Barron Trump, the youngest of the former president’s children, will make his political debut this summer as a delegate to the Republican National Convention.
His name appears on a list of Florida delegates, along with other Trump family members, to the GOP convention in Milwaukee in July. The list, which was posted on Wednesday, also includes Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr., and his fiancée Kimberly Guilfoyle, as well as Tiffany Trump and her husband, Michael Boulos.
“Barron is very interested in our nation’s political process,” according to a source acquainted with the pick.
The former president’s older children have played important roles in his political career as well as in business management. However, he and former first lady Melania Trump have kept Barron, who turned 18 in March, out of the spotlight—until now.
According to Julian Zelizer, a political history professor at Princeton University, while there are significant examples of political family dynasties, such as the Bush and Kennedy clans, those families began in politics rather than commerce, unlike the Trumps.
“The Trump family might be trying to position themselves as the next dynasty,” Zelizer said, noting Eric and Don Jr.’s political activity and interests.
According to Zelizer, Barron’s appointment as a delegate is “symbolic.” However, he believes it indicates that the Trump family plans to remain in politics and strengthen their political home base in Florida, where the father frequently has meetings at Mar-a-Lago.
“It signals that they have their eye on the future and that this is not just a one-shot deal,” Zelizer stated. Will there be more Trumps in politics? “This only adds to the speculation.”
Barron Trump has mainly remained out of the public spotlight until recently, when Judge Juan Merchan, who is supervising Trump’s hush money payment trial in New York, stated that the court will not meet on May 17 to allow Trump to attend his son’s high school graduation ceremony.
According to radio station KFGO, the former president will also make the keynote presentation for the Minnesota Republican Party’s annual Lincoln Reagan banquet on that day.
