Eric and Lara Trump Welcome Their Second Child
The youngest child of the president and his first wife Ivana, Eric currently serves as an executive vice president and trustee at the Trump Organization with his older brother Don Jr. Here's what else you should know about him:
He and his wife Lara welcomed their second child, Carolina Dorothy, in August 2019.
"Family of FOUR!" Lara Trump wrote on Instagram on August 20, 2019, along with a new family portrait with her baby girl. Carolina is Eric and Lara's second child. Their son, Eric "Luke" Trump was born in September of 2017.
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Carolina is also the president's tenth grandchild; Eric's sister Ivanka Trump has three children with her husband Jared Kushner: Arabella, Joseph, and Theodore, and his brother Donald Trump Jr. has five with his ex-wife Vanessa: Donald Trump III, Spencer, Tristan, Kai, and Chloe.
"I knew I always wanted kids someday," Lara Trump told People in March of 2017.
Eric, too, has previously hinted at wanting to start a family. Back before the 2016 election, he said, "Maybe when this crazy political race is over, we'll start working on the kid thing."
Like his older brother, Eric was married at Mar-a-Lago.
Congrats Mr. & Mrs. Eric Trump! #laragetstrumped
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In 2014, Eric married television producer Lara Yunaska at his father's family estate in Palm Beach, Florida. Notably, Yunaska broke her wrists in a horse-riding accident two weeks before her nuptials and wore fancy bridal casts on both wrists.
His secret service code name is "Marksman."
A 20/20 special before the inauguration revealed that Eric's secret service alias would be "marksman," an apt name considering his affinity for hunting exotic game. It’s an interest that drew criticism from groups like PETA in 2012, after photos surfaced of Eric and Don Jr. on a hunting trip. They posed with carcasses of animals like leopards, crocodiles, and elephants.
He has homes in Manhattan and Westchester.
Eric and Lara reportedly split their time between New York and nearby Westchester. Eric paid $2,036,500 for a three-bedroom apartment at Trump Parc East in 2007. He listed a third-floor apartment in the same building as his address on closing documents.
Eric is the tallest Trump.
Eric Trump is 6'5". His father is 6'2", Donald Jr. is 6'1", and Ivanka is 5'11". Barron Trump is also quite tall.
Close! I'm 6'5". “@ThatGeekRyan: Wow @EricTrump is tall. On TV he looks almost as tall as the 6'6" great @pennjillette #CelebApprentice”
— Eric Trump (@EricTrump) April 9, 2013
He broke family tradition.
Instead of attending the University of Pennsylvania like his father, brother, and sister before him, Eric attended Georgetown in Washington D.C.
He's been successful in the wine business.
Since launching Trump Winery in Virginia in 2011, Eric has been racking up accolades including the 2013 Rising Star of the Year award from Wine Enthusiast. Of course, in the Trump family you're not really doing something unless you're winning at it, or are at least able to use the word winning in a sentence about it. "I am thrilled by our tremendous success and the fact that we are not only competing, but winning against the finest wines produced anywhere in the world," he told Wine Enthusiast.
He appeared on The Apprentice two-dozen times.
Like his siblings, Eric served as both a boardroom judge and an audience member on his father's reality competition show, making 24 appearances between 2010 and 2015.
He took an active, though sometimes controversial, interest in his father's presidential campaigns.
In 2016, Eric spoke at the Republican National Convention, alongside his stepmother and two sisters. His speech talked up his father's salesmanship, and the need for a leader who "understands the art of a deal, and the value of a dollar."
In the 2020 Trump re-election campaign Eric reportedly acts as a campaign surrogate and keeps an eye on campaign finances. He has appeared in the news on multiple occasions throughout the campaign, giving interviews and sometimes fostering controversy. In particular, his social media presence has garnered attention for suggesting that the COVID-19 pandemic was a hoax, promoting QAnon (whose followers have been termed “conspiracy theory-driven domestic terrorists” by the FBI), and posting a photo suggesting that accused sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell attended the wedding of Chelsea Clinton—the latter of which drew ire from followers due to Donald Trump's own connection to Maxwell.
His wife, Lara, also makes regular campaign appearances.
Eric ran his own foundation.
He ran the Eric Trump Foundation, a charity that raised money for cancer patients at St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, from 2006 to 2016. He chose to suspend operations in December of 2016 amid speculation about whether or not donors would get special access to the President.
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Back in 2017, an investigative report surfaced on Forbes.com suggesting that his charity was used to divert a significant amount of money into revenue for the Trump Organization.
Since the organization's inception, the Eric Trump Foundation has raised more than $11 million for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, including $2.9 million last year, with most of the funds coming from an annual golf tournament hosted at Trump National Golf Club in Westchester County.
While no one has disputed that Trump raised significant funds for the children's cancer charity, Forbes later reported that $1.2 million in funds from the foundation had "no documented recipients past the Trump Organization," despite Eric Trump's public claims that they used the golf facility free of charge.
The article also suggested that the Donald J. Trump foundation, which takes outside donations, "used the Eric Trump Foundation to funnel $100,000 in donations into revenue for the Trump Organization."
Per Washington Post reporter David Fahrenthold's Twitter account, Eric Trump responded to the Forbes accusations through a spokesperson. "Contrary to recent reports, at no time did the Trump Organization profit in any way from the foundation or any of its activities," reads the statement.
"While people can disagree on political issues, to infer malicious intent on a charity that has changed so many lives, is not only shameful but truly disgusting. At the end of the day the only people who lose are the children of St. Jude and other incredibly worthy causes."
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