NewsBreaking Down the Trump Family Line of Succession

Breaking Down the Trump Family Line of Succession

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.

With the Trumps firmly in the limelight, here is a breakdown of the business mogul and former President’s family tree.

Donald Trump Jr.

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 champions his father’s Make America Great Again campaign. At the time of publication, Trump Jr. has over 11 million followers on X (formerly Twitter). 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 lifestyle media brand called Field Ethos.

He was previously married to Vanessa Trump, with whom he shares five children—Kai, 17, Donald Trump III, 15, Tristan, 12, Spencer, 11, and Chloe, 10. He is now engaged to Kimberly Guilfoyle.

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.

TOPSHOT-US-REPUBLICAN-CONVENTION-PARTIES-ELECTION-POLITICS-VOTEKimberly Guilfoyle speaks during the third day of the 2024 Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 17, 2024. Jim Watson—Getty ImagesKai Trump

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.

2024 Republican National ConventionDonald Trump Jr. claps as his daughter Kai Madison Trump speaks at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on Wednesday, July 17, 2024. Bill Clark—Getty Images

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Ivanka Trump

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.

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