He is a teenager who is getting ready for his high school graduation next week. But Barron Trump is now coming to understand just how fascinating he is to the world outside Oxbridge Academy, his elite Florida college.
This week it was suggested that Donald Trump’s youngest son, Barron, is set to serve as a Florida delegate to the Republican National Convention. It would make the 18-year-old one of 41 at-large delegates from Florida who are set to officially nominate his father as the GOP’s presidential candidate in July.
The convention will be something of a family affair, as other delegates include Barron’s half-siblings, Donald Trump Jr, 46, Eric, 40, and Tiffany, 30. Ivanka, 42 – Donald’s “favourite child” according to the 2022 documentary Unprecedented – has reportedly left politics and will not attend.
Then, just a few days later, the office of his mother Melania sent out a statement saying that “While Barron is honoured to have been chosen as a delegate by the Florida Republican party, he regretfully declines to participate due to prior commitments.” But by then, hundreds of news articles had been written and posted on the internet, bringing him into the spotlight like never before.
It’s the first time that Barron, who was largely shielded from the media while he was growing up, has been associated with the public arena. In fact, so little is known about the member of the Trump clan they call “Little Donald”, that when an eight-second video surfaced this week of him speaking at a dinner, social media went wild.
Many commented that his accent was similar to his brothers’, and that with his gangly 6ft 7in frame, he also looked and sounded remarkably like Cousin Greg from Succession.
