In a new interview, Eric Trump makes a rather audacious claim. Rather than enjoy a privileged, entitled and pampered childhood, he says his father Donald had him helping construction crews for minimum wage at the age of 11.
Related: Eric Trump calls dad from stage to tell him he loves him. This was Trump’s response.
In the interview, which appeared on Rumble, Trump talked about his father’s rise to the Presidency. Talk also turned to memories of his childhood.
Eric Trump says he worked minimum wage jobs since he was 11 years old on constructions sites cutting rebar, working a backhoe, clearing trees, and doing electrical and plumbing work. pic.twitter.com/m1NhwR7PfP
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) August 10, 2022
Eric says that if he wanted a bike when he was 12, the response he would get would be along the lines of: “Congratulations, you’re going out with construction guys to cut rebar … you’re going to hop on a backhoe, you’re going to dig holes, you’re going to grab a chainsaw, you’re going to clear down trees from a storm, you’re going to do electrical work and plumbing work … we were on job sites. We were 11 years old, paid minimum wage, learning a trade. That was expected.”
This previously unknown glimpse into the childhood of the Trump kids met with disbelief online. And mockery.
My family has been in for construction for generations.
We would NEVER allow our 11 yr. olds to “cut rebar, working a backhoe and doing electrical and plumbing work.”
Perhaps that’s why we are still in business today. ☺️
— Mamamia ✌️ (@Mamamia1151) August 10, 2022
I’ve been in construction most of my life, nobody that cuts rebar operates a backhoe and does electrical and plumbing in the same decade.
— Andrew Ebel ✌🇺🇦 (@fakebuddyrich) August 10, 2022
I’ll take “bullshit that never happened” for $500 Alex…
— Schrödinger’s Zen…(or Roger) (@RWNJ_) August 11, 2022
And I am am astronaut from Madagascar.
— Rand Taylor (@RandTaylor2) August 10, 2022
This thing was working hard? Yeah.. I don’t think so. pic.twitter.com/obHJO4bFB6
— PMG (@pmginmyhead) August 10, 2022
He went to boarding school in PA. That’s a helluva commute for an 11-year-old.
— KrsaMae (@Tita_Mae23) August 10, 2022
Wait a minute. Did he just admit that his daddy’s business broke child labor laws
— Tammy (@2utammy) August 10, 2022
Federal law sets a 14-year-old minimum age for most jobs, and higher ages for some work, such as driving trucks, so is he telling us that his father used child labor illegally???
— Naomi Tropp (@NaomiTropp) August 10, 2022
The construction site. pic.twitter.com/to9YBCFwFJ
— Matt (@maddmatty03) August 10, 2022
Eric, like so many of his father’s supporters, has raged about the FBI searching Mar-a-Lago on Monday. He claims it’s a political witch hunt and a gross overreach of power.
Related: Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert and others react to FBI raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago
The FBI has not yet confirmed what it found at the residency, but agents took away 15 boxes of documents. Two government insiders told Newsweek that they believe an informer at Mar-a-Lago directed FBI agents on where to look. They also said the search took place on purpose while Donald Trump was away in New Jersey.
CNY1983
first of all, i guess he got ivankkka’s voice coach to help him with the puberty-cracking voice, even though sean hannity thought it was “adorable”. second, does he ever tell the truth or is he in constant fox-liar mode and wing-it when he drops by after his “real-estate-developer job”?
thirdly…and most importantly – since the trump family are notorious liars – can anyone back the shit up? is there anyone still alive who remembers little eric using a flint to light the acetylene torch before he cut the rebar single handedly?
heres a tip for you eric: make sure you brush the bullshit out of teeth the next time you take a video for rumble. toodles.
Kangol2
Basically every word that emerges from the Con family’s mouth is a lie, including “the” and “and”!
jax florida
This guy is so dumb that when he lies he chooses to say his father broke child labor laws. He’s like a Boebert/Taylor Greene sandwich with Palin dressing.
jcool
he makes the character portrayal of him on snl suddenly seem more accurate
abfab
Tony Soprano would say the same things to A.J. But Tony was a much nicer person……….
kish
The tweet referring to him as a “thing” while holding a hermit crab tank (or whatever) is the best thing I’ve seen on this site.
Cam
He went to boarding school in another state. Just assume that everything the Trump’s say is a lie. It saves time.
Covid Hermit
My dad worked in construction his whole career. I asked him how many 11-year-olds did you ever see on the job site cutting rebar and wielding a chainsaw? His answer was NONE. That never happened. Like most anything that’s ever been said by someone named Trump, this is total BS.
Kangol2
Your dad’s and countless other construction workers’ truth is Eric Con’s lie. But seriously, these goons can’t tell the truth if their lives depended on it!
lather
That’s what was expected. We were expected to Lie!
GentlemanCaller
A lying liar, lying.
Jim
So Donald broke child labor laws too?
mateo
And so naturally, all that “hands on” experience as a builder has manifested itself in Eric’s current project: the SCION hotel chain, founded in 2017 and with its first property in bustling Cleveland, Mississippi (pop.: roughly 15,000). Oh, what’s that you say? Scion went under in 2019 and all plans for building hotels were scrapped, including that one in Mississippi? All righty, then….
CNY1983
yeah the SCION was repurposed because of the repiglickincant convention. all the russians booked rooms and hacked the delegates. after the convention CRICKETS…and the taxpayer picked up the tab.
MacAdvisor
I could well believe The Trump Organization would document Eric Trump working various no-show jobs so they could pay Eric a wage that would be a tax-deductible expense, rather than a child allowance. That seems very much in line with how the Trump family works. I am just surprised it wasn’t for the family charity. The problem is Eric is confusing his no-show jobs with things he actually did. Given most Trump supporters live in a fantasy land, that Eric lives there, too, doesn’t surprise me.
scotty
he’s the leak. him or ivanka. prolly him and prolly very unintentional. just like his mothers pregnancy which bore him.
ShiningSex
so even then he was doing illegal activity. slave labor. what a moron!! LOL!!!!
Kangol2
The truly delicious and ironic aspect of the FBI raid on Don the Con’s garbage pile Mar-a-Lago is that Don the Con faces felony charges and prison time because he and the GQP changed the law to increase the penalties for unauthorized handling of classified documents the way he did. Nearly every GQP Senator voted for it and Don the Con signed it, I guess to mock Hillary Clinton or some such nonsense, and now it has come back to bite him in his deranged, lazy, oafish, treasonous @ss! It couldn’t happen to a worse congenital criminal than Don the Con! If it turns out that Eric Con, Don the Con Jr., Melania Con or Javanka Con ratted him out, so much the better!
LOCK HIM UP, LOCK HIM UP!
Jimmynj
Eric is truly the dumbest Trump. Like he ever did a day of manual labor in his life. The hardest he ever worked was getting Daddy another Diet Coke (which isn’t working on that fat SOB).
johncp56
Eric Is a closet case, i,m so over this con grift Family of fools! go go away