Donald Trump Jr. Height, Age, Girlfriend, Wife, Family, Biography

Some Lesser Known Facts About Donald Trump Jr.

• As a child, Donald Trump Jr. was inspired by his maternal grandfather, Miloš Zelníček, who lived near Prague. He spent summers there and enjoyed camping, fishing, hunting, and learning Czech.
  

  A childhood picture of Donald Trump Jr.

• When he was 12 years old, his parents divorced because his father had an affair. He was upset and did not speak to his father for a year after the divorce.

• In 2000, after completing his graduation from Penn, Donald Trump Jr. moved to Aspen, Colorado.
  

  Donald Trump Jr. during a college days

• He spent a year hunting, fishing, skiing, bartending, and living in a truck.

• Donald Trump Jr. then returned to New York to join the Trump Organization, where he supervised projects like 40 Wall Street, Trump International Hotel and Tower, and Trump Park Avenue.

• In 2006, he started a venture named Trump Mortgage, which failed in less than a year.

• In 2007, Donald Trump Jr. donated $4,000 to Hillary Clinton’s campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.

• From 2006 to 2015, he appeared as a guest adviser and judge on his father’s show The Apprentice.
  

  Donald Trump Jr. on the sets of the show The Apprentice

• In 2010, Donald Trump Jr. began working as a spokesperson and executive director of global branding for Cambridge Who’s Who.

• In 2010, his photos from a hunting trip in Africa went viral. Trump Jr. posing with a dead leopard and an elephant tail sparked anger from animal rights activists. He later defended his actions and the critics ‘PETA crazies.’
  

  Donald Trump Jr. posing with a dead leopard

  

  Donald Trump Jr. posing with a cut elephant tail

• In 2011, Donald Trump Jr. criticized Florida Representative Frederica Wilson but wrongly confused her with California Representative Maxine Waters. He mocked her colourful hats and compared her to a stripper.

• During the 2016 presidential election, he played an important role in his father’s campaign and was described by The New York Times as a close political adviser.

• Donald Trump Jr. spoke at the Republican National Convention along with his siblings Ivanka, Eric, and Tiffany.
  

  Donald Trump Jr. while speaking at the Republican National Convention (2016)

• He advised his father, Donald Trump, to appoint Ryan Zinke as Secretary of the Interior during his administration.

• In the 2016 election, Donald Trump Jr. built a public image as a strong supporter of Trumpism and a provocative right-wing figure.

• On 1 March 2016, he gave an interview to white supremacist James Edwards. The campaign initially denied it, and Trump Jr. later said it was unintentional.

• Some media outlets accused Donald Trump Jr. of supporting or exploiting the white genocide conspiracy theory for political gain.

• On 9 June 2016, he attended a meeting at Trump Tower. Publicist Rob Goldstone arranged the meeting on behalf of Azerbaijani-Russian businessman Emin Agalarov.

• The meeting included Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort, Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, her translator Anatoli Samochornov, lobbyist Rinat Akhmetshin, and Ike Kaveladze, a senior vice president at Crocus Group.

• After the meeting, he told the media that the meeting was mainly about Russian child adoption.

• During the 2016 election campaign, Donald Trump Jr. retweeted comments by white supremacist Kevin B. MacDonald about alleged deals between Hillary Clinton and a Swiss bank.

• He also promoted conspiracy theories by Alex Jones, who claimed that Hillary Clinton wore an earpiece during a forum and that unemployment rates were manipulated.

• In August 2016, Donald Trump Jr. met with a delegate for the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia who offered support for the Trump campaign.

• The meeting included Joel Zamel (an Israeli expert in social media manipulation), George Nader (representing the crown princes of the UAE and Saudi Arabia), and American businessman Erik Prince.

• In September 2016, Donald Trump Jr. shared an Instagram image where he combined his father with Pepe the Frog, a symbol linked to white supremacy. When asked about it, he said that he never heard of Pepe and thought that it was only a frog with a wig.
  

  The image of Donald Trump combined with Pepe the Frog Instagrammed by Donald Trump Jr.

• On 11 January 2017, his father announced that Trump Jr. and his brother Eric Trump would manage a trust holding the Trump Organization’s assets during his presidency to avoid conflicts of interest.

• After that, Donald Trump Jr. started promoting the family’s businesses globally during Trump’s presidency.

• In 2017, he legally hunted prairie dogs in Montana on Earth Day with Greg Gianforte, then a GOP congressional candidate.
  

  A picture of Donald Trump Jr. while hunting prairie dogs

• In 2017, Donald Trump reportedly described his son, Trump Jr., as ‘not the sharpest knife in the drawer,’ as written by The Atlantic in 2019.

• Some Trump campaign staffers gave him the nickname ‘Fredo,’ referencing a character from The Godfather.

