Washington: Ivanka and Jared left the White House behind for a life in Miami. Eric is running the family business. Tiffany got married.
Barron is a budding strategist at NYU. Of all the Trump children, no one has stuck closer to their father’s side than the president-elect’s eldest son. President-elect Donald Trump looks at his son Donald Trump Jr at an election night watch party on November 6.
Credit: AP Donald Trump Jr, 46, has found political power and personal fortune in stoking the flame of the Make America Great Again movement his father started. He has an array of conservative-focused businesses, from a publishing company to a seven-figure annual podcasting deal. Forbes recently estimated Don Jr’s worth – largely built in the wake of his father’s political career after January 6, 2021 – to be about $US50 million ($76 million).
For that reason, his associates say, he has no plans to join the administration. But he also understands what his siblings and several first-term administration officials learnt the hard way: trying to serve as a gatekeeper for his father is a politically perilous exercise. In recent weeks, as President-elect Donald Trump builds his administration, his son has served as something of a loyalty scanner.
As they review candidates at Mar-a-Lago in Florida, the president-elect is concerned with who looks good and who can deliver a message, people around them say. His son is focused on whether they mean what they are saying, and if they pre.