Eric Trump, son of former US President Donald Trump, has expressed his dislike for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle and said he could deport the couple if his father wins the US presidential election in November.
“You can happily have them both back (Meghan and Harry), we will happily send them back from the US,” Eric Trump said in an interview to GB News on Sunday. “You can have them back here, but I’m not sure if you want them anymore. Maybe we don’t want them anymore, it’s like they’re on an island of their own.”
He praised the royal family as a “beautiful” and “sacred institution”, but took a dig at Meghan Markle’s past career as a Hollywood actress, calling her a “bad apple” and saying, “You can always have bad actors in everything.”
Eric Trump revealed that he deeply admires the late Queen Elizabeth II, saying that he and his father had “great respect” for her. He fondly recalled his father’s interactions with Queen Elizabeth during his presidency from 2017 to 2021.
Following her death in 2022, Donald Trump praised her “historic and remarkable reign” on his Truth social platform. Eric Trump also shared a personal connection with the royal family, revealing that his late mother Ivana Trump had a “very good relationship” with Prince Harry’s mother Princess Diana.
Eric Trump’s recent comments disparaging Prince Harry and Megan Markle aren’t the first time the Trump family has publicly criticized the couple. His father Donald Trump has been vocal about his dislike for the couple, particularly Markle, whom he has accused of being “disrespectful” to the royal family.
In March, Trump suggested that the royal couple, who have been living in California since 2020, may need to relocate due to Harry’s admission to drug use in the US, as revealed in his memoir ‘Spare’. The former US president said Harry should not get “special privileges” and “appropriate action” should be taken against him if he lied in his US visa application.
Earlier, at CPAC in February, Donald Trump declared that he “would not protect” Harry, calling him “shameful” and saying he “betrayed the Queen”. He also predicted that Harry and Meghan Markle’s marriage would “end badly” in a 2022 interview with Piers Morgan.
