Donald Trump Jr. reveals the position he needs if his father is re-elected

Donald Trump Jr. revealed the huge role he wants to play should his father be elected president again in November. 

The ex-president’s 46-year-old son has been one of his father’s biggest and boosters, campaigning heavily for the Republican nominee’s second term in office – but has never held an official governmental role.

Trump Jr. said Tuesday that he doesn’t plan to change that if his father wins a second term but he wants a more unofficial status within his father’s agenda.

‘I want to veto the RINOs. I want to have a veto power over the RINOs. That’s all I’m asking for,’ he said.

RINO is an acronym for Republican in Name Only – politicians deemed insufficiently conservative.

In the past, former President Trump has used the RINO moniker to describe everyone from Ron DeSantis to ex-press secretary Kayleigh McEnany and Rupert Murdoch. He also used it on most of his Republican primary opponents in 2024.

Aside from weeding out RINOs, he seems himself as a way to get pro-Trump people into the administration.

‘The only role I want is to put our people in other positions of power. I just want to stop the bad guys from ever getting in those positions of power. That’s the only thing I want.’ 

Someone Trump Jr. has vetted for their RINO status is ally and now-Vice Presidential nominee JD Vance. 

The ex-president’s son believes that the Ohio Senator may be the person to carry on his father’s legacy to the next generation. 

‘I think he is someone who truly believes in that mission – he is not a Washington D.C. neocon warmonger, and I think that is so critical,’ he told Fox News. 

‘I love having a young, articulate, energetic guy as someone who can help also keep this movement going for generations to come – I think that is so fundamental and so important,’ Trump Jr. added.

He also loves how Vance fights back against what he refers to as ‘hostile media.’ 

‘I think it is just so critical for the movement going forward and I think he’s going to do a great job as vice president.’ 

Earlier Tuesday, Trump Jr. revealed the ‘tough moment’ when he didn’t know his father’s health status after a would-be assassin fired on him, and the light-hearted jokes they exchanged to break the tension.

The president’s eldest son reenacted part of their first conversation after the gunman fired on the former president in Pennsylvania, in a check-in that finally ended the uncertainty and included some father-son-banter.

‘Can I call you Evander Holyfield because of the missing chunk of ear?’ he said he told his father, who has hosted boxing matches.

Don Jr. even put on a respectable Trump impression to describe the way they cut the tension through humor, speaking in an Axios interview outside the Republican convention.

‘Most importantly. How’s the hair?’ he said asked his father. ‘The hair is fine, Don. The hair is fine. A lot of blood in it, but it’s fine,’ he says his dad responded.

Those jokes bely the horror that Trump, Jr. and family members went through – and serious security questions he is demanding U.S. agencies answer about what went wrong. 

Trump Jr. was heavily visible during the second night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, though some of his father’s past enemies stole the headlines.

Former Ambassador to the UN and Republican Primary opponent Nikki Haley gave a show of unity three days after Trump miraculously survived an assassination attempt, and he still sported a bandage where a bullet ripped through his right ear. 

A strong primary challenger who tried to paint Trump as a lawbreaking, rule-defying, bully, Haley was not able to convince voters of her promise to ‘Make America Normal Again.’ 

But her reception by the former president, who gave her a kind applause and smile, may have – at least for the moment – quashed the beef between the two GOP powerhouses.  

Initial boos for the former South Carolina Governor were quickly drowned out by applause as she lambasted Kamala Harris and urged the GOP to get behind Trump in the aftermath of the horrifying assassination bid.

Haley dropped her criticisms of Trump and gave him her full support in the general election battle with Biden.

She also admitted that ‘you don’t have to always agree with him to vote for him’ and thanked him for his ‘gracious invitation’ to speak on Tuesday night.

‘I’ll start by making one thing perfectly clear. Donald Trump has my strong endorsement,’ she said to thunderous applause.

‘Our country is at a critical moment. We have a choice to make. For more than a year, I said a vote for Joe Biden is a vote for President Kamala Harris. After seeing the debate, everyone knows it’s true.’

Haley was part of a line up that included another of Trump’s ex-opponents, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, and everyday Americans impacted by border crime and the opioid epidemic.

The former president laughed delightedly when DeSantis mocked Joe Biden’s sleep schedule and said the U.S. could not take four more years of his ‘Weekend at Bernie’s’ presidency’.

Day two of the GOP Convention saw many popular Republicans take the stage: Vivek Ramaswamy, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, House Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., and more. 

The speakers have decried Biden’s border policies, the president’s age and a vision of a renewed America under the leadership of Trump. 

Elsewhere, the Republican Party continued to present ‘everyday Americans’ who spoke of their horror experiences living in the US under Joe Biden’s presidency.

Anne Fundner, a mother whose teenage son died from fentanyl poisoning, said she held Democrats responsible. 

The family of Rachel Morin, a Maryland woman who authorities say was raped and killed by a Salvadoran immigrant who had crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally several times, blamed Biden policies as well. 

One of the primetime speakers, Madeline Brame, railed against Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, whose office prosecuted Trump for illegally orchestrating a hush money scheme to influence the 2016 election. That made Trump the first former president convicted of a felony crime.

Brame accused Bragg of having mishandled the cases against the people accused of killing her son. Of Trump, she said, ‘He´s been a victim of the same corrupt system that I have been and my family has been.’

Then she echoed a version of a line he has delivered at his rallies for years.

‘They´re after us,’ she said. ‘He´s just standing in the way.’

There was still some outsider star power on night two of the convention, as Savannah Chrisley compared the legal plights of her parents Todd and Julie Chrisley to that of former President Trump.

The 26-year-old reality star–turned–podcast host gave a speech blasting the prosecution and conviction of her parents, who were initially sentenced to a combined 19 years in federal prison.

She appeared in front of a massive police badge backdrop as she complained that the reality fixtures were ‘persecuted’ due to their ‘public profile and conservative beliefs.’

She claimed their allegedly unfair treatment was similar to Donald Trump’s, after he was convicted in New York State of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to efforts to conceal payments to the porn star Stormy Daniels. 

Chrisley went on to describe the US justice system as ‘two faced,’ and she claimed that it targets ‘Christians and conservatives that the government has labeled extremists or even worse.’