{"id":155046,"date":"2025-06-28T18:45:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T18:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/eric-trump-suggests-he-could-run-for-president-when-his-fathers-term-ends-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T18:45:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T18:45:57","slug":"eric-trump-suggests-he-could-run-for-president-when-his-fathers-term-ends-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/eric-trump-suggests-he-could-run-for-president-when-his-fathers-term-ends-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Trump suggests he could run for president when his father\u2019s term ends – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Forty-one-year-old has stayed away from politics, but says \u2018political path would be an easy one\u2019 if he chose to pursue it
Eric Trump has hinted that he or another of the Trump family could run for president when his father\u2019s second term in the White House comes to an end.
Eric, who is co-executive vice-president of the Trump Organization, said, the road to the White House \u201cwould be an easy one\u201d if he decided to follow in his father\u2019s footsteps.
In an interview with the Financial Times<\/a>, he said: \u201cThe real question is: \u2018Do you want to drag other members of your family into it?\u2026 Would I want my kids to live the same experience over the last decade that I\u2019ve lived?
\u201cYou know, if the answer was yes, I think the political path would be an easy one, meaning, I think I could do it,\u201d he added. \u201cAnd by the way, I think other members of our family could do it too.\u201d
Unlike his other siblings, Donald Jr and Ivanka Trump, the 41-year-old has mostly stayed away from politics, focusing instead on running the family business since his father entered the Oval Office in 2017.
However, he seems to have kept one eye on politics this whole time, saying he found himself \u201cwholly unimpressed by half the politicians\u201d he sees and that he could do the job \u201cvery effectively\u201d.
The US vice-president, JD Vance, and the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, are expected to be the frontrunners for the GOP nomination, but when asked if 2024 would be the last election with a Trump on the ballot, Eric Trump said: \u201cI don\u2019t know \u2026\u2009Time will tell. But there\u2019s more people than just me.\u201d
He added: \u201cThe question is, do you want to do it? And do you want to subject the people that you love to the brutality of this system? And I\u2019m not sure if I can answer that question yet.\u201d
The president\u2019s son also addressed criticism that his family has profited from the presidency. When asked whether the White House has become another means by which is family could make money, he was adamant in his denial. \u201cIf there\u2019s one family that hasn\u2019t profited off politics, it\u2019s the Trump family,\u201d he said.
\u201cIn fact, 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. The opportunity cost, the legal cost, the toll it\u2019s taken on our family has been astronomical.\u201d
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He said that the Trump family had spent close to $500m \u201cjust defending ourselves from Russia shams, fake hoaxes, dirty dossiers about the unthinkable\u201d.
The president\u2019s stake in Trump Media & Technology Group is now worth about $2bn on paper, a valuation rivalled by his family\u2019s crypto holdings.
President Trump received $630m alone last year from a range of products, including cryptocurrency, as well as licensing his name for real estate projects, watches, guitars, and Bibles. According to Eric Trump, the Trump Organization is worth between $8bn and $12bn.<\/p>\n

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