The Tragic Life Of Barron Trump
Lifestyle News
By KATE PRINCE
Father Not Present
It’s estimated that 95% of dads attend their child’s birth, but Donald Trump passed on the event, perhaps as expected, given his tepid response to the pregnancy.
Barron was born in 2006, shortly after the couple gave an interview with People, during which the future president surmised, "I think it's easier for Melania if I'm not there."
In the same interview, Melania recalled telling her husband she was expecting a child: “I told him he'd be a daddy [...] And his reaction was ... at first he needed to take it in."
Grandparents
Barron is the only Trump heir who never met his father's parents. At the age of 93, Fred Trump died from pneumonia in 1999, and his wife, Mary Anne, died a year later.
Turbulent Childhood
When Trump was elected In 2016, the then-10-year-old Barron was catapulted from the relative normalcy of a celebrity kid to being the president's son.
Around a year later, he had to leave his friends at the swanky $45,000-a-term Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School in New York to become the new kid at St. Andrew's Episcopal.
No Freedom
Secret Service agents follow the president and their family everywhere, and for Barron, this continued until he was 16, so teenage freedom really didn't exist for him.
Secret Service agents follow the president and their family everywhere. For Barron, this continued until he was 16, so teenage freedom didn't exist.
Media Target
Barron had to deal with plenty of headline-hitting vitriol, as many pundits saw him as fair game because of his father's controversies despite his young age.
For example, in 2017, "Saturday Night Live" writer Katie Rich tweeted a contentious joke predicting that the young Barron "will be this country's first homeschool shooter."