• In April 2017, Donald Trump Jr. campaigned for Montana congressional candidate Greg Gianforte.
  

  Donald Trump Jr. with Greg Gianforte

• In May 2017, he met with Republican National Committee officials to discuss strategy and resources.

• In 2017, Donald Trump Jr. criticized London’s mayor Sadiq Khan for the Westminster attack. British lawmakers and journalists criticized Trump Jr., for criticizing Khan out of context while Khan chose not to respond.

• During the same year, he promoted the disproved conspiracy theory that Bill Clinton was connected to Vince Foster’s death (1993) and repeated claims that the Clintons were involved in murders.

• On 8 July 2017, Donald Trump Jr. tweeted emails showing that he attended the meeting expecting to get damaging information about Hillary Clinton.

• The emails revealed that Rob Goldstone had mentioned the involvement of the Russian government in providing the information.
• Robert Mueller, the special counsel for Russia-related investigations, investigated the emails and the meeting.

• The White House praised Donald Trump Jr. for releasing the emails. It was revealed that he did so only after The New York Times informed him that they had the emails and would publish a story.
  

  A screenshot of some emails exchanged by Donald Trump Jr. and Rob Goldstone

• In November 2017, it was revealed that Julian Assange, an Australian editor, communicated with Trump Jr. through the WikiLeaks Twitter account during the 2016 election.

• The messages showed that WikiLeaks actively got his cooperation and urged the Trump campaign to reject the 2016 election results when it looked like they might lose.

• WikiLeaks asked Donald Trump Jr. to promote a fake claim that Hillary Clinton wanted to attack Assange with drones.

• In November 2017, he incorrectly advised Virginia voters to vote the day after the gubernatorial election.

• In February 2018, many Indian newspapers advertised a deal in which the buyers of Trump Organization apartments in Gurgaon were offered a ‘conversation and dinner’ with Donald Trump Jr. The deal ended in February 2020. Many anti-corruption organisations considered the deal unethical.

• During the 2018 midterm elections, he campaigned for several Republican candidates such as Matt Rosendale, Patrick Morrisey, Mike Braun, Ron DeSantis, Lee Zeldin, and Matt Gaetz.

• He raised millions of money for Republican candidates and was the second person to draw the crowd to his father, contributing to Republican wins.

• In 2018, he liked tweets which claimed that the survivors of the Stoneman Douglas shooting were coached to criticize Trump.

• Donald Trump Jr. then retweeted an antisemitic conspiracy theory about George Soros being a Nazi collaborator. The tweets were disproved by Soros’ spokesperson with facts about his survival during the Holocaust.

• During the same year, Donald Trump Jr. liked a tweet indicating migrant children separated under the Trump administration were actors.

• During Hurricane Florence in September 2018, he shared an old image of Anderson Cooper in floodwaters. He accused CNN of lying about hurricane coverage and falsely sharing the image.
  

  An old image of Anderson Cooper in floodwaters shared by Donald Trump Jr. during Hurricane Florence in September 2018

• In 2019, during the Trump-Ukraine scandal, Donald Trump Jr. asked Ukraine’s president to investigate Joe Biden and his son Hunter. He blamed Hunter Biden for nepotism and using his father’s position for financial gain. In a media conference, Trump Jr. said,
  

  When you’re the father and your son’s entire career is dependent on that, they own you.”

• Trevor Noah and others mocked him for these remarks.

• The Associated Press, a noted media house, wrote in one of its articles that Donald Trump Jr.’s remarks showed no self-awareness of his success which he gained due to his famous father.

• The Washington Post stated that his claim that his family ended foreign business deals after Donald Trump became president was false.

• The Washington Post also reported that after Donald Trump took office, his sons continued selling assets to foreign buyers, expanding deals in other countries, and receiving payments from foreign governments at U.S. properties.

• In July 2019, Donald Trump Jr. attended a far-right ‘We Build the Wall’ event with Jack Posobiec, as reported by the Southern Poverty Law Center in August 2020.

• In 2019, he published a book titled Triggered. The book criticizes political correctness and claims that the American left has a victimhood complex.

• Carlos Lozada, a Peruvian-American journalist, reviewed the book in the Washington Post and called it a failure as both memoir and argument. He criticised its shallow analysis and poor writing.

• The book became a New York Times best-seller but was supported by bulk purchases from Republican organizations.

• The book criticised Joe Biden and the Democrats.

• Donald Trump Jr. spent three months writing it with the help of three researchers.

• He decided to self-publish the book due to the guaranteed publicity of his platform and bulk purchases from the Republican National Committee (RNC).

• The RNC spent over $300,000 to buy the book as ‘donor mementoes’ and gifted copies to those who donated $50 to $100.

• The RNC’s bulk purchases of his books raised questions about the ethical use of donor funds.
  

