During President Donald Trump's second state visit to the United Kingdom, he planned on
spending some quality time with the British royals, except Meghan Markle.
According to an official itinerary, the leader of the free world scheduled no face time with
the Duchess of Sussex.
Naturally, the royal rock star's absence raised quite a few questions about why she'd miss
such a rare opportunity to meet the President of the United States.
Meghan Markle may be officially apolitical now, but before she was linked to Prince Harry,
she was quite vocal about her beliefs, including the notion that then-presidential candidate
Donald Trump may not have had the utmost respect for women.
On an episode of The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore in May 2016, Markle joked that she'd
move to Canada, where Suits, on which she acted at the time, films, full time if he
won the election.
Then she got serious, discussing how the Republican party lost the female vote in 2012 by 12 points.
"That's a huge number, and with as misogynistic as Trump is, and so vocal about it, that's
a huge chunk of it."
What's more, in Andrew Morton's biography of the Duchess, Meghan: A Hollywood Princess,
one of Markle's fellow former Deal Or No Deal models told the author that when Trump visited
the set, he was, quote, "super creepy," and although some of the girls cozied up to Trump,
Markle went out of her way to avoid him.
"Trump has made it easy to see that you don't really want that kind of world that he's painting."
When a reporter for The Sun informed Donald Trump of Meghan Markle's 2016 comments, he
used a term for her that he previously reserved for the likes of his former presidential rival
Hillary Clinton: "nasty."
He told The Sun,
He did, however, praise her somewhat, speaking favorably of Markle when the reporter asked
if it was, quote, "good having an American princess."
Trump replied,
After Trump's "nasty" retort when viral, he denied ever saying such a thing, tweeting,
"I never called Meghan Markle 'nasty.'
Made up by the Fake News Media, and they got caught cold!
Will @CNN, @nytimes and others apologize?
Doubt it!"
Unfortunately for his alibi, The Sun released the audio recording of Trump's exact quote,
catching him cold.
"Please!"
"Boom!"
In addition to her general distaste for Donald Trump, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry also
currently employ a former Hillary Clinton staffer.
The couple hired Sara Latham, who was a senior adviser on Clinton's failed 2016 presidential
campaign, to head their communications team.
Latham also served on then-President Elect Barack Obama's transition team in 2008 as
well as serving as a Special Assistant to then-President Bill Clinton's Chief of Staff
from 1996 to 2000.
Markle was a supporter of Hillary in the 2016 election, endorsing the Democratic nominee
on Instagram.
Markle also wrote that she was excited to sit close to Hillary at an event in 2015.
Granted, Markle's past political outspokenness has gone by the wayside since she became the
Duchess of Sussex, but considering how Trump clearly feels about Clinton, perhaps Markle
wanted to avoid the situation entirely.
Trump has said some questionable things about Prince Harry's mother, the late Princess Diana,
in two separate interviews with Howard Stern.
In 2000, Trump told the shock jock,
Those were the nice things.
Only a few months after Diana's death in 1997, Trump made vulgar comments to Stern about
wanting to bed the People's Princess…but only if she got tested for HIV.
What's more, a friend of Diana's wrote in The Sunday Times in 2015 that Trump pursued
Prince Charles' ex almost to the point of, quote, "stalking."
Obviously, we can't say for sure, but combined with his "nasty" remark about Markle, that
seems like two clear strikes against Trump for Harry.
Sometimes the simplest explanation is also the likeliest.
Meghan Markle gave birth less than one month before Trump's second UK visit.
As such, the Duchess of Sussex was almost certainly focused more on doting on her and
Prince Harry's newborn son, Archie Mountbatten-Windsor, and less on worrying about being a good host
to the POTUS.
A source previously told The Sun, in fact, that Markle planned to take three months of
maternity leave and would return to her royal duties on June 8th for the annual "Trooping
the Colour" ceremony.
The insider, who dished to the outlet before Archie's birth in early May 2019, noted,
This is the closest thing to an official explanation we may ever get, so our best guess is that
Markle simply skipped meeting Trump in favor of grabbing a quick nap or spending more quality
time with baby Archie.
Who could blame her!
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