The 41-year-old's comments follow the president's recent statement that it would be acceptable but "too cute" for him to be Vice President JD Vance's running mate before exchanging positions.
During an appearance on The New York Post's Pod Force One podcast, host Miranda Devine made a similar suggestion to Trump's second son.
“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…”
she said.
Rather than take the bait directly, Eric said:
“I think you have a different Republican Party now and I think you have a Republican Party of fighters.
My father’s taught people how to fight in a way that they did not know how to fight under the George [W] Bush years and the [John] McCain years.
I think we’ve gotten really good at it, right? And the reason I say we’ve gotten good at it is, we didn’t have a choice. We either fought for ourselves, or we died or we just didn’t win.”
The day following the announcement of his vice president Dick Cheney's passing, he made reference to the Bush administration. Regarding Cheney's demise, Trump has been silent.
Going back to the 2028 issue, Eric did follow Devine's advice that he would be tempted to leave the Trump Organization in order to launch his own campaign.
“If there was no other choice and it got so bad that you had to do it… but I’m happy, at least temporarily, to be retired from politics, as he does a great job in Washington, D.C.”
he said.
In other parts of the podcast, Eric defended his family's purported earnings of over $800 million from its cryptocurrency holdings this year, which Democrats have stated they would like to look into if they win the House of Representatives again after the midterms next year.
“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 said.
“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.”
He also discussed his father's ability to use bad luck to his advantage, pointing to the famous picture of him that was taken at the Fulton County Jail in Georgia in August 2023 and is currently displayed outside the Oval Office.
The younger Trump also spoke about the initial attempt on his father's life in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July 2024, stating that he was "unsatisfied" with the official investigation's inability to provide a motivation for Thomas Matthew Crooks, the gunman who was killed at the scene.
“I’m wholly p***ed off about it, and I remain p***ed off about it,”
he said. “We know nothing. 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.”
What legal arguments would support a third-term bid?
Legal arguments to support a third-term shot for Donald Trump substantially revolve around attempts to reinterpret or circumvent the 22nd Correction, which forbids anyone from being tagged chairman further than doubly.
Some rightists argue the correction only bars being" tagged" further than doubly, potentially allowing a chairman to serve a third term through race rather than election, though this is untested and extensively disputed fairly.
Another academic argument is running as vice chairman and also succeeding to the administration, but legal scholars assert this is blocked by the 12th Correction disqualifying anyone naturally ineligible to be chairman from serving as vice chairman.