US President Donald Trump said he would try to make it to his eldest son’s wedding but that it was “bad timing” because of the Iran war, AFP reports.

Donald Trump Jr, 48, is set to tie the knot for the second time this weekend, marrying Bettina Anderson in the Bahamas, US media reported.

“He’d like me to go. It’s going to be just a small little private affair and I’m going to try and make it,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office when asked if he would attend his son’s wedding.

“I said, ‘This is not good timing for me. I have a thing called Iran and other things.’”

Trump said he was conscious of how the media would cover it if he did go to the wedding in the middle of a war that remains stuck in a stalemate.