The Guardian reports Donald Trump’s family is looking to install a legacy in the White House.
Eric Trump told Financial Times that he or another member of the Trump family could run for president when his father’s second term in the White House ends more than three years from now.
Donald Trump’s third child and second son is currently co-executive vice-president of the Trump Organization, and says he is “wholly unimpressed by half the politicians” he sees and believes he could do the job “very effectively”.
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“You know, if the answer was ‘yes’, I think the political path would be an easy one, meaning, I think I could do it,” said Eric Trump. “And by the way, I think other members of our family could do it too.”
The president’s son denied to Financial Times that the Trump family has profited from the presidency.
“If there’s one family that hasn’t profited off politics, it’s the Trump family,” he said, despite the Guardian reporting Donald Trump getting $630 million last year from a range of products, including cryptocurrency, “as well as licensing his name for real estate projects, watches, guitars, and Bibles.”
Trump raked in about $148 million from a dinner and a White House tour he offered to the top 25 leading $Trump memecoin buyers. The president’s stake in Trump Media & Technology Group is now worth about $2 billion, which the Guardian claims rivals the family’s crypto holdings.
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“I would sit there and say that we [would have] had many more zeros behind our name had my father not run in the first place,” Eric Trump insisted. “The opportunity cost, the legal cost, the toll it’s taken on our family has been astronomical.”
The Guardian predicts Vice President, JD Vance or Secretary of State Marco Rubio to be frontrunners in GOP primaries, but Eric Trump argued the field could easily be wider than just Vance, Rubio and himself.
“Time will tell. But there’s more people than just me,” he said.
Read the full Guardian report at this link.