Don Jr: Maybe one day I'll run for president
Donald Trump Jr has said that 'maybe one day' he will run for president.
Asked during an economic forum in Qatar whether he would consider entering the presidential race to succeed his father, Mr Trump initially laughed off the question before admitting he was open to the idea.
'Here we go. Well ... oh boy,' said the president's eldest son to faint applause from the audience in Doha. 'It's an honour to be asked, and an honour to see that some people are OK with it.
'So the answer is I don't know – maybe one day. You know, that calling is there. I'll always be very active in terms of being a vocal proponent of these things. I think my father has truly changed the Republican Party.
'I think it's the America First party now, the Maga party, however, you want to look at it.'
Mr Trump, 47, is one of the most prominent figures in the Maga movement and is widely viewed as a potential successor to his father's political legacy.
He currently runs the Trump Organisation alongside his brother, Eric, and recently visited the Middle East to sell the family name in exchange for lucrative real estate deals on hotels, resorts and golf courses.
But he also played an influential role in shaping his father's second administration, helping to pack his cabinet with loyalists and frequently attacking opponents on social media.
Speaking at the Qatar Economic Forum in Doha alongside Omeed Malik – the founder and chief executive of 1789 Capital – Mr Trump, who is a partner in Mr Malik's company, defended his father's policy agenda on trade, arguing that tariffs pose no threat to the US economy.
'Changes take time,' he said, adding that fears concerning the president's trade policies were stoked by media 'hysteria'.
Constitutionally limited
In March, Mr Trump denied reports he was mulling a 2028 run for the White House, pointing out that he had played an instrumental role in his father's decision to select JD Vance as vice-president.
Mr Vance is the runaway favourite to lead the party in 2028, according to a survey from JL Partners, with 46 per cent of Republicans picking him as their choice of nominee.
Despite being constitutionally limited to serving two terms, Donald Trump Sr has repeatedly floated the idea that he could run again in 2028.
To do so, experts have said that one of his family members could run in his place and then serve as a figurehead president while he makes the key decisions.
If Mr Trump were to take over the reins from his father, they would become the third father and son duo to have held the presidency in US history, after George HW Bush and his son George W Bush, and John Adams and his son John Quincy Adams.
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