A resurfaced video from 2010 shows Donald Trump offering sweet words of wisdom to Barron, then four years old.
A lot has changed for the two since then, as Donald won the presidency twice and Barron now attends New York University’s business school.
The love between father and son is evident in the clip, which is from an episode of Larry King’s former CNN talk show.
When he was better known as ‘The Donald’ for his NBC megahit The Apprentice, he offered some very informed advice to his young son while asking him for a kiss goodbye.
‘I want all A’s. And when you’re older, no drugs. No alcohol. No cigarettes. And you know what else? No tattoos. I never want to see your tattoos.
Barron then talks to his mother Melania, who lets him know that she is about to go to lunch and school.
He sees his father once again, a small briefcase in tow as Trump says he’s on his way to learn “reading, writing and arithmetic.”
The advice is consistent with the life of Trump, who has openly expressed his decision to be teetotal after the tragic death of his brother, Fred Trump Jr.
A resurfaced video from 2010 shows Donald Trump offering sweet words of wisdom to Barron, then four years old.
A lot has changed for the two since then, as Donald won the presidency twice and Barron now attends New York University’s business school. In this screenshot, he is seen leaving Donald’s office with a small suitcase in his hand.
Trump has spoken candidly about Fred Jr.’s death, telling the New York Times that he was wrong to upset his brother when they were young for abandoning the family real estate business.
Donald said he was “too young” at the time and wishes he had told him, “You have to do what you love.”
“I’ve known a lot of people who were so strong and powerful (yet) that they couldn’t stop drinking,” he said.
‘(Fred) was a great guy, a handsome person. He was the life of the party. He was a fantastic guy, but he got stuck in alcohol.
‘And it had a profound impact and eventually (he) became an alcoholic and died of alcoholism. He told me: “Never drink.” He understood the problem I had and that it was a very difficult problem.’
In 2018, he suggested that he had never used drugs, adding to the claim that he had “never had a beer” as a youth or adult.
Trump told a reporter who asked him about Brett Kavanaugh’s underage drinking: “I don’t drink.” I have never drunk. I don’t drink beer. I’ve never had a beer. And I’m not saying good or bad, some people like it. I just chose not to for many reasons.
‘I remember my university days, everyone drank. It was something normal. I was abnormal. It was totally normal. Everybody drank and used to drink a lot of beer and nothing happened,” he said on the South Lawn of the White House. ‘I just didn’t choose to do that, but almost everyone else did. I don’t see anything wrong.’
A lot has changed for the two since then, as Donald won the presidency twice and Barron now attends New York University’s business school.
Trump has told reporters that he has never drunk and joked, “Can you imagine” what a disaster it would be if he had indulged in drink?
‘I’m not a drinker. I can honestly say I have never had a beer in my life. It’s one of my only good traits. I don’t drink. Whenever they look for something I tell them “I’ve never had a glass of alcohol. I’ve never had alcohol for whatever reason.” Can you imagine if I had the disaster it would be? It would be the worst in the world. But I never drank,” he said.
However, a book published in 2019 shows that club owners, models and bartenders who were staples of New York City nightlife in the 1990s have insisted on having witnessed the future president drinking.
The clip of Donald and Barron, now 18, resurfaces as there has been a recent surge in interest in Trump’s youngest son and only child with First Lady Melania.
The president-elect’s youngest son is rarely seen in public, but is credited with helping his father earn the “brother vote” by getting him to participate in some podcast interviews.
The 6-foot-9 college freshman was “very involved” in selecting which podcasts the former president would appear on and was the one who urged him to sit down with video game streamer Adin Ross, as well as Joe Rogan, who presents the most popular program. podcast in the world.
In addition to appearing on podcasts, Trump also won over the hypermasculine bro vote by attending football games, UFC fights, and tapping into young men’s interests in alternative banking by launching his own cryptocurrency business.
Barron was also reportedly a driving force behind the cryptocurrency decision.
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, accompanied by Melania Trump (left) and Barron Trump, arrives to speak at an election night watch party.
On Election Day, his mother Melania posted online a photo she had taken of 18-year-old Barron at a voting booth, along with the caption: “He voted for the first time, for his father.”
At Trump’s victory rally in the early hours of Wednesday, public fascination with Barron Trump once again increased online, as it does every time he stands by his father’s side and it becomes clear how much taller he is.
It has been said that Donald Trump is not very interested in this unflattering comparison and goes to great lengths to avoid being photographed too close to a son who, at a reported height of 6’9″, is a good six inches taller than him .
All this from the young man who, just a few years ago, was a soccer-obsessed mama’s boy who was never allowed to stray too far from Melania. During his father’s first term as president, Barron became the first child to grow up in the White House since JFK Jr. in 1963. And insiders said he was much kinder and polite than they would ever expect a descendant to be. of Trump.
However, it grew quickly. In April of this year, after Barron had just turned 18, he invited a small group of influential podcasters and internet influencers to dinner at Mar-a-Lago.
“For an hour and a half, we watched Barron prepare dinner with stories, entertainment, everything,” said Patrick Bet-David, one of the guests. Donald Trump even appeared later to play the role of DJ, using his iPad to play (incredibly loud) songs like Sinead O’Connor’s ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’.
Then in May, it was announced that Barron had been chosen to serve as Florida’s delegate to the Republican National Convention. However, just two days later, his mother declined the invitation on his behalf “due to prior commitments.”
In July, Trump formally introduced Barron to the political world, at a rally in the Sunshine State, where he received two standing ovations.
A new video clip posted to Kai Trump’s YouTube shows the Trump family, including the towering Barron, watching election night coverage.
The Trump family, as well as Elon Musk and his four-year-old son, gathered to watch the results Tuesday night.
When Barron sat down, his father looked at the crowd: ‘It’s the first time he’s done it (he stands up to acknowledge the applause). That’s the first time, right? You are quite popular. He might be more popular than Don and Eric. We have to talk about this. Hey, Don, we need to talk about this.
As Trump’s two oldest sons, Don Jr. and Eric, sitting nearby, smiled weakly, their father added: “Welcome to the scene, Barron.”
However, by then I hardly needed any introduction to the MAGA foundation. On social media, Barronmania is well established: Trump’s youngest son is often compared to Alexander the Great and Augustus Caesar.
There has been speculation that Trump – who can no longer rely on the services of his daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner in the government – could even pull Barron out of college to help him in the White House.
If so, he would surely have to answer to his First Lady. Melania reportedly hates politics and resents the intense scrutiny she receives as a result of Trump’s political career.
Still, it may be that Barron was always destined for politics.
“He’s a very opinionated person… He’s independent and opinionated and knows exactly what he wants,” Melania once told Parenting magazine about Barron. He was five years old at the time.