Eric Trump 2024? Trump Dynasty Speculation | International News
The US Constitution expressly prohibits presidents aspiring to a third term, despite which, Donald Trump has expressed in public that flirts with the idea of doing so. It does not seem likely that the current 82 -year -old White Tenant, to skip the law this time, but there is always the option to perpetuate himself in power through his children. Eric, for example, that this weekend has suggested his interest in Washington’s affairs in an interview that the British newspaper Financial Times He titled: ‘Eric Trump opens the door to a political dynasty’. “I think it would be easy [fundar una dinastía presidencial]; That is, I think I could achieve it, “he says in that conversation.” And, by the way, I think other members of our family could also do it. “
Eric is the third son of Donald Trump’s first marriage. He had it when he was a famous New York real estate tycoon, before becoming a star of Telerreality that would end up presiding over the United States. Fruit of that experience, Eric affirms in his conversation with him FT That, if you have doubts about taking the step towards the White House, it is for your children. It is not clear if it would be “fair” to make them go through what has happened in the 10 years that have elapsed since his father went down the mechanical stairs of the Trump Tower in New York to announce his presidential plans.
It was a surprise the news that Eric, 43, would not disgust the highest public function. His ex -wife, Lara Trump, is co -president of the Republican National Committee, but he was always the business -centered son, against Donald Jr., with a more accused political profile. The firstborn, 47, is a personality of the Maga world (Make America Great Again) and an effective fund collector for his father’s campaigns, has a podcast and writes a newsletter in which he comments on Washington’s news. It was key in promoting his friend JD Vance As a candidate for vice presidency in the last elections, and on a recent visit to Qatar he was asked if he would replace his father and replied: “I don’t know, maybe one day. That vocation, of course, is there.”
Curiously, Ivanka Trump -At 43, the second of the litter-had a prominent role in the first Trump administration (2017-2021) with her husband, Jared Kushner, which in Washington they called “the golden son-in-law”, but both are rather absent in the current government. As for the fry, Barron, who is the only son of the first lady, Melania Trump, is still young. He is 19 years old, but he has already left his stamp. His was the idea that his father came during the 2024 campaign to podcasts of the so -called male, in which he fished a good amount of votes among young men.
The rules of nepotism
Donald Trump is also a “son of”: he collected the witness in his father’s real estate business and, despite his efforts to sell himself as a man made to himself, research reporters Russ Buettner y Susanne Craig They disassembled last year in their book Lucky Loser (Loser with luck) Those “illusions of success” as an entrepreneur and proved that one of the two main sources of their wealth have to do with the inheritance he received (the other, with the money he made as a star of Telerreality). Perhaps because of that familiarity with nepotism, in the republican convention of July, the then republican candidate presumed family quarry and presented the world a new face: that of his granddaughter Kai, And it was almost all week surrounded by his.
Any of The descendants of the Republican They would have it very difficult to end up in the White House, a place that already ambitions a few candidates to be designated by the Republican Party in 2028 (including vice president Vance). But it would not be the first time: In the history of the United States There are two precedents of parents and children carrying the country.
The most recent is that of The two George Bush (which governed between 1989 and 1993 and between 2001 and 2009, respectively). It is a story that includes the frustrated attempt to place the Small brother, Jeb Bush, that became governor of Florida and candidate in the 2016 Republican primaries who consecrated Trump. Before that there are the cases of John Adams (1797-1801), second president of the country’s history, and John Quincy Adams (1825-1829), seventh.
The distant kinship chapter includes the Roosevelt and the Harrison. Teddy and Franklin Delano Roosevelt They were distant cousins and both were transcendental presidents for the United States, the first, at the beginning of the 20th century, and the second, between the great depression, from which he took out the country, and World War II. Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893) was, on the other hand, grandson of William H. Harrison, a miserable man: he brought the country’s reins only for 32 days, before he died of pneumonia in 1841.
Returning to the Trump, that of his possible jump to the political are FTin which he declared that “if there is a family that has not benefited from politics, it is the Trump family.” Taking into account the endless examples of conflicts of interest in which the power conquered by the patriarch and the businesses for which the children have been mixed since the inauguration of the president last January – a list that includes real estate deals, investments of billions in cryptocurrencies or the creation of the Memecoin $ Trump, with which they have won 350 million dollars – that statement tries at least one thing: in their conflictive relationship with the truth, the boy has come out the same as the father.