If there’s one person who knows the meaning of sacrifice it is Donald Trump, the guy who was forced to abandon his gold-encrusted penthouse and his flourishing TV career in order to embark on the four-year inconvenience that is serving as America’s president. “I think I’ve made a lot of sacrifices. I work very, very hard,” Trump said in July after gold-star father Khizr Khan accused him of slacking off, adding that he had created “thousands and thousands of jobs” and that “I think those are sacrifices, I think when I can employ thousands and thousands of people, take care of their education, take care of so many things.”

When he chose to move into the White House, Trump was forced to give up a life he “loved”—one in which he had “so many things going.” And now, it seems his oldest son is feeling the pinch as well. On Tuesday, Donald Trump Jr. told an Indian television station that narratives about the Trump family profiting off the presidency are totally misguided, because they ignore the brutal sacrifices the family has made in order to serve the country. When the haters talk about the Trump Organization “profiteering from the presidency and all this nonsense,” he explained, they fail to mention “the opportunity cost of the deals that we were not able to do.” That, Donny said, is “sort of a shame. Because we put on all these impositions on ourselves and essentially got no credit for actually doing that . . . for doing the right thing.”

The question arose thanks to Don’s India trip, which was ostensibly arranged so he could shill condos on his family’s behalf. Although the Trump brothers, who took over day-to-day management of the Trump Organization after daddy got elected, promised not to initiate any new international deals during their father’s presidency, they reserved the right to promote projects that were already in the works prior to November 8, 2016. That means that, in Donny’s mind, there’s absolutely no ethical issue whatsoever with him crisscrossing India to pitch million-dollar condos to people who might see the purchase as an easy way to lobby someone close to the president. (To make things even easier, home buyers who pony up a $38,000 “booking fee” get to join Trump for “a conversation and dinner,” according to ads promoting his visit.)

Ethics experts like Scott H. Amey, who clearly didn’t get the memo that the Brothers Trump are to be praised for the sacrifices they’ve made leaving all sorts of money on the table, are apparently unmoved. “The president should be putting the public’s interest before his business interests. That can’t happen if his son is flying around the world trying to trade on the fact that his father is sitting in the Oval Office,” Amey, general counsel for the nonpartisan Project on Government Oversight in Washington, told the Associated Press. He added that a number of the foreign deals being promoted by Trump’s large adult sons have “stretched the definition of what ventures were previously in the works.”