Newsman: President Donald Trump announced Monday that he will be revoking the Secret Service protection of his predecessor’s two adult children “immediately,” calling the number of people assigned to the detail “ridiculous.”
Trump complained that Democratic President Joe Biden’s two children, Hunter Biden, 55, and Ashley Biden, 43, have 18 and 13 people assigned to their detail, respectively, in a post on Truth Social.
“Hunter Biden has had Secret Service protection for an extended period of time, all paid for by the United States Taxpayer,” Trump wrote. “There are as many as 18 people on this Detail, which is ridiculous!”
“Likewise, Ashley Biden who has 13 agents will be taken off the list,” he wrote.
During a visit Monday afternoon to the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Trump was asked by a reporter about Hunter Biden’s detail as he vacationed in South Africa.
Trump said he was hearing about it “for the first time” and pledged to “take a look at.”
Within a matter of hours, Trump had revoked the protection not just of Hunter Biden but that of his sister.
Former presidents and their spouses (except when the spouse remarries) receive lifelong Secret Service protection, whereas their children are guaranteed protection under the age of 16, according to federal law.
In December, in one of his last acts as president, Biden pardoned his son Hunter Biden, who was convicted of three federal gun felonies and federal tax charges in 2024.
