adminEric Trump’s recent recollections about growing up in the Trump orbit are worth paying attention to because they shred the hollow caricature the mainstream media keeps trying to sell. He hasn’t shyed away from saying his childhood was unconventional — not soft or celebrity-slick, but built around work, discipline, and a father who set clear rules and expectations.
He told listeners he was on construction sites at 11 and 12, doing demo and learning trades, and that his father drilled into him a strict code — “no drinking, no drugs, no smoking” — from as early as four years old. That kind of early accountability and hands-on learning is the backbone of real American success, not the pampered entitlement the left pretends is the norm for rich families.
The predictable response from coastal elites and their media propagandists was to try to recast these stories as evidence of neglect, but that interpretation is dishonest and desperate. Conservatives should celebrate a parenting style that prizes work ethic and tough love over performative virtue-signaling, and we should call out the media for acting as if grit and responsibility are scandalous.
Eric’s loyalty to his father and to the family enterprise is also instructive; he talks about spending mornings in his father’s office and learning the business of building and creating. That’s the kind of multi-generational stewardship and respect for honest labor that made America strong long before the Left began worshiping dependency and spectacle.
Of course, the cultural elites turned Eric’s new memoir and his public reflections into a punchline this week, with late-night hosts staging a smug mockery of his book on October 15, 2025. Hollywood’s reflexive sneer says more about their resentments than it does about the Trumps — they mock people who build things because they can’t build anything themselves.
Hardworking Americans know the truth: parents who demand responsibility and teach real skills are doing their children and the country a favor. If the media wants to keep misrepresenting that as a flaw, let them — the rest of us will keep praising families who work, sacrifice, and pass on values that sustain freedom and prosperity.
