Formerly shy, the last of the Trump sons, who measures 2.05 meters, played a significant role in the re-election of his father who appears more and more frequently at his side.
From its height of 2.05 meters, it is impossible to miss. Saturday, November 23, Barron Trump arrives on the patio of Mar a Lago, to have dinner with his parents. Aged 18, he stands out in this place where the average age is high. And this is the first time that we see him sitting in a suit and tie at the “presidential table”, among the members of the club who are photographing the scene. Usually, it is his older brothers Donald Jr. or Eric, family friends or political advisors who surround the president-elect in such circumstances. This outing only confirms what those close to us have known for several months: we will have to get used to the long silhouette of Barron Trump, who, on November 5, the evening of the victory, was on stage right next to his father , in the field of cameras.
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Until the last presidential campaign, however, he had remained in the background, under the protective eye of Melania. The son and mother are close: when they speak together, it is in Slovenian, which sometimes annoys Donald Trump who obviously does not understand his wife's mother tongue. Last weekend, a video from 2010, from Larry King Live, on CNN, emerged on social networks: we see Barron aged 4, already in a tie, playing with the briefcase His father's Vuitton in his office on the 26th floor of Trump Tower. And we hear him say with a strong Slovenian accent “I love this suitcase”. The scene went viral.
He was a teenager when his father entered the White House for the first time in 2017. At the time he was a shy boy. Witnesses remember that he managed to avoid appearing in the photographers' view. Many also claim that he is autistic. What her mother denies in her autobiography “Melania”, published in October. She specifies that, while “there is obviously nothing wrong with being autistic”, he was harassed online by this “cruel” and “malicious” rumor. She says she is “mortified” to have seen him “suffer” because of people who actually wanted, through him, “to reach (her) husband. »
A boy who is currently discreet in the media
After his father's defeat in 2020 against Joe Biden, Barron returned to Palm Beach where he finished his studies at a private school, the Oxbridge Academy, located about ten kilometers from Mar a Lago and which costs $34,800 per year. in tuition fees. A good student according to his father, he graduated with the equivalent of the baccalaureate last May. At the time, Donald Trump was in the middle of the Stormy Daniels trial and obtained an exemption from the judge to attend the “graduation ceremony”.
Barron, who had just reached the age of majority, was already making headlines because Republican delegates from Florida had just selected him to be one of their number at the July convention, which was to inaugurate his father. This sounds a lot like launching a political career, except that Melania thinks it's still too early and is opposed to it. Barron then advises his father in the shadows. He pushes him to go and express himself with several “podcasters” whom he adores, who share in common the fact of being favorable to the Trumpist cause and very followed by an electorate which will prove key in the election: men young people (millennials and Generation Z). “He said to me about a name I've never heard of: 'Dad you'll see, he's huge'. It’s very cute,” the president candidate joked on Fox News.
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Donald Trump, 78, agrees to spend 90 minutes with influencer Adin Ross, 23, to talk about cryptocurrency and the “unfair” legal setbacks of rapper Young Thug. “My son Barron says hello, he’s a fan of yours,” he told her at the start of the conversation. He is a huge audience hit with comedian Andrew Schultz (6.2 million views), comedian Theo Von with whom he talks about cocaine (14 million views), and businessman Patrick Bet-David ( 2.8 million views).
Since last September, Barron Trump has been studying business and finance at the prestigious Stern School of Business at New York University. Although he has so far never spoken in public and is still absent from social networks unlike his brothers, he nevertheless seems well on his way to following in his father's footsteps.
