Eric Trump refused to rule out his father running for a third presidential term — or announcing his own 2028 run to cement his family’s political dynasty — while sharing new details on “Pod Force One” about Donald Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris last November.
“I know you love the 2028, Trump 2028 cap, and people always assume it’s about Donald Trump, but it could also mean Eric Trump, Don Jr.,” The Post’s Miranda Devine asked the Trump scion in the latest podcast, out Wednesday.
“I think you have a different Republican Party now and I think you have a Republican Party of fighters,” Eric Trump responded.
“My father’s taught people how to fight in a way that they did not know how to fight under the George Bush years and the McCain years.”
“I think we’ve gotten really good at it, right? And the reason I say we’ve gotten good at is we didn’t have a choice. We either fought for ourselves, or we died or we just didn’t win,” he added, noting how the brutal scrutiny US political candidates are submitted to takes a toll.
“If there was no other choice and it got so bad that you do it,” Eric Trump said of his own political ambitions, “but I’m happy, at least temporarily, to be retired from politics, as he does a great job in Washington, DC.”
Democrats have already expressed interest in looking at the Trump family’s business — and may very well conduct formal investigations if they retake the House in the 2026 midterms.
That could focus on the reported more than $800 million windfall the first family’s received in sales from cryptocurrencies just so far this year, a figure first reported by Reuters.
“We didn’t have a choice. We got debanked by every financial institution in this country. We got debanked by Bank of America. We got debanked by Chase. We got debanked by everyone,” Eric Trump responded when asked about the family wading into crypto business.
Elsewhere on the podcast, Eric Trump also discussed how political attacks can have unexpected benefits for a candidate, such as his father’s “stoic” mugshot when booked at Fulton County Jail — memorialized now in a Post front page in the Oval Office.
“Isn’t the great irony of the world the fact that that’s probably the one thing that helped us with the African American vote the most and minority communities?” he noted.
“It took those very communities that had been so abused by the very system that were coming after this guy, and they’ve done this to us, and I’ve seen this before and I don’t like it.”
The president survived two assassination attempts in the final months of the 2024 campaign — including one that he survived by inches when lone gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, shot Trump in the ear as he looked right at an immigration chart during a rally in Butler, Pa.
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Eric Trump said the investigation into Crooks’ motivations has left him “unsatisfied.”
“I’m wholly pissed off about it, and I remain pissed off about it. We know nothing,” he vented.
“We don’t know who he is. We know he has multiple cell phones. Trying to figure out what 20 year old has multiple cell phones. The kid was cremated in like five days or six days. Like, give me a break. Most family pets take longer to be cremated.”
Trump, 79, has expressed satisfaction with the briefings he’s gotten on the incident “in terms of the bigger plot” surrounding Crooks — but his son still has questions.
“There’s probably national security things there, right?” Eric added.
“That’s what I would suspect. And so, for him to come out and say I’m satisfied is one thing. He’s the person that took a bullet to the ear. I’m a guy who’s not satisfied. I think it’s a joke that we don’t know.”
On the issue of his family’s legacy, Trump in an earlier “Pod Force One” episode declared of his kids: “All of them probably have a future in politics, frankly.”
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“Don is very good. A good guy. He’s an outdoorsman,” the 45th and 47th president said.
“Eric has done a fantastic job. … Barron is great. He is very tall and good. Ivanka, you know Ivanka? Yes. Very well. She’s so great. And Tiffany has done really well. She went to a great law school and did very well. Always a good student.”
Eric Trump in the latest sitdown with The Post recounted how he trolled journalists by printing the signature red hats of his father’s campaign with “2028” tacked on — with major media outlets questioning whether the president was prepared “to subvert the Constitution.”
He highlighted how his team also came up with a slogan too: “Rewrite the rules.”
The 22nd Amendment bars a president from being “elected” more than twice, though some MAGA allies like ex-White House chief strategist Steve Bannon have suggested Vice President JD Vance and Trump could swap places on the 2028 ticket only to switch back after winning.
“I think the people wouldn’t like that. It’s too cute. It wouldn’t be right,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One last month of the notion.
