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Barron Trump is ditching “child-dom” and starting college at New York University, his father said in an interview with The Daily Mail this week.
“He’s a very smart guy, and he’ll be going to Stern Business School, which is a great school at NYU,” former President Donald Trump said in the interview published Wednesday. “He’s a very high-aptitude child, but he’s no longer a child. He’s just passed into something beyond child-dom.”
The Republican presidential nominee said his son had considered attending the prestigious University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, from which Trump and three of his other children graduated, but ultimately decided on the Manhattan school.
“It’s a very high-quality place,” Trump said of NYU, adding: “We liked NYU. I’ve known NYU for a long time.”
It makes sense that the Trumps would be familiar with NYU. After all, the Trump Organization is based in New York City, and Trump Tower — where Barron Trump spent much of his childhood — is only a few miles north of the university. It’s also in the same city where the scandal-plagued Trump University was headquartered before it shut down in 2010. And NYU’s Stern school is home to the research professor who was paid almost $900,000 to testify for the defense in Trump’s civil fraud trial.
Despite his deep connections to New York City, Trump trashed the city in 2019, calling it “dirty” and “unsafe.” His wife — the former first lady and Barron Trump’s mother, Melania Trump — apparently has a rosier outlook, calling New York City “a colorful canvas where dreams come alive” in a post on X last week.
Barron Trump, 18, was photographed on NYU’s campus Wednesday. He graduated in May from Oxbridge Academy, an exclusive private school near Mar-a-Lago in Florida.