Eric Trump Height, Age, Wife, Family, Biography

Some Lesser Known Facts About Eric Trump

• When he was six years old, his parents divorced in 1990.
  

  A childhood picture of Eric Trump with his father

• As a child, he used to spend summers in the Czech countryside near Zlín with his grandparents.

• His maternal grandfather, Miloš Zelníček, was an engineer. He passed away in 1990.

• His maternal grandmother, Maria, worked in a shoe factory.

• He learnt hunting and fishing from his maternal grandfather.

• From a young age, he started attending meetings at work sites with his father, Donald Trump.

• Once, he shared in a media conversation that he trimmed lawns, laid tiles, and did other jobs on his father’s properties when he was young.

• During his school days, he thought about pursuing other careers but chose to join the family business.

• After completing his formal education, Eric Trump started working as an executive vice president of the development and acquisitions department at the Trump Organization.

• He then worked with his sister, Ivanka Trump, to redesign and renovate Trump National Doral and its Blue Monster golf course in Miami, Florida.

• In 2007, Eric Trump started the Eric Trump Foundation to raise money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Tennessee.

• In 2008, Trump claimed that Russians were a big part of their high-end real estate sales. He added that a lot of money was coming from Russia.

• Eric Trump likes playing golf and hunting in his free time.

• In 2010, PETA criticized him for an African hunting trip with his older brother, Donald Trump Jr. They went to Zimbabwe, where they killed elephants and leopards during an organized safari.
  

  Eric Trump with his brother after hunting a leopard

• PETA criticised the brothers, but Zimbabwe’s Parks and Wildlife Management Authority supported them and called the allegations of illegal hunting “baseless” and “false.”

• The brothers defended their actions on Twitter. They wrote that they were hunters and long-time supporters of the outdoors.

• Their father, Donald Trump, publicly supported his sons and defended their actions in an interview with a media house.

• From 2010 to 2015, he appeared as a boardroom judge on his father’s reality television series The Apprentice, which aired on NBC.
  

  Eric Trump in a still from the television series The Apprentice

• On 30 November 2012, the Eric Trump Foundation promised to raise $20 million in ten years to secure naming rights for the Eric Trump Foundation Surgery & ICU Center at St. Jude.

• In 2013, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital announced that the 7th Annual Eric Trump Foundation Golf Invitational had raised $1.5 million.

• Donald Trump launched his 2016 presidential campaign on 16 June 2015, at Trump Tower in New York City.

• Eric Trump worked as an advisor, fundraiser, and campaign representative.

• He and his wife travelled to many states to campaign for his father.
  

  Eric Trump with his father and wife after attending a political campaign in 2016

• On 2 August 2016, during an interview with a news channel, he was asked about his father’s recent comment on workplace sexual harassment.

• Donald Trump had said that if his daughter faced harassment, he hoped she would find another job or change careers. Eric responded and said,
  

  Ivanka is a strong, powerful woman; she wouldn’t allow herself to be subjected to it.”

• The Eric Trump Foundation’s 2016 tax return, under the name Curetivity Foundation, showed donations increased from $1.8 million in 2015 to $3.2 million in 2016.

• It donated $2.91 million to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and smaller amounts to other charities.

• It also paid $145,000 to various businesses owned by the Trump family.

• In 2016, the fundraising president of St. Jude stated that the Eric Trump Foundation donated $16.3 million to the hospital.
  

  Eric Trump with his father at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

• On 30 December 2016, Richard C. Shadyac Jr., president of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, wrote to the Eric Trump Foundation and stated that the foundation had raised $16.3 million in ten years.

• On 21 December 2016, Eric Trump announced that he would stop active fundraising for the foundation after 31 December 2016.

• According to a Forbes report, the charity funded an intensive-care unit at St. Jude and cancer research.

• Eric Trump stated that the foundation’s expense ratio was 12.6%, and the Trump Organization never made a profit from it.

• Forbes reported that over $500,000 was sanctioned for cancer patients but was given to other charities. Many of these charities were linked to the Trump family.

• Four of these charities later paid to organise golf tournaments at Trump-owned courses.

• The Eric Trump Foundation claimed that its golf charity events raised money only for St. Jude and 95-100% of funds went to the hospital.

• However, public tax records showed that a large part of the funds went to cover event costs paid to the Trump Organization for using its facilities.

• The foundation also donated money to other charities including three animal welfare groups and a California wine industry.

• In June 2017, the New York Attorney General’s Office launched an investigation into the foundation after the Forbes report.

• In 2017, reportedly, Eric Trump claimed that they did not need American banks because they received funding from Russia.

• He also mentioned that Russian investors such as golf enthusiasts, were heavily invested in their projects.

• In 2019, during the Trump-Ukraine scandal, President Donald Trump asked Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden. Eric Trump then criticized Hunter for benefiting from his father’s position.

• Eric claimed that when his father, Donald Trump, became president of America, then their family stopped doing international business deals.

• After that, Donald Trump appointed Eric as a top executive in the family business, which continued to operate worldwide.

• In October 2019, Eric Trump criticized the Bidens and asked them why political families get rich.

• In May 2020, he told a news channel that stay-at-home orders during the COVID-19 pandemic were a strategy by Democrats. It was done by Joe Biden to prevent his father’s reelection by stopping large rallies. Trump claimed,
  

  After Election Day, Coronavirus will magically all of a sudden go away and disappear and everybody will be able to reopen.”

• In September 2020, Eric Trump shared a false video that showed Joe Biden using a teleprompter.

• After his father’s defeat in the 2020 election, Eric Trump tried to overturn the results. He claimed that the Republican lawmakers changed the results.

• He also shared a fake video that claimed that Trump ballots were being burned.
  

  A snip of Eric Trump’s false video post

• On 6 January 2021, on the day of the U.S. Capitol riots, Eric Trump spoke at the ‘Save America’ rally with his wife, Lara, and brother, Donald Trump Jr.

• After the attack, he promoted the false conspiracy theory that Antifa was behind the Capitol riot.
  

  Eric Trump at Save America speech

• In April 2021, Eric Trump and his wife bought a $3.2 million home in Jupiter, Florida.

• On 16 February 2024, a court ruling banned Eric Trump from working as an officer or director of any New York corporation, including the Trump Organization, for two years.

• He is often spotted enjoying alcoholic beverages on various occasions.
  

  Eric Trump while enjoying beer

• He often shares pictures of his pets on social media.
  

  Eric Trump posing with his family and pets