Hours before President Donald Trump kicked off his reelection bid last month with a Florida rally, a handful of his adult children took the mics in a Ritz Carlton Orlando ballroom to pump up Republicans for a fundraising call day.
By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or alerts from POLITICO. You can unsubscribe at any time. In addition to Don. Jr. headlining the California events, Lara Trump is expected to unveil on Tuesday a new campaign coalition called “Women for Trump” in Pennsylvania. The Trump campaign is in the process of rolling out a number of coalitions this summer to try to show the president’s support among women, Latinos and African Americans.
Sprawling political families are not a new invention of the Trump era. The Bush dynasty produced two presidents and a governor, with the whole family pitching in on various campaigns. The Clintons put their daughter, Chelsea, on the stump when Hillary Clinton ran for president in 2016, and the large Romney brood, with five sons, often acted as surrogates on the campaign trail and helped to humanize their father for voters.
As the Trump kids have adjusted to political life, they’ve made some major missteps. In 2016, for instance, Kushner and Don. Jr. took a meeting at Trump Tower with Russians who had promised dirt on Trump’s political opponent without notifying U.S. intelligence agencies — a moment still of interest to the congressional lawmakers worried about foreign interference in U.S. elections. Allies of Kushner and Don. Jr. did not comment when asked what either men had learned from that experience.
For the public-facing events and fundraising, Donald Trump Jr. is the star of the Trump kids. | John Raoux/AP Photo While Ivanka Trump has raised her White House profile considerably in the last few weeks, she has no plans to leave the administration to join the campaign and remains focused on international women’s empowerment and workforce development, said several political advisers and sources familiar with the campaign. One former senior administration official said Ivanka dislikes retail campaigning “whereas Don Jr. will go to a Lincoln Day dinner.
Family business.
If my father acted like this guy, I would definitely distance myself from him but they've been brought up to believe that money is the most importent thing in life and they cling to him because they don't know how to be out on their own. What do they say to their children? Sad.
The Trump family still hasn’t finished fleecing the flock.
Everyone in that photo should be in jail or a mental institution.
This can’t miss.
They cheated and used Russia to will Electoral vote in 2016 and will only win by cheating in 2020. They have so much more to loose this time it's their stay out of jail card. We must protect our votes!
Seems like we have some time and if it’s what you say I hate it especially later in the summer. TrumpTowerRedux
And why not? They were all born on third base and have nothing but time and money.
Maybe Trump’s kids will vote for him this time or at least register.
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Only fools would believe anything coming out of the mouths of these codependent buffoons... Wake up people we are being Punk’d by these grifters... they are in it to increase their net worth and not for love of Country... VOTE BLUE
So we must prepare for an even more structured & coordinated election interference effort by the Russians in 2020 than in 2016. Alas. cc: .RepJerryNadler, .SenSchumer,. RepCummings.
TRUTH Never in US history has there been a more horrific demagogue as this perversion of an American president. Media's insistence 2 rationalize Trump's vomitus rhetoric only gives credence 2 his soulless being. We WILL survive this divisive evil, as AMERICANS who stand UNITED!
He wants his kids in power after him. Just like other Dictatorships.
Children of the Con. Just another way that TrumpCrimeFamily will Hoover up any taxpayer dollars that escaped the other ravenous billionaires and the major corporations.
So this is what happens when a reality star becomes President. Hate reality shows and the WH is now just that. Sad days for America. Dumbed down and full of BS. Entertainment for the masses. Except for people like me who just want it to end.
More likely: the children are coming together in a pathetic attempt to keep the grift alive for 4 more years. Trump’s impaired.
They are a family criminal enterprise. They rally around the Racists Child Rapist occupant of the white house.
Grifters
And to think there was a time when I heard so many people say that in spite of Donald Trump his children were raised well and such fine upstanding people of whom one should be extremely proud.Trump has such good kids! How was the truth about this crime family so blatantly missed?
