Donald Trump known as Joe Biden 'very disrespectful' for skipping King Charles' coronation, however no US president has ever attended one

• Joe Biden won’t be at King Charles’ coronation, which Donald Trump known as “very disrespectful.”
• No US president has ever attended a British coronation. Eisenhower skipped Queen Elizabeth’s.
• First woman Jill Biden will attend the coronation on Saturday and lead the US delegation.

Former president Donald Trump blasted President Joe Biden for not attending King Charles III’s upcoming coronation, even if no US president has ever attended one.

“Actually, he must be right here as our consultant of our nation,” Trump told British outlet GB News in an interview on Could 3. “I used to be very shocked, I believe it’s extremely disrespectful for him to not be right here.”

Trump additionally appeared to reference Biden’s age affecting his skill to journey, telling GB Information, “I do not suppose he can do it bodily.”

Biden took 18 worldwide journeys throughout his first two years in workplace, in response to the Pew Analysis Middle. To date in 2023, he has traveled to Mexico, Poland, Canada, Eire, and took a shock journey to Ukraine.

Traditionally, US presidents have all the time despatched delegations to British coronations and haven’t attended themselves

Biden’s absence on the coronation retains with historic precedent. President Dwight D. Eisenhower despatched 4 representatives to Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation in 1953, in response to The New York Instances. President Franklin D. Roosevelt skipped King George VI’s in 1937 and despatched a delegation led by Basic John J. Pershing, a World Warfare I commander, Boston College historical past professor Arianne Chernock wrote for The Dialog. President William Howard Taft despatched mining engineer John Hays Hammond in his stead to King George V’s coronation in 1911, The New York Instances reported.

Whereas each the president and the primary woman traveled to the UK to attend Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral in September, solely Jill Biden will attend the coronation on behalf of the US, main a delegation that has but to be introduced.

In response to a White Home readout of a telephone name between Biden and Charles in April, the president “congratulated the King on his upcoming Coronation” and “conveyed his need to satisfy with the King in the UK at a future date.”