Former President Donald Trump’s youngest son, Barron Trump, has declined to serve as a delegate at this summer’s Republican National Convention, according to a senior Trump campaign adviser and a statement from Melania Trump’s office.

“While Barron is honored to have been chosen as a delegate by the Florida Republican Party, he regretfully declines due to prior commitments,” the statement from the former first lady’s office said.

Barron Trump, who turned 18 in March, had been selected by the Florida GOP to serve as an at-large delegate at the July convention. Several other Trump family members – including Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump and Tiffany Trump – were also selected as delegates.

  • @[email protected]
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    6225 days ago

    I wonder if this is a sign that the apple perhaps did fall a bit further than expected from the tree… but at this point, it’s far too soon to tell.

    Honestly, despite the fact that I think his father may be one of the worst people living in this country at the moment, I’m willing to give the kid the benefit of the doubt. Kellyanne Conway’s daughter, after all, delights in fucking with her mom, and actually seems to have her head on straight. The same thing could happen here. The way his parents are PRing this kinda smells like they’re entirely handling his media exposure. Sure, it could be true and it was just a conflict. But it could also have just been him outright refusing, and them spinning a yarn to save face. Time will tell, I suppose.

    • @[email protected]
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      2224 days ago

      I feel bad that his path was set for him from birth, but there is no way he’s not being politically groomed. Considering how they will pedestal Mike Lindell, Kyle Rittenhouse, even Linda Tripp… here they had a young, impressionable child - God knows what he’s been told during his most formative years. None of us were born understanding politics- I didn’t even really know anything beyond the names of the parties until I was 21ish…

      • @[email protected]
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        2324 days ago

        Honestly? I feel like there’s a good chance he knows what’s up. And I think he probably understands why most people fucking HATE his dad.

        The real question is basically whether or not he’s been pulled into the bro-y frat-y toxic incel shitshow. And frankly, the fact that he’s been conspicuously and (as far as I know) entirely silent on the political front makes me suspicious he may just be biding his time until he can get out from under his dads thumb.

        • @[email protected]
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          724 days ago

          This is my thought as well. I hope he can make it out of there sooner rather than later. Go to college as far away as they’ll pay for then keep going when you’re done.

    • @Eldritch
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      1324 days ago

      Let me start by stating that I do not think his mother is a very good person. For multiple reasons. However I don’t think she is the monster her husband is. I don’t have a link to the video currently. But I remember back in 2015-2016 8 years ago. A 10 to 12 year old Barron Trump and Melania being interviewed by inside edition? And the thing that struck me the most. Was that this child born in and raised in the United States. Had been so isolated and insulated from everything not just his father. He spoke with the accent of a Slovenian immigrant. What little he did speak.

      Mind you that isn’t a dig at his intelligence. Because I’m sure he probably does speak his mother’s native language as well as english. Which is more than many of us could say. But the fact that he was so isolated not just from his father but from everyone else around him. That he didn’t speak English like a New Yorker or just naturally at all. It really tells you who he was raised around. Which can give you some hope that he won’t be the outright monster his father is.

      I think it’s important to remember that Trump became a monster not because of genetics. But because of his father. That fuck, Fred. Not to mention his frigid mother. However Fred Trump was such a bastard it was celebrated in song. Buy one of America’s great socialist song writers. And unlike the rest of his siblings. He latched on to his abusive father and they became inseparable. His father feeding his mental illness.

      Considering how Donald generally treats Baron I don’t think he’s going to have a lot of affection for his father. He was whining so much about needing the day off for Barron’s graduation. Yet he couldn’t even spend a whole day. One single day celebrating something like that. Because. His election is so important to him that he cannot take one full day to spend with his son.

      I think it’s pretty safe to say whatever Baron becomes good or bad. He’s likely to be his own man. Not a carbon copy narcissist like his father or leaches like his Step Brothers.

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        624 days ago

        Oh yeah. Dudes gonna be in therapy for the rest of his life.

        That’s not a dig on therapy, or people who have it incorporated into their mental health care - I myself do it. Just a statement that he’s surely got REAMS of stuff to work through because both of his parents and all of his siblings are varying shades of psychotic.

    • Glifted
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      2324 days ago

      That seems optimistic, but hey the kid is 18. Who knows who he’ll turn out to be?

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        2124 days ago

        Yeah probably.

        He needs the opportunity to choose the right path before we condemn him just because of his blood.

      • @scutiger
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        1024 days ago

        Hopefully he grows up to be a decent human being

  • @dirthawker0
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    4825 days ago

    I’m pretty sure it was Melania who noped him out of that. It wouldn’t surprise me if Trump didn’t bother actually asking the kid if he wanted to do it before trying to shove him up on stage.

    • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
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      3625 days ago

      I’d imagine the idea of using the child she was carrying when he cheated on her with a porn star in the middle of his criminal trial for paying her hush money as a political pawn didn’t sit right with Mels.

      • Billiam
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        Nah, I bet she didn’t give one flying fuck about that (until it became public and made Trump look bad [well, worse]). There’s no way Melania didn’t have ulterior motives for marrying Trump- it wasn’t love, it was money/power/promises/Russian handlers that created that relationship. Reportedly one of her bodyguards is her own side piece.

        This was Trumpty-Dumpty doing one of his “power moves from the 80s”- claiming that Barron was going to be a delegate, forcing the RNC to either accept it or risk losing face/the wrath of the MAGAts. It’s not the first time he’s done that before.

      • @Tyfud
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        724 days ago

        So many brand new sentences are happening because of orange Moussillini.

  • @shyguyblue
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    4025 days ago

    Stolen from another post, but what the hell kinda of party nominated someone who has never voted before, to be a delegate!?

    • @maniacal_gaff
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      4125 days ago

      Seriously, this is like trying to bring back the monarchy. Fuck the GOP.

    • @njm1314
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      424 days ago

      It’s not like being a debate actually matters this year, or most years really.

  • @kikutwo
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    3024 days ago

    On account of me being a child and having absolutely no experience in anything whatsoever, I hereby decline.

    • @AdamEatsAss
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      1024 days ago

      “he regretfully declines due to prior commitments” AKA he’s too busy smashing poon and ripping lines.

  • @pyre
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    2924 days ago

    the fact that he was even considered… they just want to go back to being peasants and worshipping royalty

  • @ATDA
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    1924 days ago

    Yeah once check of the Internet would probably have me thinking, “a quieter life letting Daddy pay my through college seems like a better choice.”

    • @sfbing
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      324 days ago

      I had left the thread before this sank in, and had to come back in to upvote. I agree, he is off limits again.