{"id":5676,"date":"2025-03-26T09:17:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T09:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=5676"},"modified":"2025-03-26T09:17:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T09:17:43","slug":"donald-trump-stunned-by-barrons-ability-to-turn-on-laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=5676","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump \u2018stunned\u2019 by Barron\u2019s ability to turn on laptop"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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For his part, Donald Trump\u00a0has not revealed too much about his son\u2019s life, although it was let on that\u00a0Barron\u00a0played an important role in last year\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

Rumor has it that the POTUS \u2013 despite having what many consider to be the most prominent job in the world \u2013 is a technophobe, and computers really aren\u2019t his thing.<\/p>\n

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The president himself did little allay those fears when he claimed that Barron can do something \u201cmagic\u201d with his computer: Turn it on.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0People Magazine\u00a0source, Barron\u2019s been \u201cpopular with the ladies\u201d since starting classes in September.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe\u2019s at Stern so he\u2019s studying business in some way. He\u2019s a ladies man for sure. He\u2019s really popular with the ladies,\u201d the source said. \u201cHe\u2019s tall and handsome. A lot of people seem to think he\u2019s pretty attractive \u2014 yes, even liberal people like him.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Even so, Barron appears to have had a hard time making friends at New York University. According to US outlet\u00a0TMZ, 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.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s a big soccer fan, he plays the popular video game EA Sports FC 25.<\/p>\n

How Barron Trump is making friends at NYU<\/h2>\n

The journey from Trump Tower to New York University doesn\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n

Growing up in a rather \u201cclosed\u201d environment, it\u2019s said, has affected him a lot.<\/p>\n

A source told\u00a0People Magazine\u00a0that the 19-year-old is \u201can old soul who is smart, well-spoken and well-read.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has lived through experiences others his age haven\u2019t,\u201d the source said, adding that the European influence from his mother,\u00a0Melania Trump, and maternal grandparents has played a big part in how he\u2019s been raised.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is well-grounded, he has seen a lot and he knows who he is,\u201d the source added, while a Palm Beach source told People Magazine that Barron \u201chas more characteristics of a European than an American.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe isn\u2019t 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,\u201d the source explained.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump praised Barron for helping him win the 2024 Presidential Election<\/h2>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Although it didn\u2019t show in public, Barron helped his father by sharing some well-needed advice on how to reach younger voters. Speaking with the\u00a0Daily Mail, Donald Trump revealed that Barron helped him connect with Gen Z voters through influences and podcasters.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is \u2014 he knows so much about it. Adin Ross \u2014 you know, I mean I do \u2014 some people that I wasn\u2019t so familiar with. Different generation. He knows every one of them. And we\u2019ve had tremendous success, as you know,\u201d Trump told the UK news outlet in early September.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe did three unusual \u2014 and I don\u2019t know what you\u2019d call them but it\u2019s a platform \u2014 with three people that I don\u2019t know, but three people that Barron knows very well,\u201d he continued. \u201c[He] actually calls all of them like friends of his because it\u2019s a different generation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump concluded: \u201cThey don\u2019t 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe understood it very well\u201d<\/h2>\n

When his father introduced him to a cheering crowd on Inauguration Day, Donald asked the crowd if they had heard of his \u201ctall son.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe knew the youth vote. You know we won the youth vote by 36 points,\u201d Trump said. \u201cHe was saying,\u2019 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\u2019 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u2019s pursuit of a second term at the White House.<\/p>\n

In June, Trump\u2019s opponent looked to be\u00a0Joe 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\u2019s book\u00a0Revenge: The Inside Story of Trump\u2019s Return to Power<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cBarron, now a teenager, told him he flapped his gums too much last time and needed to let Biden do more of the talking,\u201d Isenstadt wrote, as quoted by the Daily Mail. \u201cFlapping your gums\u2019 is a derogatory, colloquial term for talking too much, too often and without substance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Isenstadt added: \u201cTrump 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\u00a0White House\u00a0years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Barron Trump has a \u201cbutton-down collar mentality,\u201d source says<\/h2>\n

At present, Barron is fully focused on his studies, and whether he will follow in his father\u2019s footsteps\u2014either in the real estate business or politics\u2014remains to be seen. The 19-year-old broke his family\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce he goes out in the world and makes his own mark people will have a better idea of who he really is,\u201d a Miami political source told People Magazine. \u201cNow his parents have a big influence on him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBarron is focused on his studies and doesn\u2019t seem terribly out of place,\u201d a source recently told PEOPLE of the college student\u2019s presence on campus. \u201cHe seems to have a button-down collar mentality when he\u2019s in the public eye.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Barron almost certainly uses computers day-to-day, that\u2019s 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\u2019t knowledgeable.<\/p>\n

Donald says he was impressed that Barron Trump \u2018could turn his laptop on\u2019<\/h2>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you look at my kids, all of my kids, they\u2019ve been very good, they\u2019ve been very smart,\u201d Donald said. \u201cThey love our country and they\u2019re proud of their father.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe can look at a computer\u2026\u201d he continued. \u201cI turn off his laptop, I said, \u2018Oh good,\u2019 and I go back five minutes later, he\u2019s got his laptop, I say, \u2018How do you do that?\u2019 \u2018None of your business, dad\u2019. He\u2019s got an unbelievable aptitude in technology,\u201d Trump concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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