Trump declares Britain's newlywed Princess Eugenie a 'total winner'

Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank helped by Princess Beatrice and Prince Andrew, Duke of York leave Windsor Castle in an Aston Martin DB10 after their wedding

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published 14 October 2018

As the old saying goes, your wedding should include something old, something new, something borrowed, and a factually fuzzy tweet from President Trump.

Britain's Princess Eugenie, ninth in line for the crown, wed Jack Brooksbank Friday with all due pomp and circumstance. Trump tweeted congratulations to her Sunday, apparently referencing her childhood surgery to correct scoliosis in a post that got the wedding date wrong:

Details aside, Eugenie now joins an elite club people the president has dubbed "total winners," which would probably mean more were she not already in an elite club called "royalty." Quarterback Tom Brady may be the group's leader based on frequency of declarations alone, but naturally total winners also include first daughter Ivanka Trump and, by way of a quote tweet, the president himself.

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.