Republican National Convention attendees are not just getting former president Donald Trump onstage \u2014 they\u2019re seeing, well, lots and lots of Trumps. Five family members have appeared on the stage in Milwaukee this week.<\/p>\n
The family presence shows not just how the convention has become a family affair but how intertwined members of the Trump family have become with the Republican Party infrastructure, as the Republican National Committee co-chair or advisers.<\/p>\n
Each of Trump\u2019s five children have already become minor political celebrities in their own right, and most have been heavily involved in Trump\u2019s campaign, his previous administration or the Trump Organization. And then there were some Trumps \u2014 like the Republican front-runner\u2019s eldest grandchild, Kai Trump \u2014 who made their national stage debut this week.<\/p>\n
The former president\u2019s wife, Melania, and high-profile eldest daughter, Ivanka, each appeared at the convention\u2019s closing night on Thursday, but did not speak.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s what to know about the Trump family members at the Republican National Convention.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s second-oldest son, Eric Trump, 40, spoke at the convention Thursday night. He, like his brother Don Jr., is an executive vice president in the Trump Organization, and he has been supporting his father during the campaign, speaking at state conventions and to the media about the assassination attempt and their family.<\/p>\n
\u201cAmerica knows that they\u2019re not just after you,\u201d Eric Trump said in his remarks, addressing his dad in the audience with his take on a popular rallying cry among Trump loyalists. \u201cThey\u2019re after all of us, and you just happen to be standing in the way.\u201d<\/p>\n
He listed the problems he claimed a Trump presidency would solve. \u201cEverything is unaffordable,\u201d he said, adding: \u201cOur infrastructure is crumbling. Our border is out of control. Millions are dead and displaced in Russia and Ukraine, a war that has no end and a war that we are funding.\u201d<\/p>\n
Donald Trump Jr., 46, was one of the last to speak Wednesday \u2014 just before Usha Vance, the wife of vice-presidential pick J.D. Vance, and the vice-presidential nominee himself.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s eldest son is a frequent proxy for his father and serves as an executive vice president in the Trump Organization.<\/p>\n
He spoke at length about the assassination attempt against his father at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania and praised Trump\u2019s reaction as a show of strength. \u201cI\u2019ve never been prouder of my father than I was in that moment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Donald Trump Jr.\u2019s daughter, Kai Trump, 17, gave what her father described as her \u201cfirst speech\u201d Wednesday and emphasized what a supportive grandfather the elder Trump has been.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of people have put my grandpa through hell, and he\u2019s still standing,\u201d she said. \u201cGrandpa, you are such an inspiration, and I love you. The media makes my grandpa seem like a different person.\u201d<\/p>\n
After she spoke, her father told her, \u201cYou crushed that,\u201d while someone in the crowd yelled \u201cKai 2040!\u201d<\/p>\n
Lara Trump, 41, the co-chair of the Republican National Committee and Eric Trump\u2019s wife, was the first Trump family member to speak on the main stage of the convention Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
Lara Trump spoke about her father-in-law\u2019s role as a family man who \u201chas sacrificed for his country,\u201d and she urged voters not to believe \u201csome outrageous narrative about the terrible things that Donald Trump will do if he becomes president.\u201d<\/p>\n
Notably, she gave a shout-out to \u201cgay supporters\u201d in her prime-time speech. The Republican Party just removed its platform\u2019s opposition to same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n
Kimberly Guilfoyle, 55, Donald Trump Jr.\u2019s fianc\u00e9e, was one of several speakers on Wednesday to say that Trump survived his attempted assassination due to divine intervention. Guilfoyle, who is also an adviser to Trump, began her speech by saying she knows that \u201cGod has put an armor of protection over Donald Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n
Guilfoyle railed against President Biden and Democrats, arguing that Trump supporters are \u201cmade to feel like enemies in our own country.\u201d<\/p>\n
Notable members of the Trump family have not spoken at the convention. Trump\u2019s wife, Melania Trump, 54, and Trump\u2019s daughter, Ivanka Trump, 42, are not on the list of announced headliners and keynote speakers, but they did appear at the convention on Thursday evening, its final night.<\/p>\n
Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, joined her father and close supporters at the convention on Thursday. Melania Trump appeared, too, wearing red and waving to supporters as she walked to take her seat with other members of the family in the VIP box.<\/p>\n
Ivanka Trump, who served as a senior adviser to her father during his presidency, said in 2022 that she would support her father outside the political arena moving forward because she wanted to preserve her family\u2019s privacy. And Melania Trump has increasingly retreated from the public eye since the end of Trump\u2019s presidency, though in a statement Sunday about the shooting, she praised her husband as a \u201cgenerous and caring man.\u201d<\/p>\n
Donald and Melania Trump\u2019s son, Barron Trump, 18, is also not scheduled to speak.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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