Barron Trump will serve as a Florida delegate at the GOP convention
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Barron Trump, the youngest of the former president's children, will make his political debut this summer as a delegate at the Republican National Convention.
His name appears on a list of Florida delegates — along with other members of the Trump family — at the GOP convention in Milwaukee in July. The list, released Wednesday, also includes Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and his fiancée Kimberly Guilfoyle, and Tiffany Trump and her husband, Michael Boulos.
"Barron is very interested in our nation's political process," according to a source familiar with the selection.
The former president's older children have played key roles in Trump's political career and helped him manage his businesses. But he and former first lady Melania Trump have kept Barron, who turned 18 in March, out of the spotlight — until now.
Julian Zelizer, a professor of political history at Princeton University, said while there are notable examples of political family dynasties — such as the Bush and Kennedy clans — those families started in politics, and not in business as the Trumps have.
"The Trump family might be trying to position themselves as the next dynasty," said Zelizer, who noted both Eric and Don Jr.'s involvement and interest in politics.
According to Zelizer, Barron's selection as a delegate is "symbolic." But he said it serves as a sign that the Trump family intends to stick around in politics and further reinforce their political home base in Florida, where the patriarch holds many of his meetings at Mar-a-Lago.
"It signals that they have their eye on the future, that this was not just a one-shot deal," Zelizer said. "Will there be more Trumps in politics? ... This just adds to that speculation."
Barron Trump has been largely out of the public eye until recently, when Judge Juan Merchan, who is overseeing Trump's hush money payment trial in New York, announced that the court will not sit on May 17 so that Trump could attend his son's high school graduation ceremony. That is also the same day that the former president is slated to deliver the keynote address for the Minnesota Republican Party's annual Lincoln Reagan dinner, per reporting from radio station KFGO.
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Year of the acorn ... Let's Go Barron! /s
He's a corrupt POS like is worthless father, (whoever that is).
That’s a perfectly rational comment about an 18 year old,
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Obama's kids were much younger when the right wing was calling them apes and monkeys.
Even if that were true, what does that have to do with you attacking a kid in high school?
Are you saying you are no better than the racists that called Obama’s kids apes and monkeys?
Are you taking payback upon yourself?
Perhaps Frosty remembers the fun had with Nick Sandmann and his smirk against that sweet Native American and the peace drum.
What dishonesty are you aware of?
I could see the trump family becoming like the kennedy family, given the right set of circumstances...
Poor kid is being introduced to the dark side before he's even out of high school.
Conflict of interest, perhaps? I guess that doesn’t matter if you’re a Trump though.
Try again.
Is trmp going to clone himself so he can be in 2 places at the same time?
Or he could just fly in an airplane. Seems easier.