. pic.twitter.com/DNSMFcW24L
— Amanda Bail (@1scrummymummy) September 20, 2022
I know it’s hard for Trump to understand, but this wasn’t about Biden or any nation’s leader. It was about the Queen. This is why doesn’t get invited to anything. He’s got to be the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral.
— Roslynne Levine (@roz_levine) September 19, 2022
He wouldn’t have been there, even as sitting President! This day was about The Queen and her family, not the foreign leaders who came to pay their respects, and who did so with great class, respect and dignity. Something Trump knows nothing of.
— DTagg64 (@DTagg64) September 19, 2022
No thanks, We now have a president that doesn’t care where he sits at a funeral. He knows it’s not about him and he’s there to pay respect! Big improvement from the “alway put his ego first” previous guy.
— Chris Fleming (@chrisfleming91) September 19, 2022
Although not invited to attend the funeral in London, Donald Trump, along with the other former, living, US Presidents, is invited to attend a memorial service for Queen Elizabeth at the Washington National Cathedral in DC tomorrow (10/21). It has not been confirmed if Trump, or any of the others, will attend.
Ronbo
He lost (again). Can we flush yet? The editors need to stop dropping him back into our sight. Like a bad case of C-dif throughout the nursing home, tRump just won’t go away.
Do the editors even know that he feeds on, appreciates and NEEDS the attention? Starve him you foolish editors – stop feeding the monsters.
RIGay
Yup! As Cowen trained him – all publicity is good publicity.
Man About Town
He mentioned Third World countries. So he no longer calls them shithole countries?
Mister P
I can’t wait to find out if he has a bigger crowd at his funeral than Queen Elizabeth did.
Harley
They don’t let people into prison funerals.
Jim
There will be bigly crowds at his funeral but not out of respect!!!!
Mr. Stadnick
Do they televise executions?
IanHunter
Usually protesters gather outside the prison to watch the hearse leave after the execution. Never seen a huge crowd however.
My2CentsWorth
Most of the people will be MAGA idiots. He will have Tucker, Marjorie, Lauren and others of their kind as special guest attendees. Few of the world leaders would bother to attend.
jcool
if he does go to the memorial service in washington i pray with all my heart that he is seated BEHIND obama.
RIGay
I understand he sent an “Edible Arrangement” coffee mug fruit arrangement.
What a fu*king $hit brained a$$hole. And so are is cultists.
Kangol2
Hey Don the Con, your self-selected Republican (but not RepubliQanon/RepubliKKKan) Special Master, Judge Dearie, is waiting for that evidence, so get it to him, OK? The majority of us know you’re a liar and will try to weasel your way out of yet another gross lie and crime, but the clock is ticking so put or shut up (and go to prison, where you belong)!
bachy
He’s got the lousiest lawyers in the world, and yet he still manages to delay, obstruct and confound every legal effort to nail his frickin ass. You’d think the best legal minds in the US would be lining up for the platinum opportunity to shut this despot down for good – where are they?!?!
It is so frustrating seeing this ugly situation drag on and on and on….
LumpyPillows
I’m sure the queen only held out for so long to prevent having to think about Trump showing up at her funeral.
But, in true Trump form, he has made the queen’s death about him. Nothing new or unexpected from one of the worst people on the planet.
mcflyer54
Trump said that when he was in London the Queen and Camilla were competing for his attention. More likely they were trying to figure out how to avoid him.
My2CentsWorth
“Trump said that when he was in London the Queen and Camilla were competing for his attention”. Only his supporters will believe such a lie.
He might run and win.
brentmercer71
OMG is he for real? the queen did not like Trump and he was not invited to the funeral because she did not respect or like him. That sure does not say much for him and how people can support him is beyond anything I can imagine.
Raphael Klarfeld
I heard through political friends the he was hurt that he did not get an invitation to her funeral. When he was president he sort of foisted his whole family on to her. Maybe she just didn’t like him as much as he t
Jim
Sour grapes, since he’s clearly NOT invited. Never would be. What a loser.
Mister P
I was really making the joke that i can’t wait for the funeral.
LMG
A bathroom in Westminster or the nearest public gas station bathroom is all this sulking piece of walking excrement would have deserved. Even that would have been more than he was entitled to. He’s nothing but a perpetual embarrassment. When he finally dies and goes to Hell, will he complain to the Devil when he finds himself seated next to Hitler, Stalin, Attila, Genghis Khan, and his boyfriend Putin?
johncp56
Ditto LMG thank you for wording this better than I did, the guy is just scummy the smell will cling on us for a long time,,,
Bob
Mostly from the collection of fools he made judges for life..
abfab
I wish he would plan his own funeral and that it would happen tomorrow.
DBMC
Trump ridiculous? How unusual.
Brian
What an idiot. Obviously, the front is reserved for family. That’s true at every funeral.
The added element of royalty inviting more royalty was also a predictable thing.
johncp56
we all know where this ass hat’s seat is!!! let us hope Mar-A-Lardo is his seat for jail,, moron in Gold
ShiningSex
He’s such a child. Who likes this moron again? If you’re gay and support him…please leave this world
My2CentsWorth
I wish that I could understand why any LGBTQ and anyone who is not White would support him.
Jimmynj
Had Trump been invited, he would have been seated in the gutter, where he belongs. He is a petty, obnoxious piece of garbage. It’s time to lock him up for the rest of his disgusting life.