Monday 19 September 2022 11:23 PM Trump MOCKS Biden for being sat 14 rows back at the Queen's funeral trends now

Donald Trump has mocked Joe Biden for being sat 14 rows back in at the Queen's funeral and said if he was president he would have been moved closer to the front of the audience of 2,000 mourners.

The former President said on Truth Social that it showed there is 'no respect' for the United States anymore - and insisted it was a good time for Biden to get to know 'leaders of certain Third World Countries'.

Trump did not attend the service bidding farewell to Britain's longest reigning monarch - as invites were limited to current heads of state.

However he has paid multiple tributes to Her Majesty, including a moving piece for DailyMail.com praising her grace, charm, nobility'.

In his first reaction to the funeral, he noted Biden's position in Westminster Abbey behind the Polish president. 

 'This is what’s happened to America in just two short years. No respect! However, a good time for our President to get to know the leaders of certain Third World countries. 

'If I were president, they wouldn’t have sat me back there—and our Country would be much different than it is right now!

Biden flew back to the United States on Air Force One straight after the ceremony - before the Queen's committal and burial - after he was given an aisle seat among the 2,000 mourners from around the world at Westminster Abbey. 

But he didn't rank ahead of other royals: the Emperor and Empress of Japan were seated in the 6th row, behind European royals and the King of Jordan.

The Bidens arrived at the state funeral via their presidential car The Beast in a private motorcade while other world leaders rode together in buses. American security protocols for the president are strict and require him to travel in the armored car with security vehicles surrounding him.

During the hour-long memorial service, the president sat directly behind Andrzej Duda, the Polish leader, and directly in front of Petr Fiala, the prime minister of the Czech Republic.

Jill Biden sat next to Ignazio Cassis, the president of Switzerland.

The Bidens were seated in the south transept section of Westminster Abbey, in an area of the church reserved for world leaders. The south transept contains the poet corner were prominent British authors like Geoffrey Chaucer are buried.

The first couple left for Washington D.C. after the memorial service while Commonwealth leaders like Justin Trudeau of Canada and members of European royalty, like King Felipe IV of Spain, went to Windsor for the burial service, which took place two hours after the memorial ceremony at Westminster.  

Funeral seating has a strict protocol for the heads of state, prime ministers and presidents, members of European royal families and other guests among the 2,000 mourners gathered at the abbey.

Guests were seated to the left, right and in front of the platform that held the Queen's casket. King Charles and members of the royal family made up the first few rows.

The Bidens held hands when they arrived at the abbey on Monday morning for the hour-long funeral service. The president wore a black suit and tie. Jill Biden wore a black dress by Schiaparelli.

Westminster Abbey began filling up from 8am as the congregation arrived up to three hours early, with Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron among the world leaders who paid their respects to the late monarch.

The Foreign Office handled the questions of who would sit where and by whom.  

Queen Margrethe of Denmark, who is Europe’s longest-serving living monarch, sat at the front of the foreign section. Gulf royals were behind them, many of whom attended without their wives.

But all had something in common - they rode to the funeral on a large motorcoach. 

The King and Queen of Bhutan, the Emperor and Empress of Japan, and King Felipe and Queen Letizia of Spain all came to the service via bus. World leaders like Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and  New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern also arrived via a fleet of buses.

Biden was allowed to ride in The Beast. 

More than 100 world leaders attended and concerns about traffic in London led to the majority of being put on buses for the movements to and from the funeral.

Biden was given an exemption to take his presidential limo. 

Lord Renwick, who served as British ambassador to the United States in the early 1990s, told the Times that he felt sorry for Buckingham Palace's protocol office as it worked out the complicated seating chart.

'You can pretend it's alphabetical order but it's not,' Renwick said. 'Biden isn't very ego-driven but he's going to be near the front. Macron [the president of France] would have hysterics if he wasn't given a place of honour. Olaf Scholz [the chancellor of Germany] wouldn't care. You've got to say to yourself: 'Who is going to have a hissy fit?' 

He noted it was standard for the American president to receive exemptions that other world leaders would not receive.

'We don’t permit huge swarms of protectors to be around them, although you have to rein off for the president of the United States. He is always surrounded by Secret Service agents wherever he goes,' he noted. 

Earlier Monday morning, huge crowds gathered in near silence to watch as the queen's flag-draped coffin, topped with the Imperial State Crown, her orb and sceptre, was carried slowly to a gun carriage from parliament's Westminster Hall where it had lain in state since Wednesday.

To the tune of pipes and drums, the gun carriage - used at every state funeral since Queen Victoria's in 1901 - was then drawn by 142 junior enlisted sailors in the Royal Navy to Westminster Abbey.

The thousand-year-old church's tenor bell tolled 96 times at one-minute intervals - one for every year of her life - stopping a minute before the service began at 11am. 

The longest-serving monarch in British history died at Balmoral, her Scottish Highland retreat, on September 8 after a year of declining health.

Her eldest son and successor, King Charles III, dressed in ceremonial military uniform, followed the solemn procession, alongside his three siblings.

Charles's eldest son Prince William accompanied them alongside William's brother, Prince Harry, and other senior royals.

William's two eldest children, George and Charlotte, who are next in line to the throne, also walked behind the coffin inside the abbey.

Meanwhile, Biden and his wife arrived in London late Saturday and paid respects to the queen on Sunday, viewing her coffin at Westminster Hall, signing condolence books at Lancaster House and attending a Buckingham Palace reception

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