US President Donald Trump [Getty Images]
US President Donald Trump [Getty Images]

Donald Trump Jr., the eldest son of US President Donald Trump, was heckled by students on a college campus the day after the Republican Party's crushing midterm election defeat.

According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Trump Jr. made an unannounced appearance Tuesday at Emory University School of Law in Atlanta, Georgia, at a scholarship donation event hosted by alumnus and attorney Omid Malik.

Trump Jr. is a partner at 1789 Capital, a venture capital firm founded by Malik.

Zara Abdullah, a law student at the university, spotted Trump Jr. sitting in the front row and shouted at him: "The whole country is rejecting you" and "We took the Senate and the House."

When security guards and event staff escorted Abdullah out of the venue, several other students followed and walked out as well.

Trump Jr. did not respond. Malik defended his guest, saying students who behave that way "have no future," and called Trump Jr. "my proud friend Don," the AJC reported.

Emory University is a leading private university in Georgia.

President Trump and the Republican Party carried Georgia in the 2024 presidential election. In the midterm elections held Nov. 3, however, the party suffered a heavy defeat, losing key offices including the governorship.

The AJC said Trump Jr. "got a taste on a college campus of just how badly his father and the Republican Party had been beaten."

Trump raises fraud claims over midterms

Separately, President Trump has moved to raise election fraud allegations over the midterm results.

On Monday (local time), Trump posted on his Truth Social account: "Do you really believe the election was fair?" and "How could the polls have been so wrong?"

Trump added: "The dump of early votes was so massive that no matter how many people showed up to vote, it was impossible to win," and said, "It's all about the machines. The machines are more important than the voters."

The remarks are widely interpreted as a claim that early ballots were overwhelmingly cast for Democratic candidates, and that even strong in-person turnout by Republican supporters on election day could not overcome what Trump alleges was fraud in early voting — leading to the party's midterm defeat.

On the day of the midterm elections Nov. 3, after the Republican rout was confirmed, Trump said he was "totally willing to accept the results." His latest posts amount to a reversal of that position, coming just six days later.

Senate Democratic Floor Leader Chuck Schumer linked to Trump's post on X and wrote: "Trump's pathetic return to election denialism was inevitable," adding, "He can whine all he wants, but he can't stop this unavoidable truth."


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