I’d like to give him the benefit of the doubt, but his last name is Trump, so the odds of him being a cesspool of a human being are astronomically high.
Shit apples don’t fall far from the shit tree, Randy.
I know a kid who went to his last school. He said Barron was nice and well liked. He’s 18 so there’s little chance he isn’t having a rough time adjusting to adulthood especially considering being Trump’s son. Weird subject for a story though
This is shit journalism. Yeah, his name is Trump so he’s probably an asshole, but he’s living his life, which has no impact on your life or mine. He’s a private citizen, and his alleged assholery is not a public matter.
Prophecy has him as the final US President so he will always be part of the zeitgeist.
I used to believe in the whole private citizen but then seeing News really blew it up like “Obama’s daughters eat provolone cheese instead of American cheese!”.
What? His ‘living life’ that’s ‘not a public matter’ includes standing behind the president of the United States as he’s sworn in. He deserves the utmost public scrutiny, especially considering three of trumps other children already take an active role in his presidency. They meet world leaders, but you just want to avoid looking at whatever sketchy shit this one might be up to. He had the option to avoid the public and decided to be another gremlin like his clown ass brothers.
Next time don’t get on the stage if you don’t want the limelight.
You’re telling me your parents never dragged you around to stupid shit and expected you to pretend you weren’t pissed about being there?
Not at 18.
They did. They were also terrible and I moved out at 17.
Barron’s parents are without a doubt worse, he was 18 at the 2025 inauguration, and you still want to describe the situation as if he’s a small child getting dragged around by his legal guardians. He’s a little fascist under daddy fascists wing.
Rich parents exert a huge amount of control over their children via financial manipulation.
There’s been essentially no reporting on him, so where are you getting this “fascist” accusation from?
My daughter goes to NYU although she isn’t in the business school which probably has more conservative assholes than she encounters in her line of study. She says everybody around her thinks it’s weird and basically debate how much shit to give him should they cross his path.
From what I gather, there are two camps.
Camp A thinks he’s a trump therefore they’ll call him a fucking Nazi to his face if given the chance.
Camp B thinks he’s not responsible for his father’s actions but he hasn’t done anything to distance himself from them so they’ll call him a fucking Nazi to his face if given the chance too
It’s a very nuanced debate, I don’t know which side I would support.
NGL, you had me in the first half
Is this website just full of deranged people like Reddit?
You’re seeing the US fall into fascism in real time, and this is what you’re concerned about?
Hey, y’all… let’s go back to the old internet rule of not feeding the trolls. There’s a small enough amount of people actively posting right now to stop those users in their tracks if we ignore them.
In the attention economy don’t give them attention.
I appreciate it, but my comment was just as much of a throwaway comment, intentionally so
I like this comment because you can put it under anything.
It’s such a nothing comment; the only side it picks is that the commenter posting it is better than everyone else, and wants to invite argument for arguments sake.
Can’t put my finger on it, but it’s very “Twitter bot”-esque.
Account is only 2 hours older than the comment, so you’re probably spot on with the bot assessment
Yes, it’s not you, it’s the whole world that is deranged
Maybe they’re onto something. What if, instead of voting for people based on their ideals and record, we just passed leadership down through bloodline? Has anyone tried that before?
Based on primogeniture, wouldn’t that mean Don Jr is taking over? Then Eric? Clearly, the girls would be skipped…
So does this mean Barron is going to kill his brothers to ascend the throne?
Tentatively excited for the American War Of The Roses.
It’s all complex and entertaining until some Welsh cattle rustler slips in and steals the whole thing.
Some cultures embraced the concept of ultimogeniture, under the premise that the youngest child would be raised with the full benefit of wiser parents and inherit younger, but generally not too young.
It’s apparently pretty effective when the culture encourages the youngest child to stay home as a caretaker for their parents, but in terms of kingdom inheritance can cause problems.
Well, Don jr. will die from congenital gonnorea, and Eric is fated to drown in a bathroom after clogging a toilet with unshredded documents.
So does this mean Barron is going to kill his brothers to ascend the throne?
I mean, we can only hope…
That is on my 2026 bingo card, not 2025
UK here just saying that if you want a monarchy, we’ve got a decent one (as monarchies go) that won’t try to financially rape the peasants to death, we’ve moved past that now.
What say you Americans, ready to become Canada 2: Empire Boogaloo?
"You’ll be back…"🎶
I think we were a bit too hasty in declining George III’s declaration of love.
On campus, nobody really knows what’s up with that guy, other than that he’s not like any of the other students. “He’s sort of like an oddity on campus,” says Kaya Walker, the president of the NYU Republicans. “He goes to class, he goes home.”
That seems like a pretty kind assessment for what must be a super weird experience for everyone else on campus. A constant Secret Service presence seems like it must disrupt the other students’ lives, as well as the professors at the school. In fact, Walker quoted one of her own professors as saying “he doesn’t really belong here.”
I might be projecting here, but sounds to me like he just wants to be left alone. Like, no matter where he stands politically, being the son of the president alone (let alone this one) must be pretty difficult for an adolescent.
I say let’s leave him be and not judge him based on his family. If he if he joins the others, that’s different. But don’t treat him as an extension of his father, no matter how much of a dipshit that father may be.
I believe he tweeted something about the government stealing your money. He’s taken his stand.
That’s not really a stand on his father though. Just on government and taxes.
That’s pretty obvious what camp he’s in. Not just “fiscal conservative”, it’s burn down the government. You don’t need to extend past that to his father. Point is he’s openly taken his stand.
Yeah I agree. Even if he disagrees with his father, he can’t say it. The magats would be all over him.
