President Trump on Tuesday canceled a planned visit to Ireland.
“The proposed visit of the U.S. president is postponed. The U.S. side has cited scheduling reasons,” Laura Durkan, information services officer at Ireland’s U.S. embassy, told the Washington Examiner.
The White House didn’t go quite so far, but did note it’s at least up in the air.
“The President will travel to Paris in November as previously announced,” White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said. “We are still finalizing whether Ireland will be a stop on that trip. As details are confirmed we will let you know.”
Trump was scheduled to visit his golf course in Doonbeg, in County Clare and Dublin. The White House announced in late August that the president would visit Ireland on his return trip from Paris, where the president is set to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day. The announcement of the trip reportedly took Irish officials by surprise.
Irish opposition party members have decried the president since the announcement.
The trip to Ireland would have been the president’s first since taking office in 2016. Roughly 33 million Americans trace their heritage back to Ireland.
