-By Warner Todd Huston
President Donald Trump was taken aback over an attack by British royal, Meghan Markle, but he took the high road in reply to her verbal assault.
Trump is preparing for a meeting with the Queen and Princes Charles on Monday, but ahead of the official visit, the president was surprised over Markle’s 2016 name calling that Trump is “misogynistic” and “divisive,” Deadline reported.
When Markle’s comments were brought up, Trump shrugged them off saying, “I didn’t know that. What can I say? I didn’t know that she was nasty.”
The president was also told that in 2016, before she became a royal, Markle said she would move to Canada if Trump won. To that the president replied, “A lot of people are moving here (to the US).”
Despite Markle’s negativity, Trump wished her well. The president said he feels Markle will make a “very good” royal. “It is nice, and I am sure she will do excellently. She will be very good. I hope she does (succeed),” he added.
The Royals have excluded Markle from the state visit claiming that her maternal duties with her newborn son are keeping her otherwise occupied.
The rehashed comments occurred during Markle’s 2016 appearance on the far left The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore.
During her comments about the 2016 election, Markle called Trump “divisive,” and said that with someone as “as misogynistic as Trump,” the GOP was bound to lose the female vote.
“You’re not just voting for a woman if it’s Hillary (Clinton),” Markle insisted. “Yes, you’re voting because she’s a woman, but certainly, because Trump has made it easy to see that you don’t really want that kind of world that he’s painting.”
UPDATE
Updating to note that President Trump has said claims he used the word “nasty” is “fake news.”
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!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 2, 2019
Indeed, in the context to his remarks, Trump was saying he didn’t know that Markle said nasty things. He didn’t directly call her nasty.
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