Eric Trump wants everyone to know his old man is a fantastic guy and great dad…despite all evidence to the contrary!
In an interview on Kari Lake’s show (ughhhh), the middle Trump son opened up about his “unconventional” childhood.
And the anecdotes he shared certainly back that up!
While Eric says his dad didn’t spend a lot of time “throwing baseballs around” with his sons, he did make them work on construction sites.
That’s right: While most adolescents were playing sports or honing hobbies, the Trump kids were…blowing up sheetrock?
If you buy that, let me tell you about an election that was stolen…
“He also made us work very, very hard. I was on construction sites when I was 11, 12 years old, breaking down walls, concrete, sheetrock, plumbing,” said Eric. “Stuff I literally still do for myself these days.”
So let’s get this straight: Donald Trump put his pre-teen sons on construction sites and had them operating very, very heavy machinery? And everybody else was fine with this?
Apparently, child labor laws weren’t a thing in the …(*checks notes) ’90s!
“We were making minimum wage, and he put us on those sites, because he cared about work ethic,” said Eric. “There was no free time, there was no nonsense. ‘You’re gonna work. You want a bike? You’re gonna work for it.’”
An interesting follow-up would’ve been asking Eric when he actually worked on these construction sites, considering he and Don Jr. attended an elite boarding school (tuition is $61,000 per year). But nonetheless…
Yeah, that happened. 😂😂😂
— Kass (@Ka55andraS) October 13, 2023
Did he stiff him when it came time to be paid like he does many of his contractors?
— Conservativa Politica (@ConservativaPol) October 13, 2023
I’m sure Eric would have preferred a hug from Donald…
— Scott Koopman (@skkoopman) October 13, 2023
For years, the Trump boys have laughably tried to paint themselves as regular hard-working kids. Don Jr. fondly recalls his days growing up in “the rust belt,” since their fancy boarding school was in central Pennsylvania.
But this nonsense about toiling on construction sites for minimum wage at 11 years old is new. Then again, Eric says his father was always stern with him.
From a (very) young age, he claims Donald told his kids to stay away from illicit substances.
“I tell this story all the time. I would walk into his room every morning, give him a kiss before school. ‘Eric: no drinking, no drugs, no smoking,'” he told Lake. “Every single day. I’m four years old. What the hell is drinking? Are you talking about apple juice? What are drugs? I had no idea.”
Yeah, we have no idea either…
he reeks of kendall roy
— comedic canadian (@comedicanadian) October 12, 2023
Bet he’s disappointed in Jr, then.
— Claire Armstrong (@Claireabelle___) October 13, 2023
It’s been an interesting time for the genre of Trump men giving strange interviews to sycophantic questioners about their family lives. Last month, Donald Trump told Megyn Kelly he and Melania enjoy “dinners like other people’s dinners.
Melania, of course, just changed her prenup for the third time!
But it’s weird she would think that’s necessary, given Donald’s well-known generosity. As an example of his father’s kind-heartedness, Eric boasted about Ivana’s gravesite at Bedminster, one of his prized properties.
“We have a family funeral plot in New Jersey, and he was the first one to say: ‘I want her with us.’ That was pretty amazing,” said Eric, apparently dazzled about his father’s affection for his own mother. “Again, an ex-wife long removed. He’s an incredible man. He’s got a heart of gold.”
Lake responded she’s seen the plot herself, and remarked it’s “wonderful.”
If she means “overgrown with grass and weeds,” then sure!
Then again, maybe Eric hasn’t seen the grave in a while? After all, he’s been busy appearing in court for his dad’s $250 million fraud trial, and crying on TV.
Eric gets paid to say nice things about his dad. That’s the trump family-business model. They’re basically hostages to his paper wealth
— Luke Zaleski (@ZaleskiLuke) October 13, 2023
Oh, and we forgot to mention, Donald may have received tax breaks for burying Ivana at Bedminster. The Trump family worked to establish a nonprofit cemetery company in Hackettstown, N.J., which would exempt the site from taxes, rates and assessments.
Hackettstown is about 20 miles from where Ivana is buried.
While Donald could be forced to auction off his New York properties, maybe he can keep the gravesite? He’d probably be OK with that, too.
