Eric Trump defends father's work ethic after schedule leak: 'Hardest-working man I've ever met in my life'

Kyle Moss

On Tuesday’s Fox & Friends, Eric Trump defended his father’s work ethic after Axios recently reported that the president’s schedule is roughly 60 percent “unstructured” so-called executive time.

“My father is the hardest-working man I’ve ever met in my life, and there is probably no one that knows him in this world as well as I do,” Eric said. “When I worked with him at our company, he was in the office at seven in the morning. He didn’t leave until all hours. He would call you at 11 o’clock at night. He would call you at five o’clock in the morning. My father doesn’t stop. He’s a machine.”

The executive vice president of the Trump Organization also went after Axios, which is an online news organization that launched in 2017.

“Those Axios people, you should have seen them on the campaign trail, where none of the reporters could keep up with my father, who is double their ages,” Eric said about his dad’s 2016 presidential campaign. “They’d be drinking Red Bull and Monster energy drinks, sleeping in the corner while he was doing his seventh rally of the day. I don’t want to hear it from them.”

Of course viewers on Twitter were quick to point out that Axios wasn’t on the campaign trail because it hadn’t yet launched.

Viewers also debunked Eric on Twitter after he said that the president “hasn’t left the White House in five weeks” earlier in the interview. People pointed to a photo the chief executive posted of himself golfing with legends Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus over the weekend.

But Eric stood by his view that President Trump is the “hardest-working person there is” based on what he has seen with his own eyes.

“I’ve never walked into the Oval Office where I didn’t see 30 people in the office,” Eric said. “Whether it be generals, or whether it be economists, or whether it be special guests or foreign leaders.”

Fox & Friends airs daily at 6 a.m. on Fox News.

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