Kai Trump Posts Video That’s So Clueless, Critics Are Comparing Her To Marie Antoinette

Let them eat $21 Hailey Bieber smoothies.

On Sunday, Kai Trump — the 18-year-old granddaughter of President Donald Trump and daughter of Donald Trump Jr. and Vanessa Trump — announced on X that she had a “New video out now on YouTube!”

And the nearly 19-minute video, titled “I Brought My Secret Service to Erewhon,” got quite the reaction — but likely not the one the aspiring professional golfer was hoping for.

President Donald Trump and his granddaughter Kai Trump walk to Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in 2025.

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Two-thirds of the video shows Trump shopping at Erewhon, a high-end Los Angeles-area grocery store, where she picks up a mason jar full of dates for $17, Ashwagandha capsules for $23, and a viral Hailey Bieber “Strawberry Glaze Skin” smoothie for $21, as well as a few more wellness and pre-prepared food items.

She pokes fun at all the products in the store with collagen and peptides, and appears shocked by the $165 price tag for Erewhon hoodie — but it doesn’t come off as totally sincere, considering that she hawked her own branded sweatshirt for $130 just last year.

At the end of the shopping portion of the video, the president’s granddaughter jokes that she’s “about to go bankrupt” before checking out. Her grand total for the grocery haul — which consisted of so few items that her basket was barely filled — ended up being $233.

Afterward, the video shows her waiting on the street for a Secret Service motorcade to pick her up and take her to her hotel. Once there, she takes out her items, tries and reviews them.

Trump doesn’t like her pricey dates, saying they taste “expired,” but deems the Bieber smoothie “really, really good!” She then digs into some store-bought sushi, and finds it so “fishy, and like hard” that she runs to the bathroom to spit it out, then throws out almost the entire tray. She also eats a $37 hot plate that consists of short ribs, buffalo cauliflower and rice balls. She loves the cauliflower, but deems the rest of the meal “mid.”

“I low-key feel I can make this at home for under $10,” Trump says after eating the meal, which is funny because a single tray of four short ribs at Kroger currently costs about $13.

Kai Trump attends the third day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee on July 17, 2024.

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Last year, Kai Trump reportedly earned more than $1 million through golf-related endorsements and sponsorship deals, so people wondered why she needed a Secret Service detail at taxpayer expense to do something so ... well, silly.

Critics on X called the teen’s video “tone deaf,” especially since her grandfather’s policies have resulted in “raising prices so people can’t [afford] homes, groceries, and now gas.”

“Girl read the fucking room,” one X user wrote. “People can’t afford to put gas in their tank.”

But even more prevalent were two very specific responses to the video. One was that people immediately compared Trump to Marie Antoinette.

Others focused on more recent history — or to be more specific, the conflict her grandfather just sparked with Iran and his nonchalant attitude about its possible consequences.

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