Eric Trump, who oversees the family business empire, will join Donald Trump on his trip to China next month, a spokeswoman for the Trump Organization told Reuters on Tuesday.
Eric and his wife, Lara Trump, will accompany the president in a personal capacity during the May 14–15 visit, spokeswoman Kimberly Benza said.
The move could raise concerns about a possible conflict of interest, given that Trump’s personal wealth and business dealings are managed by Eric and other members of his family.
Eric Trump is executive vice president of the Trump Organization, overseeing investments spanning real estate, golf and blockchain. Lara Trump, a former co-chair of the Republican National Committee, hosts Fox News Channel’s “My View with Lara Trump.”
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Donald Trump previously criticized Joe Biden for his son Hunter Biden’s China links, alleging iusing his influence to secure China’s financial backing for his investments. The Biden family has denied wrongdoing.
The trip is the first by a U.S. president in eight years and is aimed at maintaining stable relations between Beijing and Washington. The world’s two largest economies agreed to a truce last year after a bruising period marked by Trump’s tariffs and China’s chokehold on rare-earth exports.
But some U.S. companies had also hoped Trump’s visit could go further than approving deals on Chinese purchases of soybeans and Boeing aircraft, which are already under consideration.
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, in March said Eric Trump’s business dealings with Bitmain, a Chinese cryptocurrency mining equipment maker, posed a potential conflict of interest for his father, who has promised to be the “crypto president” and popularize cryptocurrencies’ mainstream use in the United States.
Warren asked the Commerce Department to address potential national security risks linked to Bitmain, which has supplied equipment to a cryptocurrency mining venture co-founded by Eric Trump, American Bitcoin. Bitmain has repeatedly denied that its hardware poses a security risk.
Miami, Florida-based energy and technology firm Hut 8 launched American Bitcoin in 2025 to focus mainly on bitcoin mining while building a strategic bitcoin reserve. Eric Trump serves as chief strategy officer.
(With inputs from Reuters)
