Chances are, Barron Trump could learn most of what there is to know about the real estate business by listening to his father. The youngest son of Donald Trump turned 19 on March 20, and one can imagine he was feted in fine fashion.
His father famously built a real estate empire in New York, and after enrolling at New York University last year, Barron is once again living in Trump Tower, where he grew up.
For his part, Donald Trump has not revealed too much about his son’s life, although it was let on that Barron played an important role in last year’s Republican election win in helping his father secure the younger vote. Indeed, it can be assumed that Donald needed all the help he could get where keeping up with the times is concerned.
Rumor has it that the POTUS – despite having what many consider to be the most prominent job in the world – is a technophobe, and computers really aren’t his thing.
The president himself did little allay those fears when he claimed that Barron can do something “magic” with his computer: Turn it on.
Barron Trump celebrated his 19th birthday on March 20th. The youngest son of Donald Trump left Palm Beach for his home city of New York last year when he enrolled at Stern Business School at New York University. According to a People Magazine source, Barron’s been “popular with the ladies” since starting classes in September.
“He’s at Stern so he’s studying business in some way. He’s a ladies man for sure. He’s really popular with the ladies,” the source said. “He’s tall and handsome. A lot of people seem to think he’s pretty attractive — yes, even liberal people like him.”
Even so, Barron appears to have had a hard time making friends at New York University. According to US outlet TMZ, he has turned to online gaming, inviting classmates to play with him in the virtual world. That said, he has found a clever way to connect with new college friends.
According to TMZ, he has invited them to join him on the popular gaming platform Discord, where users play games and chat with each other. Since he’s a big soccer fan, he plays the popular video game EA Sports FC 25.
How Barron Trump is making friends at NYU
The journey from Trump Tower to New York University doesn’t take long, but Barron is reportedly escorted to and from campus in an SUV. Barron Trump has Secret Service agents at his side wherever he goes. As the son of Donald Trump, during his childhood it was never a question of whether his parents could put food on the table or not, but rather a question of how far into the realms of outrageous luxury they wanted to go.
Growing up in a rather “closed” environment, it’s said, has affected him a lot.
A source told People Magazine that the 19-year-old is “an old soul who is smart, well-spoken and well-read.”
“He has lived through experiences others his age haven’t,” the source said, adding that the European influence from his mother, Melania Trump, and maternal grandparents has played a big part in how he’s been raised.
“He is well-grounded, he has seen a lot and he knows who he is,” the source added, while a Palm Beach source told People Magazine that Barron “has more characteristics of a European than an American.”
“He isn’t as aggressive as many of his age when they are in their own social circles. He is someone who listens before talking, and is super polite,” the source explained.
Donald Trump praised Barron for helping him win the 2024 Presidential Election
Barron has been kept largely outside the spotlight for much of his life. Not much is known about his private life, but on Inauguration Day, he got a lot of attention. When his father spoke to his supporters in Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C., he praised his youngest son for his efforts during the campaign.
Although it didn’t show in public, Barron helped his father by sharing some well-needed advice on how to reach younger voters. Speaking with the Daily Mail, Donald Trump revealed that Barron helped him connect with Gen Z voters through influences and podcasters.
“He is — he knows so much about it. Adin Ross — you know, I mean I do — some people that I wasn’t so familiar with. Different generation. He knows every one of them. And we’ve had tremendous success, as you know,” Trump told the UK news outlet in early September.
“We did three unusual — and I don’t know what you’d call them but it’s a platform — with three people that I don’t know, but three people that Barron knows very well,” he continued. “[He] actually calls all of them like friends of his because it’s a different generation.”
Trump concluded: “They don’t grow up watching television the same way as we did. They grow up looking at the internet or watching a computer. But Barron knew them.”
“He understood it very well”
When his father introduced him to a cheering crowd on Inauguration Day, Donald asked the crowd if they had heard of his “tall son.”
“He knew the youth vote. You know we won the youth vote by 36 points,” Trump said. “He was saying,’ dad, I got to go out and to this and that one and we did a lot of them. He respects them all, he understood it very well, he said’ dad, you got to go out and do Joe Rogan, all these guys that we did. They were all great, right? Barron, they were all great.”
While Barron played an important part in helping his father reach the younger voters, it has been claimed that he did much more than that. A new book by Axios reporter Alex Isenstadt reveals just how much the now 19-year-old was involved in his father’s pursuit of a second term at the White House.
In June, Trump’s opponent looked to be Joe Biden, who later decided to step out of the race for the presidency. But before one of their debates, Barron gave his father some well-needed advice, according to Isenstadt’s book Revenge: The Inside Story of Trump’s Return to Power.
“Barron, now a teenager, told him he flapped his gums too much last time and needed to let Biden do more of the talking,” Isenstadt wrote, as quoted by the Daily Mail. “Flapping your gums’ is a derogatory, colloquial term for talking too much, too often and without substance.”
Isenstadt added: “Trump listened to his son, who was expressing some interest in politics and a willingness to be more public after being shielded from the cameras during the White House years.”
At present, Barron is fully focused on his studies, and whether he will follow in his father’s footsteps—either in the real estate business or politics—remains to be seen. The 19-year-old broke his family’s tradition by attending Stern Business School, as his father and several other Trump family members have chosen the University of Pennsylvania or Georgetown in the past.
“Once he goes out in the world and makes his own mark people will have a better idea of who he really is,” a Miami political source told People Magazine. “Now his parents have a big influence on him.”
“Barron is focused on his studies and doesn’t seem terribly out of place,” a source recently told PEOPLE of the college student’s presence on campus. “He seems to have a button-down collar mentality when he’s in the public eye.”
While Barron almost certainly uses computers day-to-day, that’s not the case with his father. Donald reportedly opts not to use computers or email at all, and oftentimes, when speaking about technology, it becomes apparent that he isn’t knowledgeable.
Donald says he was impressed that Barron Trump ‘could turn his laptop on’
But just how little does Donald Trump know about computers? In a new interview with Fox News personality Laura Ingraham, the president bragged about his youngest son, stating that Barron could have a future in tech. Why? Well he knows how to turn his laptop on, of course.
“If you look at my kids, all of my kids, they’ve been very good, they’ve been very smart,” Donald said. “They love our country and they’re proud of their father.”
“He can look at a computer…” he continued. “I turn off his laptop, I said, ‘Oh good,’ and I go back five minutes later, he’s got his laptop, I say, ‘How do you do that?’ ‘None of your business, dad’. He’s got an unbelievable aptitude in technology,” Trump concluded.
