Eric Trump has said that Prince Harry’s US visa is safe because ‘no one cares’ about the Duke or his ‘unpopular’ wife Meghan Markle.
The ex-president’s second son, 40, told the Daily Mail that his father Donald ‘loved the Queen’ and lamented how Harry had done a ‘huge detriment’ to the royal family after turning his back on the UK.
But Eric said that Harry shouldn’t have to worry about being deported if Donald Trump is re-elected on November 5 despite the Duke of Sussex facing allegations he may have lied about his drug use when he applied for his US visa.
‘Truthfully I don’t give a damn about Prince Harry and I don’t think this country does either,’ Eric said of the Duke, 40, who now lives in Montecito, California.
‘My father loved the Queen and I think the monarchy is an incredibly beautiful thing.’
‘The late Queen was amazing. The way she welcomed my father with open arms was, like, beyond,’ Eric said.
Eric also said that Harry let his family down when he quit the monarchy and moved to California with wife Meghan and son Archie in 2020.
‘You look at this one black sheep who doesn’t exactly know where he is, led by a wife that is pretty unpopular, both here and over where you are,’ Eric said.
He added that Harry appeared to ‘have gone off the deep end and it’s sad to watch.’
However, people are ‘able to differentiate between the two sides,’ Eric said and described the royal family as a great symbol of Britain.
Returning to the Duke’s visa status, Eric said: ‘I don’t give a damn if he did drugs. It means nothing.
‘I can tell you that our father and our entire family has tremendous respect for the monarchy.’
It comes as Harry is facing a fresh fight over his secret US visa application with an American think-tank demanding it be made public after he admitted taking drugs in his memoir, Spare.
The Heritage Foundation questioned why the Duke was allowed into the US following his reference to taking cocaine, marijuana, and psychedelic mushrooms in the book published last year.
The conservative Washington DC group brought a lawsuit against the Department for Homeland Security (DHS) after a Freedom of Information request was rejected.
The case was brought because visa applicants must by law declare whether they have taken drugs. Failure to do so can lead to deportation, and Heritage wanted the US Government to release the records to see what Harry said about drug usage.