Kai Trump said she would not go into politics like her grandfather because it is “too dangerous”.
Ms Trump, the granddaughter of Donald Trump, the US president, said she was “very much in the middle” and criticised the extremes of both Left-wing and Right-wing politics.
While running for the White House in 2024, Mr Trump was the target of two assassination attempts, and narrowly escaped death when he was grazed by a bullet while speaking at a rally.
Ms Trump, 18, refused to be drawn when she was asked by a podcast host about her opinion of Kamala Harris, the former vice-president and her grandfather’s opponent in the last presidential election.
“To be honest with you, I stay out of politics completely. Like, I would never run and I don’t want anything to do with politics,” she replied.
“I feel like politics is such a dangerous thing and I think if both sides met in the middle everyone would be so much more happier. And I think there’s radical-Left, there’s radical-Right and there’s a lot of people who get too extreme.”
Donald and Kai Trump at the White House in Sept 2025 – Kevin Dietsch/2025 Getty Images
Ms Trump, an aspiring golfer with a large following on TikTok, said social media had driven political polarisation and had turned “some people crazy”.
“And that’s where social media really ties into it because social media kind of makes your Instagram or your feed be one way or the other and there’s not a lot of things on social media if you’re very much in the middle,” she continued.
“I think that kind of makes some people crazy and some people buy into it too much. I think that’s like the best way to say it… I’m very much in the middle.”
Ms Trump added that there was “no bad blood” between Mr Trump and Ms Harris. “It is what it is, they ran against each other,” she said.
Her father is Donald Trump Jr, the president’s eldest son, who has cultivated a following as a firebrand conservative personality, fuelling speculation he could mount a White House bid when his father’s term ends.
Mr Trump Jr has previously ruled out a presidential run in 2028 but has said he could run “one day”. “That calling is there,” he said last year.
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