Eric Trump Strikes Again, Trump’s Son Doesn’t Know How Money, Politics, Or Millennials Work In Real Life

Eric Trump told Fox News that his father, Donald Trump, had “gone from just about nothing,” when discussing the candidates millennial appeal.

The younger Trump, who has been acting as a surrogate for his father’s campaign, commended Donald Trump’s entrepreneurial rise even though the Republican candidate had the advantage of receiving a $1 million loan from his father, Fred Trump, in the 1970s.

The conversation began on Fox News when Eric relayed the story of how his father had become a real estate magnate in New York. CNN reports that Eric Trump framed the endorsement as an appeal to millennial voters.

Since election day is getting closer and closer, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has begun reaching out to different demographics of voters. Millennials and African-American populations are on the Trump campaign’s radar, considering the candidate has the least amount of support from those demographics. According to a Politico survey conducted in April, Trump has the lowest favorability rating out of all the presidential candidates when it comes to millennials.

Thirty-two-year-old Eric Trump, a millennial himself, didn’t go unchecked for his statements about his father’s success.

“Well, I think he’s a guy who has been an entrepreneurial guy. He’s built an amazing company. He’s become the epitome of the American dream. He’s gone from just about nothing into, you know, a man who –” the Trump tycoon heir said, before he was cut off.

Julie Roginsky, the show’s co-host, didn’t miss a beat and fact checked Eric Trump immediately, before he could even finish his statement.

“Nothing? He got a million bucks,” Roginsky quipped, addressing Donald Trump’s loan from his father.

“Listen, he’s built an unbelievable empire,” Trump said, defensively answering the co-host. Trump then tried to bring it back around to the millennial generation’s respect for self-starters, such as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

“He’s epitomized what America is all about: opportunity and working hard and being able to achieve your dreams and what you want to succeed, right? It’s no different from a Zuckerberg, right, who went out with a great idea like Facebook and developed this idea and built it and grew it and grew it and grew it. That’s achieving something, right? And I think it is very different than a person who has been career politician.”

The fact that Donald Trump probably wouldn’t have succeeded in business without his father’s $1 million loan seems lost on Eric Trump. In fact, the youngest Trump has an odd slant on politics and issues in general, especially when it comes to understanding the political inclinations of millennial voters.

Trump demonstrated his limited understanding of millennial values when the New Yorker said that the demographic only cares about certain issues as they pertain to them. Trump eventually attributed this lack of knowledge to the average age of a millennial.

“They haven’t lived their lives long enough to understand… the broad stroke of issues,” stated Trump, who is in his early 30s.

“They obviously understand a lot of issues as it pertains to them, student debt, and this and that,” said Trump, who can literally name no other issues that millennials may find important. “And so I just think there is a disconnect between somebody who is constantly talking about policy and this and that, than a man who’s built a great company.”

Considering Donald Trump has the lowest polling numbers among millennial voters, Eric’s argument that that generation will gravitate to his father because of his entrepreneurial skills is tenuous at best. Polls have demonstrated that millennials often do not support Trump because of his xenophobia, racism, and poor record pertaining to women.

The youngest Trump has been campaigning for his father since Donald Trump’s announced his intent to run for president, but sometimes it seems like the Trump son does more harm than good on the campaign trail. Recently, Eric Trump posted a picture on Twitter comparing Syrian refugees to Skittles, which was another low point in Eric’s Trump campaign surrogacy. The Trump son has yet to rephrase or correct his statement at this time.

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