Donald Trump Jr.
American businessman
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| 2025 | Trump announced that 1789 Capital would invest in the Enhanced Games, a proposed sports event allowing performance-enhancing drugs. |
| May 2025 | After Biden's prostate cancer diagnosis, Trump Jr. launched a conspiracy theory questioning why Jill Biden did not detect the cancer earlier, which was widely criticized. |
| April 2025 | Donald Trump Jr. co-founded the Executive Branch, a private membership club in Washington, D.C., alongside David O. Sacks, Cameron Winklevoss, and Tyler Winklevoss. The club opened with a party attended by members of the Trump administration, wealthy CEOs, tech founders, and policy experts. |
| 2024 | Mutually ended engagement with Kimberly Guilfoyle. |
| 2024 | Led the introductions of JD Vance at the Republican National Convention, who was selected as Donald Trump's running mate. |
| December 2024 | Trump was announced as a new member of the board of directors for PublicSquare. |
| November 2024 | Trump announced he would be joining 1789 Capital as a partner. |
| July 17 2024 | Daughter Kai Trump spoke at the Republican National Convention. |
| February 16 2024 | A legal ruling barred Trump from serving as an officer or director of any New York corporation or legal entity, including the Trump Organization, for two years. |
| 2023 | Donald Trump Jr. launched his podcast 'Triggered with Don Jr' on the Rumble platform. |
| February 2022 | Amplified Russian state propaganda claiming the US and Ukraine were developing biological weapons following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. |
| December 2021 | Switched official residency from New York to Florida. |
| December 2021 | Text messages revealed that Trump Jr. privately begged Mark Meadows to persuade his father to stop the Capitol attack. |
| March 5 2021 | Representative Eric Swalwell filed a civil lawsuit against Trump Jr. and three others, seeking damages for their alleged role in inciting the January 6 riot. |
| January 11 2021 | D.C. attorney general Karl Racine identified Donald Trump Jr. as a person of interest in the criminal investigation of the U.S. Capitol attack, considering potential charges for inciting the violent attack. |
| January 8 2021 | Following his father's permanent Twitter ban, Donald Trump Jr. claimed that free speech 'no longer exists in America'. |
| January 6 2021 | Trump Jr. spoke at the rally preceding the January 6 Capitol attack, stating 'If you're gonna be the zero and not the hero, we're coming for you' about reluctant GOP lawmakers. |
| 2020 | Authored the book 'Liberal Privilege'. |
| December 31 2020 | Reportedly became engaged to Kimberly Guilfoyle on his 43rd birthday. |
| November 2020 | Donald Trump Jr. advocated for 'total war' instead of completing vote counting in the 2020 United States elections and threatened Republican lawmakers who did not help overturn the election results. |
| November 2020 | Suggested Pfizer held back COVID-19 vaccine announcement to hurt his father's election chances, which was dismissed by Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla. |
| November 2020 | Sent a text message to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows outlining potential paths to subvert the Electoral College process. |
| October 29 2020 | Donald Trump Jr. appeared on Fox News and criticized media reporting on COVID-19 infections, downplaying the pandemic's severity on the same day the United States recorded approximately 1,000 COVID-19 deaths. |
| September 2020 | Pushed false claims about voter fraud, calling for an election security 'army' for his father. Social media platforms added labels to his video pointing to accurate voting information. |
| August 2020 | Shared a Breitbart News article suggesting voter fraud in Michigan, which was debunked as the mentioned ballots were from deceased voters who had submitted ballots before their death. |
| July 2020 | Twitter imposed a 12-hour restriction on Donald Trump Jr.'s account after he shared a video promoting COVID-19 misinformation, including unproven claims about hydroxychloroquine and masks. |
| June 2020 | Criticized liberals during the COVID-19 pandemic for imposing social distancing measures while supporting the 'Action for Black Trans Lives' protest. |
| May 2020 | Falsely accused Joe Biden of being a pedophile. |
| 2019 | Authored the book 'Triggered'. |
| November 2019 | Tweeted the alleged name of the whistleblower in the Trump-Ukraine scandal, potentially violating whistleblower protection conventions. |
| July 2019 | Appeared at a far-right 'We Build the Wall' event with Jack Posobiec, as reported by the Southern Poverty Law Center. |
| June 2019 | Senate Intelligence Committee made a bipartisan criminal referral of Trump Jr. to federal prosecutors, alleging he misled the committee during his testimony about the 2016 Trump Tower meeting. |
| February 22 2019 | Announced settlement of divorce with Vanessa Haydon at the end of 2018. |
| 2018 | Started dating Kimberly Guilfoyle. |
| September 2018 | Tweeted a misleading image of Anderson Cooper during Hurricane Florence, suggesting CNN was fabricating coverage to make his father look bad. |
| August 2018 | Shared a doctored Instagram image falsely claiming CNN reported President Trump's approval rating as 50%, which he deleted two days later. |
| June 2018 | Liked a tweet suggesting that migrant children separated from their parents were actors. |
| May 2018 | Retweeted an antisemitic conspiracy theory about George Soros, claiming he turned in Jews to Nazis during the Holocaust, which was originated from Roseanne Barr on the day her TV show was canceled. |
| March 15 2018 | Announced separation from Vanessa Haydon, who filed for divorce in Manhattan Supreme Court. |
| February 2018 | Liked tweets promoting a conspiracy theory that Stoneman Douglas High School shooting survivors were coached to propagate anti-Trump rhetoric. |
| February 2018 | Trump Jr. was involved in controversial advertisements in Indian newspapers promoting real estate sales, offering a dinner invitation with purchasers of Trump Organization apartments in Gurgaon before February 20. |
| November 2017 | News was revealed about Donald Trump Jr.'s direct communication with WikiLeaks via Twitter during the 2016 election. He had previously shared these communications with congressional investigators investigating Russian interference in the election. |
| November 7 2017 | Tweeted misleading information urging Virginia voters to vote 'tomorrow', which was actually the day after the gubernatorial election. |
| July 8 2017 | Trump Jr. publicly tweeted his email exchange with Rob Goldstone, revealing he had agreed to the Trump Tower meeting with the expectation of receiving negative information about Hillary Clinton. |
| May 2017 | Promoted a conspiracy theory linking Bill Clinton to Vince Foster's death, which was described by CNN as a 'long-debunked, far-right conspiracy theory'. |
| April 2017 | Praised conspiracy theorist Mike Cernovich, suggesting he would have won a Pulitzer Prize in an era of 'unbiased journalism'. |
| March 2017 | Criticized London Mayor Sadiq Khan following the Westminster attack, which led to criticism from British lawmakers for taking Khan's comments out of context. |
| January 11 2017 | Donald Trump announced that Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump would oversee a trust of the Trump Organization's assets during his presidency to prevent conflicts of interest. |
| 2016 | Posted a controversial tweet comparing Syrian refugees to Skittles, drawing condemnation from Skittles manufacturer and criticism for the inflammatory analogy about refugee risks. |
| 2016 | Donald Trump Jr. engaged in correspondence with WikiLeaks during the 2016 presidential election, acting as a campaign surrogate and advisor for his father's campaign. |
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