Donald Trump in 2024: Eric Trump teases dad's third election run with golf bag at Saudi tour occasion

Eric Trump is greater than prepared for his father Donald Trump to tee off in a 3rd bid for the White House, even when the previous president himself is holding off — for now — on a marketing campaign announcement

Eric used a golf bag that includes the lettering “Trump 2024” underneath an American flag patch Thursday at Donald Trump’s Bedminster, New Jersey, membership, which was internet hosting a match of LIV Golf, the controversial professional tour backed by Saudi Arabia’s public funding fund.

The youthful Trump’s cheeky public show of the brand at a pro-am competitors comes as his father contemplates launching one other run for the presidency sooner moderately than later.

A spokeswoman for the Trump Organization, the household enterprise that Eric Trump leads together with his brother, Donald Jr., didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark Thursday on his bag. Donald Trump’s spokeswoman additionally didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.

Donald Trump reportedly is contemplating formally saying earlier than this November’s mid-term election that he will probably be a candidate in 2024.

Trump, who misplaced a re-election effort to President Joe Biden, is claimed to be motivated not less than partly, to blunt the rising recognition amongst Republicans of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who himself reportedly is eyeing searching for the White House in 2024.

But some GOP elected officers and candidates are apprehensive that if Trump does announce he’s operating earlier than November, it might damage the get together’s possibilities of successful majorities in each chambers of Congress.

While retaining the assist of many Republican voters, Trump stays a deeply controversial determine attributable to his refusal to simply accept the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election outcomes, the following Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, and different points.

On Wednesday, ABC News reported {that a} Republican National Committee official advised that information outlet that the RNC would cease paying authorized payments for Trump as quickly as he pronounces he’s a candidate “because the party has a ‘neutrality policy’ that prohibits it from taking sides in the presidential primary.”

ABC famous that since October, the RNC has paid nearly $2 million to regulation corporations that characterize Trump in lawsuits filed in opposition to him, and investigations by authorities entities.

This weekend’s golf occasion at Trump’s New Jersey membership has generated controversy on a number of fronts.

The Saudi-backed LIV Golf is difficult the PGA Tour’s dominance in skilled golf, which has led the PGA to droop greater than 20 gamers from its occasions for collaborating in LIV occasions with out receiving releases for “conflicting even and media rights.”

LIV Golf additionally has been accused of being yet one more “sports-wash” effort by the Saudi Arabia to enhance its worldwide popularity, which has suffered for many years due to inside authorities repression and human rights abuses.

Trump, who’s from New York City, has been strongly criticized in current weeks by households of the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror assaults for internet hosting the Saudi occasion at his membership.

Of the 19 hijackers of 4 planes that day, 15 had been Saudi nationals. Two of the planes that had been hijacked slammed into the Twin Towers on the World Trade Center in decrease Manhattan, which collapsed quickly afterward. The Saudi authorities has lengthy denied connection to the assaults.

“How much money to turn your back on your own country?” requested a girl in an advert created by 9/11 survivors and relations and directed at Trump that started airing this week.

The advert additionally includes a man saying, “This golf tournament is taking place 50 miles from Ground Zero.”

When requested about that Thursday, Trump replied, “Well, nobody’s gotten to the bottom of 9/11, unfortunately, and they should have.”

But six years in the past, when he was first operating for president, Trump throughout an look on Fox News’ “Fox & Friends,” mentioned: “Who blew up the World Trade Center? It wasn’t the Iraqis, it was Saudi — take a look at Saudi Arabia, open the documents.”