5 surprising celebrity guests at Donald and Melania Trump’s wedding – Anna Wintour, Elton John and Gayle King attended, but were Bill and Hillary Clinton really paid to go?
We take a closer look at the surprising guests who showed up to Donald and Melania’s star-studded affair …
Elton John
Former American national security adviser John Bolton revealed in his book, The Room Where it Happened: A White House Memoir, that Trump tried to have a signed copy of John’s Rocket Man record delivered to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, but the star was not pleased.
Billy Joel
The Uptown Girl hitmaker paid tribute to Trump at his third wedding with a track he titled That’s Why The Donald is a Trump. He also teamed up with Paul Anka to serenade him with Anka’s tune Diana. But since then, Joel hasn’t been shy about criticising Trump, calling him a “terrible president” on CBS Sunday Morning in 2017 as he blasted Trump’s reactions to race issues in America and his border policy.
Gayle King
Sixteen years ago, before her bombshell interviews with the likes of R Kelly and former US president Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey’s best friend Gayle King was one of the Trumps’ wedding guests.
Now that she is a news anchor, King has tried to remain neutral when discussing her former friend in the political realm, but towards the end if his term she criticised his comments about the Covid-19 pandemic and his approach to race issues in the US.
Anna Wintour
The Vogue boss has schmoozed with Donald and Ivanka Trump for years, and the fashion magazine even featured Melania on the cover to celebrate her wedding. However, Wintour did not support a Trump presidency, according to CNN.
Hillary and Bill Clinton
After Bill Clinton left the White House in 2001, Trump donated to Hillary’s Senate campaign and, years later, they showed up to watch him say “I do”. But Trump claims he essentially “paid” the pair to attend the nuptials, according to The Daily Beast.
Ahead of his run against Hillary in the 2016 presidential election, he tried to distance himself from Democratic politicians. The former US president told Fox News host Chris Wallace in 2017 that he didn’t understand how his donations would be used. “I didn’t know the money would be used on private jets going all over the world,” he said.
The former White House residents can now hardly be in the same room together.
- Vogue’s Anna Wintour, Billy Joel and Oprah’s pal Gayle King all attended the lavish Mar-a-Lago ceremony – but didn’t support the Trump presidency
- The reality TV star almost gave Kim Jong-un a copy of Elton John’s single Rocket Man even though the singer refused to associate his music with Trump’s campaign