What happens to Trump’s business If he wins? Eric Trump has thoughts
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW YORK—Twenty-five stories above Fifth Avenue in his sun-streaked corner office, Eric Trump talks about dazzling hotels and golf resorts in Oman and Indonesia, and a freshly signed development deal in Vietnam. Plans for Israel are on hold, given the war in Gaza, but “we’re going into Israel in a big way in the future." What happens if his father returns to the White House? “It’s too early to tell," said the second-born son of Donald Trump who helms the Trump Organization.
Still, by steering the family into crypto and establishing ties with the Saudi-backed LIV Golf, he is forging an expansionary path. Those efforts could cement his own place in the business world while also reviving concerns over potential conflicts of interest in a second Trump administration. “Should I stop all expansion? I don’t know what the answer is.
I tried to do everything right in 2016 and I got very little credit for it," he said of efforts to distance the newly elected president from the company. “We still kind of got stomped on." If older brother Donald Trump Jr. has become the crown prince of MAGA world, then 40-year-old Eric Trump is guardian of the family business empire.
Less fire-breathing partisan than his brother and not as recognized as his sister, Ivanka, Eric nonetheless might play the lead role in carrying the family business into a new era. Donald Trump, 78, still owns most Trump Organization assets and still gets involved in major decisions, but since the 2016 election, Eric has been running the show. His father, if he defeats Vice President Kamala Harris, will be walled off from the company, Eric Trump said.
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