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Children of the Corn.
Fantastic group
That's going to be a huge pile of 💩.
Guys guys GUYS!!...I don’t like Trump! Ha ha right? Who’s with me?!
Mt. Hatemore
Oh, good. Now they’ll all be in one place at the same time. Release the lions.
Don't know why but looking at them makes me think of Children of the Corn. Sinister somehow
What about his woman?
Don Vito Trumpleone bringing his crime family together.
Grifters United.
Good. When the FBI shows up they can round up the entire family at one time.
TbBrame Who else is willing to join the freak show and pledge loyalty to protect the rapist/racist conman. None of them know what they are doing...just grabbing as much cash as they can before it fails.
gross...daily reminders of what we are voting out
A family of dunces.
If you bothered to research the family's working history you'd realize how totally un-news worthy this is
I just threw up a little.
tRump’s children have broken every rule related to nepotism. The more involved in the re-election the less likely people will consider voting for their father. AnyoneButTrump2020
Which is why our country has devolved into a banana republic/kakistocracy.
Even the Addams family would relocate if this bunch moved nect door.
Good one, and telling the truth
they are all three thieves in the night that are using the Oval Office as a stepping stone to wealth/ power. Rep. Congress FAILED to vet them, or to stop this invasion by trumps greedy kids. They have NO business in this W H or any political ventures. McConnell allowed this !!
The Trump 'race.' No one else qualifies.
Can’t wait to see them try the Oval Office position!
These are despicable and deplorable people. The represent the end of civility in America. basketofdeplorables
What would Medusa be without her snakes?
Like the mob.
A brood of vipers
Gross
Moving business and moving out of White House
This is too much all at once for a Monday morning. I haven’t even had my bustelo cafe... easy
Less a business, more a heist.😉
Jed bush raised alot of money too didn't help him won't help trump !!
Donald is clearly grooming Ivanka for 2024 and Beyond.
Vomitous.
More importantly is Mueller testimony on for this week?
Gross
I thought you d say a Tower in Jerusalem and one in Pyonyang
Just don't forget the CLINTON CRIME FAMILY FOUNDATION... Hillary runs for President and accepts MILLIONS from foreign governments as 'charitable contributions' to her husbands non-profit... Anyone else WOULD HAVE GONE TO PRISON....
This isn’t news if you pay even the least amount of attention to gaslitnation.
If they are not incarcerated?
Bye bye American Dream. Hello nightmare.
This is the greatest First family in US history
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may they fail at it like they have failed at most of their businesses!
And folks talk about Clinton’s and Bushes? At least bushes served the country. Yeah GW was sketchy but... and at least Madame secretary served multiple official posts.
Trump's new family business is 'Ruling America'. How does that strike you? How about: King Trump. Prince Eric. Princess Ivanka. Prince Don Jr. Now VoteBlueToSaveAmerica
RICO. RICO. RICO. RICO.
TrumpIsARacist TrumpCamps TrumpisARapist TrumpIsADisgrace TrumpHasKidsInCages TrumpCausedThisBorderCrisis TrumpForPrison2020 RacistInChief RacistGOP TrumpIsADisgrace TrumpIsAFascist TrumpisAChildRapist TrumpIsAnInternationalEmbarassment
Grifting right out in the open, yesterday being racist right out in the open, as predicted it’s getting worse, they’re feeling more and more empowered, they won’t stop until there is no opposition. Any American that can’t see this is either blind or being wilfully stupid.
Go back to Russia! Republicans are anti- American in every way! End the Russian coup in 2020! Bring Putin and traitors to their knees!!!
They want to round up more Catholics at the border in the expansion of their attack on religion. No other explanation for their concentration camps for the Catholics coming to America.
Well, no wonder. The Trump grift via the WH is way more profitable that the Trump Organization ever was. DumpTrump. Corruption. Nepotism. Collusion. RacistTrump RapistInTheWhiteHouse