Barron snubbed?? The Trump family was surprisingly quiet when Barron Trump turned 19. Is this proof that Melania's taking a step back from her son's life?
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00:00Barron snubbed? The Trump family was surprisingly quiet when Barron turned 19.
00:05Is this proof that Melania's taking a step back from her son's life?
00:09As children, we have them till they are like 18, 19 years old."
00:15Almost nobody took the time to give the teenager a shout-out online,
00:19and we mean nobody. Melania and Donald were silent. His siblings, Donald Jr.,
00:24Eric, and Tiffany let the occasion pass without mention, which was extra surprising since
00:29Tiffany was previously believed to be Barron's closest sibling. In fact,
00:33the only person who did step to the plate for Barron's big day was Ivanka.
00:37Taking to her Instagram stories, Ivanka uploaded a family photo with her husband,
00:42Jared Kushner, and their daughter, Arabella, standing alongside Barron as everyone sported
00:47formal wear. She added text that said,
00:49"'Happy birthday, Barron! Love you!'
00:51Why the deafening silence from everyone else? Barron has a considerable age gap with his
00:56half-siblings but has always seemed to have solid relationships with his sisters.
01:00Tiffany, for example, has usually been sure to shout him out on other birthdays."
01:05In March 2019, when Barron entered his teenage years,
01:08she took to Instagram to share a throwback snap of the two at the 2016
01:12RNC, writing in the caption,
01:14"'Happy birthday, B!'
01:15The following year, Tiffany once again punctually posted a birthday wish for her little brother,
01:20although by that point he wasn't so little anymore. As Tiffany referenced when she wrote,
01:25"'Happy 14th birthday to the best little brother I could ever ask for!'
01:29It makes you wonder if there's been some souring of the sibling dynamic
01:32since Tiffany left her big little bro high and dry for his 2025 celebrations.
01:37Or maybe she was just too busy. Her most recent post came just before Barron's birthday and
01:42showed her enjoying the mountain views with her husband. Tiffany's also pregnant with her first
01:47child, which points to another stark difference between Barron and his half-siblings. He's in
01:51college, while they're all married with kids — or in Don Jr.'s case, previously married.
01:57The point is, they're all at polar opposite points in their lives, and it's possible that
02:00they just don't have all that much in common with the gentle giant. As for his mom giving
02:05him the cold shoulder, well, that's another surprise. Melania has posted birthday wishes
02:10online in the past, though the posts have been admittedly subdued. The first lady uploaded snaps
02:15of birthday balloons to celebrate her son turning 13 in 2019 and again when he turned 15. As Barron
02:21entered his last year as a teen, it could be that Melania felt it was time to take a step back from
02:26her son's life. Just this past January, Melania told Fox News that kids, well, they grow up,
02:31and at some point you have to let them do that.
02:33We teach them, we guide them.
02:36She added that there comes a time in a child's life when you have to step back and stop being
02:40a helicopter parent.
02:41And then we give them the wings to fly, and I always respect Barron's yes and no,
02:47and what he likes to do, where he would like to be.
02:50Meanwhile, his dad was actually given a gift-wrapped opportunity to show Barron
02:54some birthday love during an interview with Fox News' Laura Ingram. And while he did mention
02:58some of his strengths, he mainly pivoted to talk about all his children.
03:02It's Barron's birthday on Thursday.
03:05Yes. I think business, and I think he could probably, you know, if you look at my kids,
03:10all my kids, they're sort of, they've been very good, they've been, they're very smart.
03:13Prior to his 19th birthday, Ivanka actually hasn't usually given public birthday wishes
03:18to her little brother. She's all about her immediate family these days. So it's kind
03:22of weird that out of everyone who typically steps up to wish Barron a happy birthday,
03:26she's the only one who did it this year.