Who was in Trump’s enormous victory entourage?

Hours after the polls closed, Donald Trump took the stage in Florida to declare victory, surrounding himself with an enormous group of household, allies, marketing campaign advisers – and sports activities figures.

All 5 of his youngsters had been there, a few of whom performed key roles in his final administration, alongside their 4 companions, and two of his 10 grandchildren.

There have been additionally marketing campaign advisers and political allies, each well-known and behind-the-scenes figures who had been instrumental to Trump’s campaigns in 2016, 2020 and 2024.

And among the many extra unpredictable appearances had been martial arts boss Dana White and pro-golfer Bryson DeChambeau.

This is what we all know concerning the entourage that would provide some clues as to what we are able to anticipate from Trump’s second administration.

Trump’s household have supported him politically and professionally for years – working in his real-estate enterprise, rallying in his campaigns and even becoming a member of his earlier administration from 2017 to 2021.

By his facet was his spouse Melania, who was largely absent from the marketing campaign path this election cycle.

Trump hailed her for writing the “number-one bestselling book in the country” – a memoir by which she advocates for a girl’s proper to abortion, a stance at odds with many within the Republican Celebration.

Trump was additionally joined by his youngest youngster, Barron Trump, 18, a first-year college pupil, and Melania’s father Viktor Knavs, a Slovenian who turned a US citizen in 2018.

Trump’s third youngster, Eric Trump, was joined by his spouse Lara, who Trump appointed as co-chair of the Republican Celebration and who spoke on the Republican Nationwide Conference (RNC) this yr.

Trump’s oldest son, Donald Trump Jr, a political adviser after Trump left the White Home, was additionally there, joined by his fiancée Kimberly Guilfoyle. She was beforehand married to now-California Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, and has given passionate speeches on the RNC.

Donald Trump Jr additionally introduced alongside two of his 5 youngsters. His 17-year-old daughter Kai spoke publicly for the primary time through the RNC, describing Trump as “very caring and loving” and “a normal grandpa”.

Trump’s second youngster Ivanka Trump appeared together with her husband Jared Kushner. Each held key roles underneath the Trump administration, with Kushner advising on the Israeli-Palestinian battle and relations with China, Mexico and Canada. The couple didn’t take part on this marketing campaign.

Trump’s fourth youngster, Tiffany Trump, who has been much less lively in her father’s political profession however urged a rally this week to get out and vote, stood together with her husband, Michael Boulos.

Vice-president-elect JD Vance, a senator from Ohio, hailed Trump’s victory because the “greatest political comeback” in US historical past. Vance can be the writer of the best-selling memoir Hillbilly Elegy, about his childhood within the white working-class Rust Belt.

“He turned out to be a good choice,” Trump remarked. “I took a little heat at the beginning, but I knew the brain was a good one – as good as it gets.”

Vance celebrated together with his spouse Usha Vance. Born in California to Indian immigrants, she labored as a lawyer till her husband’s marketing campaign.

Key members of Trump’s marketing campaign workforce and allies, together with officers from his earlier administration, savoured their victory on stage.

The road-up included marketing campaign co-managers Susan Wiles and Chris LaCivita, RNC chair Michael Whatley, speechwriter Vince Haley, communications strategist Jason Miller, chief pollster Tony Fabrizio and senior adviser Dan Scavino.

Greatest-known was senior adviser Stephen Miller, one of many architects of the 2017 journey ban that originally barred nationals of a number of Muslim-majority nations from the US.

Additionally current had been adviser Boris Epshteyn, in addition to former administrator of the US Small Enterprise Administration Linda McMahon, who’s the present chairwoman of the board on the America First Coverage Institute.

They stood beside two elected officers: New York Consultant Elise Stefanik and Louisiana Consultant and Home Speaker Mike Johnson, who was flanked by his spouse Kelly Johnson.

Billionaire businessman Howard Lutnick additionally appeared as chairman of the Trump transition workforce.

Dana White, boss of the Final Preventing Championship (UFC), took to the rostrum to declare that “nobody deserves this more” than Trump and his household.

“Couldn’t stop him, he keeps going forward, he doesn’t quit, he’s the most resilient, hard-working man I’ve ever met in my life,” he mentioned. White additionally thanked “the mighty and powerful” podcast host Joe Rogan, who endorsed Trump.

Trump – a golf lover who confronted an obvious try on his life at his Florida golf course two months in the past – later pulled on-stage US Open champion Bryson DeChambeau.

The pair performed a spherical of golf collectively over the summer season for the golfer’s YouTube channel.

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