How Kai Trump Cleans ‘Grandpa’ Trump on Social Media

Donald Trump’s grandson and teenage golf prodigy Kai Trump is on its way to to become a mainstream MAGA influencerwith the sparkling athlete eager to share his charming anecdotes with the world about what it’s like to hang out with his re-elected “grandpa.”

The 17-year-old daughter of Donald Trump Jr. and his ex-wife Vanessa Trump went viral over the weekend once again, this time mimicking Trump’s dance moves and golf swings aboard his private jet — portraying the aspirational lifestyle that social media users look for in their chosen content, mixed with a deliberate softening of her president-elect’s grandfather who completely ignores his notorious habit of profane insults and crude remarks.

Along with a friend in the video, Kai Trump performed some of his grandfather’s oft-memed dance moves, set to the Village People’s “YMCA,” providing a simpler, smiley perspective on Trump, who Kai describes as a “hard worker” for “all Americans” ( just not the “bad hombres”, “ugly women”, “stupid women” or any of the other groups of people he regularly insults).

You won’t hear any of these insults on Kai’s accounts. Instead, the millions who follow the young Trump on social media will get what they Daily Mail has called “heartwarming” phone calls between the couple, and inside looks at their very cute “Sundays“together. In this world, Trump’s main message is not that “America is the trash of the world”, but that you must “believe in yourself” even when times are tough. How cute!

The audio that Kai Trump’s followers get from Donald Trump on her accounts is inspirational things from his speechesset to slideshow of her with her elderly grandfather, both with huge grins. And if that’s all you see of this pleasant, devoted grandfather, you’d think he’d never tried to overturn an election.

Her social media content is an extension of what the young Trump added to her grandfather’s campaign at the Republican National Convention last July, when she made her political debut to “show the side of my grandfather that people don’t often see .” Through her social media platforms, she can also show you “incredible” Honorable Trump Uncle Elon Musk is fangirling over one visit to SpaceX.

Her public praise of her grandfather stands in stark contrast to other, more rebellious Gen Z children of MAGA parents, like Claudia Conway, Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway’s daughter, who over the summer blasted Trump as “not a real Republican” — or Ted Cruz’s daughter Caroline, who went viral to expose Trump on camera earlier this month while her father was giving a victory speech to celebrate his and the president-elect’s election victories.

But Kai Trump seems to be playing a different kind of long game. It’s not just Donald Trump who looks good in Kai Trump’s world. The young golfer, as a dedicated athlete, is himself an aspirational figure whose existence has all the online indicators of a delightfully privileged life—the only true prerequisite for a successful influencer.

If you are one of the many Trump voters who, like his former White House aide Alyssa Farah Griffin, has repeatedly put it on The view“don’t like his personality or the things he says,” but voted for him anyway – Kai Trump’s socials offer a place of blissful ignorance where you can pretend, against beautiful, sunny backdrops, that all is right with the world, and maybe Trump just didn’t mean any of them fascist things he said.