Under Siege: My Family's Fight to Save Our Nation

Eric Trump is a businessman and media figure who serves as executive vice president of the Trump Organization, where he helps oversee development, acquisitions, operations, and the company’s global golf portfolio. He appeared for multiple seasons as a boardroom advisor on The Celebrity Apprentice, a role that familiarized him with national audiences and with his father’s brand as both business and entertainment. His philanthropic profile has grown through fundraising for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. As author of Under Siege, Eric frames the book as a first-person account of growing up in the Trump family, leading the Trump Organization, and participating in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 campaigns. As the son of Donald Trump, Eric knows his father very differently from the majority of the public. His book has the stated aim of introducing the public to another side of Donald Trump: the tender, caring family man whom Eric still sees as his father, rather than his President. Throughout the book, for example, Donald refers to Eric as “honey” (57), a surprisingly affectionate term for a man who has so often projected strength in the public sphere. At the same time, however, Eric’s role as the overseer of the Trump business empire means that he has deliberately separated himself from his father’s political life.