Critics tear Trump granddaughter apart for 'let them eat cake' moment'

Kai Trump and President Donald Trump outside the White House on September 6, 2025 (Molly Riley, The White House/Flickr)

President Donald Trump’s granddaughter Kai Trump, an 18-year-old incoming undergraduate at the University of Miami recently signed there to play college golf, is being blasted on social media for her seeming insensitivity to her class privilege amidst the ongoing Iran war.

The eldest daughter of Donald Trump Jr., Kai Trump posted a video to her YouTube channel on March 8 showing her on a shopping spree at pricey sections of Erewhon Market in Santa Monica, California. Originally titled "I Brought My Secret Service to Erewhon,” Kai Trump has since renamed it to "I Tried the World's Most Expensive Grocery Store." As she spends hundreds of dollars on luxury items while joking about going broke, the video briefly shows Secret Service agents exiting the store and entering a motorcade.

This is a "modern 'let them eat cake' moment" Mike Nellis, a Democratic strategist, posted on X. The anti-Trump Republican group The Lincoln Project asked on X, "Your kids might get drafted to fight in Iran, while the Trump family uses your tax dollars to shop premium, organic, gluten-free cake.”

The two were not alone in denouncing the younger Trump’s behavior.

“The President's granddaughter is allowed to live her life with adequate protection but I think titling your vlog ‘I brought my Secret Service to Erewhon’ and highlighting how you're rolling around California with a seven vehicle (3 motorcycles, 4 SUVs) motorcade is...a misfire,” tweeted political commentator Doug Landry.

Author Brittany Belle, meanwhile, mocked Kai Trump for saying she might go bankrupt because of her luxury spending spree.

“Kai Trump: ‘I’m gonna go bankrupt… I’m gonna need to file for bankruptcy.’ 💸 “ Belle posted. She then quoted President Trump admitting he filed for bankruptcy six times.

“BOOM. Family tradition unlocked. 😳” Bell wrote. Journalist Karly Kingsley, also highlighting the class disparity between the Trumps and ordinary Americans, asked why the granddaughter is not fighting to defend her country in the war her grandfather started.

“Kai Trump is 18 years old,” Kingsley wrote on X. “Maybe instead of using Secret Service agents as a production crew for grocery store jokes about ‘going bankrupt’ while people go hungry, she can enlist in the military and go fight her grandfather’s war.”

Political commentator Molly Ploofkins reached a similar conclusion from Kai Trump’s apparently blase attitude.

“While American service members die in her grandfather’s war, Kai Trump brags about making her taxpayer-funded Secret Service follow her around while she shops,” Ploofkins wrote on X.

When it comes to her interest in golf, the granddaughter takes after her grandfather. The president owns 15 golf courses in the United States, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates and Ireland. Sports journalist Rick Reilly, an expert on golf who has written about Trump’s obsession with the sport, pointed out that Trump is infamous among caddies for cheating.

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