Donald Trump Gave Moving Speech at Tiffany’s Wedding About Not Spending Money on Hurricane Prep

Over the weekend, Donald Trump’s youngest daughter, Tiffany, married Michael Boulos, the Lebanese-born, London-based heir to a Nigerian commercial vehicle distribution and assembly company, among others. They met at Lindsay Lohan’s ill-fated Mykonos beach club, and rest is HER-story. (Tiffany’s story, that is. Not Lindsay’s. You’ll have to go to Netflix for the latter right now.)

There was a nice symmetry to the weekend’s nuptials. Tiffany announced their engagement with a photo alongside her betrothed at the White House in January 2021 as the sun set on the final full day of her father’s presidency. And they were married at Mar-a-Lago, once called the “Southern White House,” on the day his party lost the Senate. Frankly, that’s gorgeous. More beautiful than even the multicolored hydrangea arches over the aisle Trump walked her down.

Trump himself was of course there playing host and looking like he ate a fresh bowl of carrots just that morning. His wife, Melania, stunned, per usual. They seemed very much together and not at all tiffing over Mehmet Oz, the loser of Pennsylvania, as previously reported.

Ivanka Trump posted liberally from the wedding, as a proud older sister would. She and her family wore Tiffany blue, as in the jewelry store. It’s all very apropos! To quote Vanity Fair, “Tiffany’s name derives from that of the famous jewelry store on Fifth Avenue, adjacent to Trump Tower. Donald had bought the store’s air rights for $5 million when he was still putting together the deal to build the signature building that bears his name. Tiffany’s arrival was announced at a news conference in the lobby of the Palace Theatre, in New York, where Marla Maples had the year before played the sexy girlfriend of the wealthy showman Florenz Ziegfeld in The Will Rogers Follies.”

The rest of the Trump gals wore pastels—all except for Kimberly Guilfoyle, Donald Trump Jr.’s fianceé, who wore a funereal black. Ivanka cropped Guilfoyle out of a photo that she posted on both her Instagram page and on her Stories. One might think this meant something about how the family feels about Guilfoyle, but it could just as easily be that black ruined the picture. On Sunday, after a family golf outing and a little blowback online, she posted the full pic, Guilfoyle and all, with some hearts. Fixed!

All in all, this was a miracle of a wedding. Hurricane Nicole was downgraded to a tropical storm and passed Palm Beach before Friday, leaving perfect weather behind. According to Page Six, Trump did not mention air rights over Tiffany, the store, but instead gave a moving speech about how hurricanes cost money, and it’s better to take one’s chances by not spending an extra buck at an already lavish ceremony:

They were worried about rain. They said, ‘Sir, we are going to build a big tent over the pool.’ I don’t want a tent because if you build a tent two things: Number one, it costs a lot of money. Who wants to spend the money? And two, it’s just not the same. And I said, ‘Let’s take our chances, right Tiff?’

Congrats to the couple. May you always find the right metaphor.