  Donald Trump Jr. on the cover of the book Triggered

• In 2019, Donald Trump Jr. legally hunted an Argali mountain sheep, an endangered species. The permit was retroactively granted by the Mongolian government.
  

  Donald Trump Jr. posing with a dead Argali mountain sheep

  

  Donald Trump Jr after killing a rare endangered sheep in Mongolia with special permit

• Reportedly, the trip cost U.S. taxpayers $76,859.36 for Secret Service protection.

• Some wildlife advocates such as Humane Society International criticized the hunt as an ‘absolute outrage.’

• In October 2020, Pennsylvania Republicans advised Donald Trump Jr. to contest for the Senate seat in 2022 after Senator Pat Toomey announced his retirement.

• The same month, he organised a crowded indoor rally where attendees did not wear masks. He went against public health guidelines.

• On 29 October 2020, during a conversation with Fox News, Donald Trump Jr. claimed that the coronavirus death rate had dropped to almost nothing. He said,
  

  We’ve gotten control of this thing.”

• On that day, the U.S. recorded 1,063 COVID-19 deaths.

• During the 2020 election, there was speculation that Donald Trump Jr. would contest for president in 2024. In October 2020, he posted a photo on Instagram featuring a ‘Don Jr. 2024’ flag.
  

  An image of the ‘Don Jr. 2024’ flag

• In 2020, he agreed to a hunting trip in Alaska with the winner of a fundraising auction for Safari Club International.

• In the 2020 election, Donald Trump Jr.  falsely accused Joe Biden of being a paedophile.

• He also spread claims of voter fraud. He shared a Breitbart article about dead voters in Michigan, which was disproved.

• During the 2020 elections, Donald Trump Jr. appealed for an election security army. He claimed that millions of fraudulent ballots would steal the election.

• After Pfizer announced its COVID-19 vaccine, he claimed that it was delayed to hurt his father’s re-election chances. Pfizer’s CEO denied the claim and cited science-based timelines.

• In July 2020, during the COVID-19, his Twitter account was restricted for 12 hours after he shared a video of Stella Immanuel, who was promoting hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 cure and dismissing masks.

• In 2020, Donald Trump Jr. accused liberals of hypocrisy and supporting protests like ‘Action for Black Trans Lives’ while implementing COVID-19 restrictions on businesses.

• After the 2020 election, he played an important role in overturning the results.

• He threatened Republican lawmakers who did not support these efforts.

• On 5 November 2020, Donald Trump Jr. texted Mark Meadows with detailed strategies to avoid the election outcome. These strategies included leveraging Republican-controlled state legislatures and Congress. During that time, Joe Biden had not yet been declared the winner.

• On 31 December 2020, he reportedly got engaged to Kimberly Guilfoyle, but the engagement ended in 2024.

• In January 2021, Donald Trump Jr. was investigated for allegedly misusing inaugural funds by overpaying for event space at the Trump Hotel in 2017.

• In January 2021, before the U.S. Capitol riot, Trump Jr., alongside his father and others, addressed a crowd. He warned GOP lawmakers to oppose them. He said,
  

  If you’re gonna be the zero and not the hero, we’re coming for you.”

• After the rally, the crowd marched to the Capitol, which led to violence, vandalism, and deaths.

• Former congressman Joe Scarborough appealed for the arrest of Trump Jr., Donald Trump, and Rudy Giuliani for starting a revolt.

• On 5 March 2021, Rep. Eric Swalwell filed a civil lawsuit against Trump Jr., his father, Rudy Giuliani, and Rep. Mo Brooks for their alleged roles in provoking the riot.

• He was named a “person of interest” in the Capitol attack investigation by the D.C. Attorney General.

• In December 2021, Donald Trump Jr. changed his residency from New York to Florida.

• During the 2022 Russia-Ukraine War, he spread wrong Russian information stating that the U.S. and Ukraine were developing biological weapons.

• In 2023, he started a ‘Triggered with Don Jr.’ podcast on the Rumble.
  

  Donald Trump Jr. on the poster of the podcast ‘Triggered with Don Jr.’

• On 16 February 2024, a ruling banned him from being an officer or director of any New York corporation, including the Trump Organization, for two years.

• In November 2024, Donald Trump Jr. announced that he was joining 1789 Capital as a partner.

• In December 2024, it was announced that he would join the board of directors of PublicSquare.

• Donald Trump Jr. is often spotted enjoying alcoholic beverages on various occasions.
  

  Donald Trump Jr. while enjoying a glass of beer

• He enjoys smoking cigars occasionally.
  

  Donald Trump Jr. while smoking a cigar

• Donald Trump Jr. often shares pictures of his pet on social media.
  

  Donald Trump Jr. with his pet

• He likes travelling to distant places in his free time.
  

  Donald Trump Jr. during a trip to Greenland