‘Oh no! Oh no! I’m dead, I’m dead!’ Kai Trump yells as she struggles with the controls of a game of Fortnite, after trying to panic build protection from an enemy in one of America’s most popular video games.
The first Trump adult grandchild teamed up in the Summer with professional gamer ‘Clix’ for a collaboration video with his audience of millions of young gamers.
Clix is teaching her how to play Fortnite, one of the nation’s most popular video games, and in turn, Kai gives him tips on how to improve his golf swing before heading out with their friends to race go-karts.
‘Really loved getting to know her off camera and shooting content with her on camera,’ Clix told the Daily Mail after the video went live.
Kai first learned about Clix from her brother Tristan, 13, a huge fan of his gamer content.
‘I don’t think I’ve seen this kid smile so big in his entire life,’ Kai tells him, as Tristan has a conversation with one of his favorite creators on the phone.
It’s been a year since Kai Trump started her popular YouTube channel for her fans to share some of her life behind the scenes of her life as the first adult grandchild of President Donald Trump.
Fans marveled as she cruised across the fairway in the presidential golf cart, as she and her grandfather watched the legion of Secret Service agents protecting the Trump National Golf Course outside of Washington, DC.
Kai Trump golfs with her grandfather President Donald Trump for a YouTube video
Kai Trump learns to play the video game Fortnite with ‘Clix’ a popular gamer streamer
‘You had too many close calls,’ Kai remarks, making a subtle observation on the multiple assassination attempts against his life.
‘I had some close calls, that’s true, honey,’ Trump chuckled wryly in response, before abruptly returning to a lighthearted conversation about their golf game.
The pair casually traded compliments about their golf swings and shots on the fairway in pursuit of birdies to lift up their scores. Kai has been playing golf since she was two, and together they share a close bond over their love of the game.
She has embraced her public life early, opening her world to her fans on social media as she prepares for life as a college golfer at the University of Miami.
Kai also announced this week that she had been invited to compete at The Annika, for the 2025 LPGA Tour season, at the Pelican Golf Club in Belleair, Florida.
The event will take place November 10-16.
The increased Secret Service presence is now an experience that the President’s family, including his eleven grandchildren, now shares.
Kai Trump admitted to her father Donald Trump Jr. during a golf trip video that having Secret Service follow her around is ‘tough’ but that it is a ‘good thing’ to protect her from the ‘wackos.’
She’s not wrong. In June, a man climbed a wall of the president’s Mar-a-Lago resort to both ‘spread the gospel’ to the president but also ‘marry Kai,’ he told police.
It’s a trade-off, she and her father acknowledge. They have great opportunities, but they also have to come to terms with the fact their lives will always be public.
Kai Trump models her new clothing brand in a photo shoot on the White House lawn
Kai Trump at the White House preparing to leave with her grandfather on Marine One
Trump also wrestles with the trade-off as he and his granddaughter trade comments about their golf swings on his gorgeous club outside of Washington, DC on the Potomac River.
‘If I wasn’t Donald Trump this would be top 10 in the nation,’ he muses.
But if he wasn’t Donald Trump, Kai Trump would not be at the White House with unprecedented access to the property.
As she steps on the White House South lawn with her video and photography team, Kai recalls her life in the first term where she had a broken arm and was kicking the soccer ball on the lawn with her uncle Barron Trump.
Now at age 19 and in college, Barron continues to keep his life private. Kai, however, at age 18 is embracing the Trump life that also comes with its perks.
This fall, she showed off her new branded line of sweatshirts as she chipped shots onto the White House putting green.
As she walks up and down the walkways at the White House, she laughs nervously at the president’s staff watching her from their offices.
White House aides were surprised to see her share video of from the president’s residence, teeing off in his personal golf simulator.
United States President Donald J Trump and his granddaughter Kai Trump walk to Marine One
Kai Trump shows off her new branded sweatshirts while visiting the White House
‘It’s pretty cool, not many people get to do that,’ Kai admits.
Her White House photo shoot drew some grumbling about the Trump family using the White House for personal profit, but the president and her fans do not care.
‘Let Kai Trump live her best life. She’s young, driven, and entrepreneurial, just like her family of winners, builders, and competitors,’ a former Trump aide told the Daily Mail.
Kai, her supporters argued, were nothing like the Biden family, pointing to Hunter Biden’s lifelong, behind the scenes grifting.
‘The Trumps stand for class, discipline, and loyalty. The Bidens? Parmesan off the ground, shady foreign deals, laptops, and cocaine in the White House,’ the former official noted. ‘We are not the same.’
But as her emerging social media presence proves, her life is more than just the White House and golf.
She eats too much Hibachi food with friends in Miami, goes shopping for pumpkin-spiced fall items, and spends time with her best friend Emma Markin.
A recent video featured a surprise for Emma for her birthday: A pink-wrapped Ford Bronco.
Kai also spends time with her mother Vanessa Trump, sharing a video of a trip together in the Hamptons.
Conservative social media influencers say Kai’s emerging online presence appears increasingly savvy in a world where her every move is scrutinized.
Kai Trump and friends share a moment on her YouTube channel
Kai Trump celebrating the beginning of senior year with her friends
‘She’s just living as her authentic self, you know, not apologizing for it, which is, to me is a key part of the Trump family,’ former White House senior advisor Katie Miller told the Daily Mail.
Miller now hosts her own podcast, unveiling details about her own life as a MAGA Republican, married with three children with powerful Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller.
Miller said she was pleased to see more MAGA republicans live their lives in public, proving to audiences they were real people, not one-sided caricatures created by the left.
‘You get to see a side that you don’t normally get to see in a way that’s relatable,’ she said.
Kate Johnson, a health and fitness influencer married to podcaster Benny Johnson said the modern era demanded that people grasp their own online identities.
‘I think when you are such a high-profile family, either you define yourself or the world will define you,’ she said.
Kai is off to a running start. When she heads to the University of Miami next fall, Kai already has over nine million followers on TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, and X.
Clix commented that Kai has demonstrated real progress with her unique online content.
‘I think she has a really bright future in the creator space, and her viewership shows it,’ he said.
