Barron Tr*mp showed up last night for his father while leaving Melania in the cold

Barron Tr*mp is not only the youngest and gangliest member of the cursed family, he’s also the most mysterious. The 19-year-old NYU student and full-time White House resident doesn’t often make public appearances, but when he does, it’s always noteworthy.

Consider last night’s State of the Union address, where Barron showed up to support his father’s sundowning tendencies put on dramatic display via the world’s most embarrassing speech. Barron accompanied his fellow Tr*mp spawn, including “most cancelled [person] in the world” Don Jr., fresh off his latest crypto scandal. Everything seemed to be on the up and up—until everyone realized that this is the first time we’ve seen Barron step out in quite some time. He might have come out for Tr*mp’s address, but he failed to show up to the premiere of his mother’s vanity documentary weeks earlier.

Which, of course, could mean nothing. Since the inauguration, Barron has kept his public appearances to a minimum. More importantly, he’s kept his mouth shut after letting it slip that he’s been a longtime supporter of Andrew Tate, the manosphere influencer accused of trafficking and r*pe, along with his brother Tristan Tate. This detail emerged late last year, in a New York Times profile about the brothers, and it seems that Melania was not happy about it, since Barron has been kept on a tight leash every since.

Earlier this month, Melania bitched to the press about how Barron still needs to be supervised constantly, even at his big age of 19. Though this could just be a way of her keeping tabs on her son as he navigates a famously tricky time to be in the public eye. As she’s said before, she doesn’t want a media circus forming around Barron—unless it’s the good kind.

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Perhaps that’s why the only news that youngest Tr*mp has made this year conveniently serves as a direct counter to his ties with the toxic Tate empire. In January, Barron made headlines after calling in a report to police concerning a young Russian woman in London being assaulted by her boyfriend.

At the State of the Union appearance, viewers were also surprised to see Barron wearing a blue tie, in contrast to the rest of the family’s MAGA red color coding. With Melania still playing the helicopter parent over her only son, it feels like a calculated story arc meant to distance Barron from her father’s by this point obvious legacy of abusing women, as documented countless times over in the Epstein files.

But if Melania is still concerned with keeping her son far away from scandal, he seems less concerned about showing up to support her. Even though Barron plays an (albeit small) role in the Brett Ratner-directed turd of a documentary Melania, even he couldn’t be caught dead showing up to the sparsely-attended Kennedy Center premiere.

So was Barron’s brief appearance at the State of the Union address mandated by a pissed-off Melania, or was it a way for Barron to subtly get back at his mother by showing up for his father and leaving her in the dust?

Impossible to say, since Barron famously never opens his mouth. Though judging by what happens when the rest of his family members open their mouths, that’s a shrew political move of its own.

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