The American president’s wife may be absent but his son appears in the entourage in a ‘personal capacity’
2-MIN READ2-MIN2 ListenFan ChenPublished: 4:01pm, 14 May 2026US President Donald Trump’s second son Eric, who oversees the family business empire, is among the US entourage for the state visit to China.Eric and his wife Lara followed the US president down the steps from Air Force One on arrival in Beijing on Wednesday night.
The executive vice-president of his father’s businesses, Eric oversees investments in areas including real estate and golf. More recently, he has pivoted to cryptocurrency and blockchain technology, focusing on decentralised finance.
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Lara Trump is a former co-chair of the Republican National Committee and now hosts the chat show “My View with Lara Trump” on Fox News.
The couple were accompanying the president in a personal capacity, the Trump Organisation told Reuters last month.
“[Eric] does not have business ventures in China nor plans on doing business in China,” the conglomerate’s spokeswoman, Kimberly Benza, was quoted as saying.
