Eric Trump talks about his father on Friday. Eric Trump: 'I really like humble Trump'

Eric Trump is enjoying the debut of his father’s newly unveiled “humble Trump” persona, the GOP nominee’s son said Friday.

Donald Trump delivered a speech Thursday night in which he expressed regret if any of his often-bombastic rhetoric had caused personal pain. The remarks came as somewhat of a shock from the former reality TV star, who has previously said that “to apologize for me is very difficult” and that the last time he said sorry was “too many years ago to remember.”


“I really like humble Trump, and that’s what I saw last night,” Eric Trump, appearing Friday on Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom,” said when asked to react to his father’s more apologetic tone. “That’s the father I know. And here’s a man who’s not a politician, he’s not a PC guy either, and he has run on not being politically correct and every single day he’s out there giving speeches.”

“He has strayed, and he admitted it last night. When he said it last night, the audience went crazy,” Eric Trump continued. “It’s cool that he toned it back. It was really neat that he did that.”

Throughout the campaign, Donald Trump has rarely shied from personal attacks against those who he felt had come at him. The real estate mogul has, at various points throughout the campaign, attacked the credibility of a Hispanic federal judge overseeing a case against him, mocked a reporter with a physical handicap and suggested without evidence that the father of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was involved in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

During the Republican primary, Trump was especially adept at pinning nicknames to his GOP opponents, including “little” Marco Rubio, “low-energy” Jeb Bush and “lying” Ted Cruz. In addition to pinning a nickname on Cruz and tying his father to the Kennedy assassination, Trump also went after the senator’s wife by retweeting an unflattering photo of her.

Perhaps Trump’s biggest campaign trail feud was with the Muslim family of fallen U.S. Army Capt. Humayun Khan, killed in Iraq in 2004. With his wife at his side, Khizr Khan delivered a blistering rebuke of Trump at the Democratic National Convention, asking the GOP nominee if he had “even read the United States Constitution” as he pulled a small copy from his jacket pocket. Khan spoke of his son and said to the Manhattan billionaire, “you have sacrificed nothing.”

On Friday morning, Eric Trump said his father’s Thursday night speech might be a recognition that he was out of line in leveling some of his campaign trail attacks.

“Maybe a little bit of all,” Eric Trump said when asked whether his father was expressing regret Thursday for his comments against the Khan family or others he has attacked. “I think there’s a lot of controversies over the course of the campaign that have been totally taken out of context. I think that last night he admitted that were probably sometimes he stepped a little bit over that line.”