Donald Trump’s son, Eric Trump, has claimed he was forced to leave New York City and move to Florida – but Fox News viewers hit out at the businessman’s comments

Eric Trump claimed he was ‘run out of New York City’(Image: Fox News)

Fox News viewers have been laughing at Eric Trump after he claimed during an interview that he has been “run out of New York City.”

The 41-year-old businessman, the third child of President Donald Trump and his first wife, Ivana, said during an appearance on the TV network last night that companies are being forced to leave cities like NYC because they are not being treated well. To highlight his point, he said he is among those who have left NYC for Florida, adding that this is “very sad.”

Eric said, “You know, I mean, half the buildings in some of these cities are vacant, all because these politicians are running great American companies that were literally founded, have the cities’ DNA in them, they’re running them out of these places. And they’re sending every single one of these companies to, guess where, Florida, to North Carolina, to Texas, to Republican strongholds where they’re not gonna get treated like c–p.

“I mean, hey, I left New York City and guess where I went? I went to Florida because we ere literally run out of the city and it’s very, very sad.” But after a clip of the interview was shared on X, Fox News viewers hit out at Eric for his comments. “Eric Trump acting like he was ‘run out’ of NYC is peak dramatics,” a critic wrote.

Someone else said, “You didn’t flee persecution you moved because it suited your family’s narrative. Stop pretending it was some exile story.” Another posted, “You were run out of the city by the courts and your business defrauding.”

A fourth tweeted, “Weird I go to NYC a lot cause my sister is there and I haven’t notice any vacancies at all! Clearly he’s lying or I would see it! And 80 percent of NYC despises Trump so there’s that!” One more added, “I don’t think he is clever enough to realize that when he looks in the mirror, his right is actually left.”

A person said, “New York has rules about felons running a business.” Someone else wrote, “Eric: Literally no one cares. You weren’t even noticed. At all.”

One commented, “Literally? People ran after you until you reached the border with the next city? How do these people get through college?” Another said, “Maybe the fact that you stole money from a charity for kids with cancer has something to do with it.”

Fox News viewers criticized the president’s son for his comments(Image: Fox News)

In 2019, as part of a settlement with the New York Attorney General’s office, a judge ordered the president to pay $2 million for misusing funds from the Donald J. Trump Foundation. Eric, along with his siblings Donald Jr. and Ivanka Trump, were directors of the foundation and were required to undergo mandatory training on the duties of charity officers and directors.

Earlier this month, Eric was branded “dumber than daddy” after indicating that he doesn’t understand how New York ballots work, despite being born and raised in NYC. The president’s second-eldest son shared an X post by Elon Musk accusing New York City’s mayoral elections of being part of a “scam” ahead of democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani’s victory.

“The New York City ballot form is a scam!” Musk wrote, noting that “no ID is required, other mayoral candidates appear twice,” and “Andrew Cuomo’s name was last in bottom right” as he shared an image of the ballot. The image actually showed Joseph Hernandez’s name was last, coming after Cuomo’s.

“I hope everybody starts to understand the games that they play… no different than bomb threats called into NJ voting locations on Election Day – a day which vastly favors Republican turnout,” Eric wrote as he shared Musk’s post. New York elections allow for electoral fusion, which is when multiple parties may list the same candidate. For many years, New York voters have found candidates listed twice, three times or even more on their ballots when they go to the polling booth.