Eric Trump may not be the first to come to mind from the children of the American president. There is a 35-year-old man in all family photographs. He worked in one of the family estates where he grew up. Eric appeared in 23 episodes of the American apprentice television program. He played a key role in his father’s presidential campaigns, and now runs a family business with his brother.
The man had many contradictions, for example, about elephant hunting, waterboarding and disappointments. But he is not so often mentioned by the media as his older brothers, sisters and father.
According to one of his classmates at college, Eric has Trump genes, but his worldview is slightly different. He and his wife Lara were called the most normal and least controversial Trump pair.
How is Eric and his family going? What ups and downs did a man overcome during his career? Read more about this later.
Biography
Eric Frederick Trump was born on January 6, 1984. He is the son of President Donald Trump and businesswoman and model Ivana Trump, who divorced in 1992. Moreover, Ivan was allowed to patronize the children. Eric was the youngest of three children, so he knew little about what happened during the divorce. With disgust, he recalled how friends brought him newspaper articles mentioning the dirty and public litigation between his parents.
Having matured, Eric and his brothers and sisters spent the summer with his mother's parents. Their grandfather Milos was an engineer, and their grandmother Maria was an employee of a shoe factory in the Czech countryside. The guys did not have video games, but only one English television station. Thanks to grandparents, they taught them how to hunt and save resources.
Eric's father has always taught him to be competitive. When he was 10 years old, Donald tried to push him while skiing, so that the guy learned to overcome obstacles.
Father and son
When in 2004 Eric was asked what he wanted to change in his parents, he agreed with the opinions of his brothers and sisters that it would be nice for their father to better understand things that he does not understand.
However, the guy was always one of the most important supporters of Donald trump, often appeared at campaign events and talk shows to speak out in defense of his father.
Relations with brothers and sisters
After the parents divorced, Donald Jr. took care of Eric, and therefore the latter considers his older brother to be a mentor. Today, they have breakfast together at the Trump Tower at 7 a.m. almost every day. They also got a few nicknames. Clinton’s campaign called them "stormtroopers." Eric chose to call himself and his brother "villains."
Ivanka Trump also did not leave her brother without love and attention when he was very young. Eric admitted that one day she took him with her to go shopping to turn her brother into a tough guy. Donald Jr., Eric and Tiffany in 2015 told journalist Barbara Walters that Ivanka is their father’s favorite child.
School years
Eric went to Hill School in Pennsylvania, as did Don Jr. According to sources, he appeared there with only one bag and a lamp. Eric Frank Runion, a journalist and former classmate, describes him as a serious, awkward, a little stupid, unpretentious, merciful and cheerful guy. He had a talent for woodworking, and in the yearbook he was nicknamed the great truant.
During the summer holidays, Eric and Don Jr. worked for the family business, helping repair and rebuild the vast estate in Winchester. They mowed fields, cut down trees, laid marble and performed electrical work.
University
Eric did not follow his brothers and sisters to the University of Pennsylvania. After graduating from high school in 2002, he broke the tradition and entered the university in Georgetown, where he received a diploma in finance and management.
While studying, Eric joined the Delta Sigma Pi fraternity. According to classmates, he did not go to clubs, but preferred a calm atmosphere.
Exemplary guy
At age 20, Eric was a shy and a little shy young man of high stature. Despite the lack of confidence that his brother had and the glamor of his sister, the guy was polite and talkative.
In 2006, after graduating from college, he began working in Trump's organization with his father, brothers and sisters. He made the most of the moment of the market crisis, calling it the greatest opportunity in the world. Eric bought up every piece of land their company could afford.
Up the career ladder
In 2007, at the age of 23, Eric founded his own charitable organization called the Eric Trump Foundation. Over the course of a decade, this nonprofit organization raised about $ 16.3 million to treat children with cancer.
Eric said he cut spending by making golf benefits on his family’s fields. He also hired employees until 2015.
Personal life
In 2008, Eric met Lara Yunasaku, producer of Inside Edition. The lovers admitted that they paid attention to each other while in the bar, because they were the highest of all those present. After the first meeting, they went on a date only 3 months later. Later, Lara said that Eric wanted to be absolutely sure that she was the woman of his dreams.
From 2010 to 2015, Eric appeared on his father’s reality show “Apprentice” as a judge in the conference room in 21 episodes and as a member of the audience in 2 episodes.
In 2012, photos appeared from the hunt of Eric and Don Jr. in Zimbabwe. The brothers were captured against a background of a dead elephant and a leopard. These shots aroused great indignation from celebrities, including Mia Farrow and Jim Carrey. Don Jr. said that the elephant population was above the permissible number, so they had to be hunted to prevent further destruction of the habitat. The same goes for leopards. The hunt was legal.
On November 8, 2014, Eric married Lara. Before that, they met for 5 years. They already had a dog named Charlie. Lara has also become a key participant in the Trump election campaign thanks to her media experience.
Eric has always remained faithful to his father. In October 2016, he gave a speech to protect Donald Sr. and the tax history of their family organization. The guy said that they paid a large amount of taxes.
In November of the same year, news of Eric's nightly adventures became known. He tried to sell pistols online at about 2 a.m. on the Internet. The sale attempt occurred a few days after an unknown shooter killed five police officers in Dallas.
In August 2018, Eric said that he and his family were attacked after his father took office. “They threatened me,” he said. “Our family is being threatened.” To all of us. ”
In June 2019, an employee of the Chicago Cocktail Bar spat on it. The security service took the culprit into custody. Eric said that it was very impolite of him, but did not bring any charges.
Now, with his father, who is running for re-election in 2020, Eric is gaining popularity in the campaign. He appeared at the Republican fundraiser and made calls to thank for especially large donations. He is entrusted with monitoring the finances of the campaign.
Eric and Lara recently announced that they are expecting a second child in August. The couple currently lives with their son and two dogs on the estate of Birkliff-Manor, New York.