I actually kind of feel bad for him, too. He’s in a difficult situation no matter what he thinks.
I wouldn’t expect the son of a sociopath to be terribly well-adjusted.
TWO sociopaths.
“He’s a guy you can have drinks with”… Uh no? He’s 18. You cannot have drinks with him unless your a piece of tra… Well that guy can, but that’s more like peer pressuring someone you really out age
I was very confused by your comment until I googled the drinking age in the US, and found it’s 21. I guess I assumed it was 18 like most countries
You are responsible enough for your own decisions at 18 that you can join the military and die for your country, but you can’t buy a drink for another 3 years.
That’s because in the 1980s when we looked into drunk driving deaths we found most involved 16-21 year olds. The nations that have better public transport or are more densely populated dont have these issues.
Hardly anyone who wants to drink at 18 doesn’t have access to alcohol.
Also decent chance he doesnt drink.
“The douche doesn’t fall far from the bag.”
The turd doesn’t fall far from the asshole
Don’t belittle douches like that, at least they have a purpose on this planet.
Nah, they’ve been pretty obsolete for the last couple of decades. They’re unhealthy for female reproductive organs, much like anyone with the last name “Trump”. It’s a fair comparison, IMO.
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Weird, is something most people can be called, I’m more concerned with the other linked article in the story, citing a former behavioral specialist of barron’s recounting stories of animal, physical, and sexual abuse…
Yikes.
I hope that Kaya takes this opportunity to open her damn eyes.
Not surprised this happened, though.
To be fair no one should be talking to the press about students going to school who haven’t done anything to be worthy of press attention.
True enough, yet here we are
She won’t.
MAGAs are weird
I love the fact that it’s turning out that he’s just like his brothers and fathers–empty.
Kid never had a chance…
Neither did Trump for that matter, but here we are.
The non-existent value of weirdly comparing his profile to a Greek statue aside, it’s not even a good comparison. He has a way more prominent nasal ridge, a higher, more angled and sharp jawline, lower cheek bones, and a much flatter brow/forehead. What exactly is meant to look similar here except that they are both white guys?
I see it more from the “Mythological” aspect. Less face simular and more both are legends and should be immortalized as statues.
Edit: To be clear I am not supporting the comparison. I am just explaining my take on the attempted symbolism of the image.
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Poor kid, he’s only 18 still, that’s gotta be a really tough way to grow up.
It didn’t help my kids growing up to have Trump in the Whitehouse either.
He is pretty rich kid, with close to zero possible problems in the future, and potential to become new US god-king after trump. Not that bad of a life.
On the one hand, you’re right.
But also, there’s a chance that Barron opens his eyes and sees how sheltered he is from everything, and that his only friends are people slightly less rich, and much older, than he is.
I know it’s not likely, so far all the trump progeny have been less useful than human shit, but I think there’s still a chance that Barron gets depressed because he “has it all” and can’t even play basketball with a potential new friend his own age.
ETA: damn, I guess Lemmy thinks a child should always pay for the sins of their father, huh?
I knew Rodger Stone’s kid in high school. I never knew who his dad was at the time but his son was a fantastic guy. We aren’t our parents.
You do have a point that he can one day change his life and become a monk. but.
It’s not that child should pay for the sins of a father it’s more that he is: not a child - 18 is considered adult almost everywhere, not a victim by any metric imaginable, is from extremely priveleged background. Why would you or anyone should feel pity for him when he is doing great actually?
I said nothing about taking pity on him, and definitely didn’t take it anywhere near becoming a monk. I didn’t even claim Barron would be a good person if he deviated from his father’s bullshit, I’m just putting out food for thought that he may have the potential to deviate.
And yea, laws consider him an adult at 18, but the body and brain are not finished developing.
Any way, my edited point was more about immediately suppressing an opinion that isn’t even all that controversial or impossible to occur. It’s reddit behavior, I said something incongruent with the hivemind, therefor it must not be discussed. If it was misinformation or just a straight up lie, then I get it. But that isn’t so.
Like I mentioned in the post, considering his brothers it’s not likely he will make a change, any way. However, he does have a different mom than the others, and growing up with a much different type of publicity. I have two half-siblings (we share a mom, diff dads). Just because we’re related doesn’t mean we have the exact same beliefs, or comprehend our parents’ words in the same way. My siblings live for money, I live in a forest and don’t talk to them at all.
Lemmy is worse when it comes to opinions that challenge the general consensus, that’s for sure. It comes from being really small even in absolute numbers, and community being separated at least between two big-ish camps, and people from both of these camps holding more or less homogenous views.
I think a child, who is not a child, he’s an adult, who has already been accused of sexual and animal abuse, is likely to be even worse than his father.
Yeah try finding a decent source that runs that story. It’s unlikely to be true.
What decent sources are left in the U.S.? Every mainstream media outlet kowtows to Trump. Do you think any of them would risk running a negative story about his son while he’s threatening to throw him in prison?
Edit: always check the modlogs…
This ran before the elections. It was a trash story then.
Why are you bringing modlogs into this? Im banned because I refuse to blame all the Jews of the world for the crimes of the IDF.
What kind of fucking loser are you that you need to do this? Get off lemmy for a while and get that job you need to find.
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If you have something concrete to back that up, then I’m with you. I am not aware of this.
Nothing concrete, but like I said to the other person, no mainstream news organization would touch a story like that.
But then you gave me an article from one of the most left-wing confirmation-bias writers I’ve ever seen.
I will continue to search for it on my own.
One of the most horrific things I’ve seen is people on their death-beds, when they knew there was no more turning back and they had to say good-bye to everyone and everything they’d loved in this world.
