Ben Shapiro: “Many of the organizations that Donald Trump Jr. is connected to are making an enormous amount of money during this period of time when his father is president”
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From the May 22, 2025, edition of The Daily Wire's The Ben Shapiro Show
BEN SHAPIRO (HOST): And meanwhile, in a bit of shock news, apparently Donald Trump Jr is now hinting that he wants to run for president at some point in the future. Here he was yesterday.
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SHAPIRO: OK. Again, that would be Omeed Malik and Don Jr. sitting at the Qatar Economic Forum in a session that was originally titled Monetizing MAGA. Not a great look. Not a great look. By the way, Tucker Carlson, who was funded by Omeed Malek and Don Junior at 1789 Capital has said, not a particularly good look. He's right about that. It is not, in fact, a good look.
I'm just gonna put it out there right now. No. No. OK. Dynasties are un-American. They are not good. OK. I — George W after George H W was not great for the country. The idea of Michelle Obama for Barack Obama, not great for the country. The idea of Hillary Clinton for Bill Clinton, not great for the country. No.
And we elected Donald Trump for a reason, but connection with President Trump's name does not mean that you should be president of the United States. President Trump ran against dynasties when he opposed Jeb Bush in 2016. This is literally one of his leading gambits, was attacking Jeb Bush for being part of a political dynasty. Why are we — why the American obsession with political dynasties? And that's not a critique of Donald Trump Jr. as a person or as a future politician — that's just a reality that dynasties in American politics are typically bad. Kennedy dynasties, Bush dynasties, none of this is good.
And when you combine that with the fact that many of the organizations that Donald Trump Jr. is connected to are making an enormous amount of money during this period of time when his father is president, which raises awkward questions, certainly, about Trump administration policy ranging from Trump memecoin to World Liberty Financial to gigantic real estate deals in Qatar, none of this is an amazingly good look.
It's — this administration is doing too many important — I'll say it again, this administration is doing too many important things to be bogged down with conversations about how members of the Trump family or the Witkoff family or any of the other families surrounding the administration are making bank while President Trump is president in countries that President Trump is attempting to negotiate with. That is not a good thing. At the very least, it is not a useful thing.