Donald Trump Jr. went to an Atlanta law school to celebrate his business partner and got a wall of boos instead.
Trump Jr., 48, a partner at the venture capital firm 1789 Capital and President Donald Trump’s son, was jeered by students at Emory University School of Law on Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2026 — one day after Democrats captured control of the House and Senate in the Nov. 3 midterm elections. He was on campus to support Omeed Malik, the firm’s co-founder and president, whose name was being added to a building at his alma mater during a ribbon-cutting ceremony, according to an unnamed source cited in video coverage of the visit.
“The country has rebuked you guys! The country has rebuked you,” one person yelled as Trump Jr. made his way through one of the buildings.
The boos and jeers kept coming. “We have the House and the Senate!” another heckler shouted. “Shame on you!” others chanted.
The visit reportedly caught students off guard, because they had not been told beforehand that Trump Jr. would be there.
Malik Answered With a Middle Finger
The man being honored did not let the heckling pass. Malik is seen in the video raising his middle finger at the students who were shouting at him and his business partner.
Malik runs 1789 Capital as president, and Trump Jr. came aboard as a partner after his father won the presidency in 2024. The firm’s growth since then has drawn intense scrutiny.
Rep. Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, opened an inquiry into the firm in late August, writing that it had developed “an uncanny ability” to identify companies set to benefit from Trump administration actions. The firm’s lawyers rejected the claims as “unsubstantiated and emotional aspersions.”
The Candidates He Stumped for Lost
Trump Jr. spent the closing days of the campaign trying his hand as a Republican kingmaker, with an election-eve blitz through Ohio and New York on behalf of Republican candidates, many of whom lost.
At a rally in Swanton, Ohio, on Monday, Nov. 2, he told the crowd that Democrats “want to make Ohio a state.” Ohio has been a state since 1803.
Ohio voters then ousted Republican Sen. Jon Husted and rejected gubernatorial hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy.
He Signed On to Vance’s Diagnosis
After the results came in, Trump Jr. threw his support behind Vice President JD Vance’s postmortem on the losses. “The reason we lost is the war,” Vance wrote.
The morning after the election, Trump Jr. reposted the message with four words and three emoji: “Every word of this is 💯💯💯.”