After all, he’s a family man through and through!
Baron Wiseman
This is nothing new. I’ve heard these childhood stories before; perhaps on ‘The Apprentice.’
Perhaps it would have been beneficial for Hunter Biden to have a similar childhood. Instead, look what happened.
woodroad34
I can see poor widdle Ewick, taking his bowl up to his *gag* father and asking “Please, sir, can I have more?”
Bosch
You seem to be suggesting that the Trump children turned out OK?
Also, are you aware that Hunter Biden lost his mother, his sister, and his brother? Let’s mock his trauma, because that’s what good people do.
abfab
Hey George Baron Santos. You and Eric should get a room and tell each other lies while you try to cum.
Baron Wiseman
@Bosch
Yes, I do think the Trump children turned out okay.
Compared to Hunter Biden they are living saints.
abfab
Baron. You are worthless. It’s sad. And it’s all in vain. And please, spare us from your childhood lies.
Kangol2
Bosch, not only did Hunter Biden lose his mother and sister, but he nearly lost his only life, as did Beau Biden, in that horrific crash. Baron seems to miss this fact. As for the Con kin, with the exception of Tiffany and Baron they’re lying grifters, but their father is worse than them and Hunter combined!
RGL
Baron please find somewhere else to have your psychotic break (or trolling jollies – whichever is the case). People like you refuse to believe in facts until you’re hauled in front of a judge or have to see a medical professional and then all of a sudden facts matter. If you do actually believe anything you post, the level of cognitive dissonance you must have to keep up must be exhausting. Generally, your posts are as intelligent as a wet fart.
still_onthemark
Oh Red Baron, your frozen pizza is not bad (for frozen pizza) but if you really believe what Eric is saying here, how he worked on construction sites at age 11 etc., I have some NFTs to sell you.
woodroad34
What’s amazing is that Eric claims the old gas bag believes in hard work, when it’s logged and reported that for most of the time the old gas bag was playing golf during that dark age of his “presidency”. Does this family know anything about actual “truth” (social or not)?
Bosch
Daddy taught him how to lie.
Baron Wiseman
@woodroad34
Yes, it would be nice to have some mean tweets, $2.00 a gallon gasoline, low inflation, groceries that are affordable, no wars, Abraham Accords, livable mortgage rates and rents all the while the “the old gas bag was playing golf.”
Kangol2
Woodroad, Baron forgets that under Don the Con we had Covid-19 raging, a collapsing economy, WARS (girl, did you forget the War in Afghanistan?), failed trade wars with China, social unrest and turmoil, global instability and an empowered Putin, and more. He lives in FoxNews never-never-land, we don’t!
Baron Wiseman
@Kangol2
Are you kidding me with this!?!
Before COVID hit, which the Biden Administration has done NOTHING to investigate the deaths of millions, Trump and his administration built America’s most prosperous economy in the modern era. More people died from COVID under Biden’s Administration, not Trump’s. As we approach World War III under another Democrat, I should have been clear and stated no new wars started under Trump. The Afghanistan war started far before Trump, but we all know how it ended – with an incompetent fool giving our enemies $86 billion worth of military equipment and 12 American service members dead from his negligence and incompetence. Trump imposed tariffs on hundreds of billions worth of Chinese goods to protect American jobs. China agreed to purchase an additional $200 billion worth of U.S. exports and open access for over 4,000 American facilities. Social unrest? Like what we see today in dozens of Democratic cities with people stealing with no repurcussions. Toothpaste wasn’t locked up at the local CVS under Trump like under Biden. Empowered Putin invaded under Bush, Obama and Biden. When did he not invade another country – under Trump.
Better get back to MSNBC and get your imaginary talking points ready. And by the way and correction, I don’t watch FOX News.
abfab
Baron Von Unbama (née) ShaverC Wiseman strikes again. New name. Same old shit.
m
If you believe him, I have a bridge to sell you. Or you’re brain dead.
