At the Republican National Convention, Donald Trump officially assumed his role as the GOP’s nominee for the 2024 presidential election and announced Ohio Senator J.D. Vance as his running mate.
It was not just the patriarch of the Trump family that took center stage at the RNC, but Trump’s sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, and his granddaughter, Kai Trump, who also addressed the crowd. Trump’s wife Melania and his daughter Ivanka were present at the convention, though they did not speak.
[time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”]With the Trumps firmly in the limelight, here is a breakdown of the business mogul and former President’s family tree.
Trump’s eldest son, and one of three children from his first marriage with the late Ivana Trump, has assumed a public-facing role throughout his father’s business and political career. He serves as executive vice president in The Trump Organization and often defends his father’s Make America Great Again platform. At the time of publication, Trump Jr. has over 11 million followers on X (formerly Twitter) and often uses his profile to champion his father’s campaign. Over a decade before his father was elected president in 2016, Trump Jr. was arrested for “public intoxication” in downtown New Orleans.
In 2021, Trump Jr. launched a hunting- and outdoors-focused lifestyle media brand called Field Ethos.
He was previously married to Vanessa Trump, with whom he shares five children. He is now engaged to Kimberly Guilfoyle.
Donald Trump Jr.’s fiancée, a former prosecutor in San Francisco and Los Angeles, also took to the stage at the RNC. Guilfoyle, 55, is the former wife of Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom and served as the first lady of San Francisco in the first two years Newsom served as Mayor, from 2003 to 2005.
Guilfoyle has a son, Ronan, from a previous marriage to businessman Eric Villency, who she wed after Newsom.
Trump Jr.’s eldest daughter, Kai Trump, addressed the crowd at the RNC to “show a side of [her] grandpa that people don’t usually see,” making her public speaking debut. Kai, 17, is an avid golfer, and is on the varsity team at her high school in Florida.
Donald Trump III is 15 years old. His IMDB lists four credits.
Tristan Trump, second son to Trump Jr., is 12 years old. In October 2023, Trump Jr. posted “happy birthday” to his son on Instagram, the note accompanied with a photo of all five of his children around a Tampa Bay Buccaneers birthday cake.
The Trump heir’s fourth child, Spencer, is 11. Trump Jr. has posted pictures of the two fishing together on his Instagram, and also posted a happy birthday tribute to his youngest son last year.
Trump Jr.’s youngest child, Chloe, turned 10 last month. Her father has posted pictures of her helping him fish and of her with her grandpa at Trump Golf Course in Palm Beach, Florida.
Trump’s eldest daughter, Ivanka Trump, has frequently accompanied him on the campaign trail or acted as a surrogate for her father. During her father’s presidency, Ivanka, 42, was a senior advisor in his administration, and also was the director of the Office of Economic Initiatives and Entrepreneurship. Since her father’s presidency, though, she has retreated from politics and the public eye. She did not speak at the 2024 RNC, but she did make an appearance on computer scientist Lex Fridman’s podcast, which was released in early July.
Ivanka’s husband, 43, is a business mogul in his own right. The CEO of New Jersey real estate empire Kushner Companies and publisher of the New York Observer is the son of Charles Kushner, a real estate developer who founded Kushner Companies..
The Kushner-Trump couple reported between $172m and $640m in outside income while working in the White House, according to analysis by CREW. after Trump left the White House, Kushner’s private equity firm received a $2 billion investment from Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund.
Ivanka and Kushner’s oldest child, Arabella, is 13 and had her Bat Mitzvah in June 2023. After her grandfather was elected, Arabella occasionally joined her mom at the White House for official state visits and duties and also visited the Supreme Court. As displayed on Ivanka’s public Instagram profile, Arabella plays piano, rides horses, and practices Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
The couple’s eldest son, Joseph Kushner, 10, shares a name with Jared’s grandfather, a real estate developer and investor.
Kushner and Ivanka’s youngest child, Theodore, is 8 years old. Ivanka has shared multiple milestones of her son’s life on Instagram, including his birth and his first steps.
Former President Trump’s son Eric, 40, maintains less of a public persona than his older brother, but still has a leading presence in the Trump family business. Eric spoke at the RNC in defense of his father’s presidential candidacy. Eric, like his brother, is an executive vice president at The Trump Organization.
Eric’s wife, Lara Trump, is a CBS producer. She took center stage at the 2024 RNC, closing the second day of the convention. She focused her speech on Trump’s role as grandparent to her children with Eric.
Lara, 41, has co-chaired the Republican National Committee since March 2024, and has been a major fundraiser for the party, helping them rake in more than $280 million since March. In the past few years, she has risen the ranks in the Republican party, and is overseeing the organization’s early voting drive, dubbed “Swamp the Vote,” a nationwide initiative to encourage Republicans to vote by mail.
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Eric Trump Jr., named after his father, is 6 years old. His mother has posted multiple pictures on her Instagram account of him and his sister with their grandpa, including one for Father’s Day this year.
Carolina Trump is the former President’s 10th grandchild, and the youngest currently. She is 4 years old.
Donald Trump’s fourth child, Tiffany, stood with her father in the arena at the RNC. Tiffany, 30, is Trump’s only child with second wife and actress Marla Maples, to whom he was married between 1993 and 1999. In 2011, Tiffany released a pop song called “Like a Bird.” She has spoken to the public a few times during her father’s political career, and made a speech during the 2016 RNC.
Michael Boulos is a businessman, who’s family, according to Page Six, founded SCOA Nigeria and Boulos Enterprises. He married Tiffany in November 2022.
Donald Trump’s youngest son, Barron, now 18, largely stays out of the limelight. Throughout his childhood and his father’s presidency, Barron attended private high schools in the New York, Washington D.C., and Palm Beach areas.
In May 2024, Barron graduated from Oxbridge Academy in Palm Beach, Florida, though he has not announced where he will attend college. Barron joined his father on the campaign trail in July at a rally in Doral, Florida.