Brian
His sleeves and his pant legs are so short! LOL. He looks like a grown man wearing boys’ clothing.
abfab
Tony Soprano sent A J to no-show work sites too. Same shit. NY/NJ gangsters. Low level soldiers trying to be important. Shove it, Eric.
quantum
Lol, one doesn’t generally go to a “no-show” job, hence the name. They also make frequent mention of “no-work” jobs, where you show up at the construction site and sit on your butt all day. I only know the difference between the two because they explain it on the show; at one point, Dr. Melfi tells her therapist, “For the first six months, I thought RICO was his cousin!”
abfab
LOL, and thanks for the clarification. Poor Finn did not have an easy time at the construction sites…
Another funny moment, at the dinner table as usual, was AJ saying that his granparents were NAPOLI DOPPOLLI.
And of course Carmella’s RAGAWT PIE used to bribe the guidance counselor for Meadow’s college admissions.
Fahd
Retelling what happened on the Kari Lake show or Meghan Kelly just brings us all down down down. Please.
¨Hi, I´m Eric¨ forgot to tell us about his time in the log cabin and then about that time he cut down the cherry tree…and…
I´m sure they have staff that coaches them in these stories.
I would mistake Eric and his brother for substance abusers, but it just may be problems with personal hygiene.
Baron Wiseman
@Fahd
Substance abusers?
Wrong presidential family. The crack, cocaine and hooker addict is Hunter Biden.
abfab
Desperation.
abfab
Baron..funny name. If you can find the time during your very busy and important days……….give us a list of the drugs you are now currently on and those you have tried to kick. We’ll wait.
RGL
Baron you OBVIOUSLY haven’t been watching the hearings. Not only is there no smoking gun, there’s no gun. Even Republicans had to admit that. And of course the Trump Justice Department found nothing. Obviously you think if you say it enough it will come true….. got news for you.
quantum
Mr Wiseman, in the 21st century, most normal people see drug addiction as a seriuos medical issue, not a personal failing. Heck, Rush Limbaugh, a man whom Trump admires greatly, had a terrible addiction to painkillers. Limbaugh may have seen his own addiction as a personal failing, but then again, he was probably high when he said that.
Baron Wiseman
@RGL
Wrong.
Then please explain the tens of millions of dollars being laundered to Biden’s 20 different shell companies on four different continents that nine Biden family members (including the granddaughter) received from foreign entities.
Why would these foreign entities (many of them U.S. enemies) wire laundered money to Biden’s shell companies? What is he selling for all these millions? Widgets!?! What did the Biden’s do to receive tens of millions of laundered money to their 20 shell companies? No one seems to be able to answer that question.
abfab
Baron von Shaver. Why don’t you save us the trouble. YOU explain it.
abfab
Baron von DeTrans….. You really should be working for the CIA and/or The State Department. Why are you wasting all of your time here?
oBose
When Eric was 4, circa 1988, the Donald/Ivana divorce was either imminent or well underway.
If his dad was still in the house as Eric was heading off to preschool, it was not for long.
When I was 11 and 12, the eldest of 5 in a family that couldn’t afford regular milk, only the cheaper powdered version, I also approached my parents about taking a job — a paper route — a 7-day/week 5am slog in northern Minnesota which also included collecting $2 and change from each of my customers every other week.
To their credit, my parents only had one condition: This is on you. We won’t be your alarm clock, or drive you around your route when you’re tired. We won’t co-manage your relationship with your supervisor from the paper. If you need help opening a checking account, we’ll vouch for you at our small-town bank, and then, it’s back on you. And by the way, manage your budget carefully; when it comes time to pay for new school clothes, or a bike or piano lessons, we may ask you to chip in.
My job as an 11/12-y/o was not hazardous (apart from northern Minnesota sub-zero mornings). In the bigger picture, it was a high turnover gig that I persevered through for 4 years. Eric might have been tossed onto construction sites and paid minimum wage at a similar age, but he and his sibs also spent their summers in the Czech countryside near Zlín with his maternal grandparents (Wiki).
Sorry, dude, that does not add up to extensive construction site experience… were you just on demo crews? And, what skills did you actually learn there? Were you paid over or under the table? I filed my first income tax return at 15, how about you?
FreddieW
I believe that like I believe Joe Biden took his sons to a bathhouse to hear Bette Midler.
mildredspierce
Regurgitated, go to, common man BULLSHIT. Daddy’s first lesson to his spawn was no doubt how they were to convey his public image.