Former President Donald Trump’s youngest son, Barron Trump, started his freshman year at New York University this week, his father said Wednesday.
NEW YORK — Former President Donald Trump’s youngest son, Barron Trump, started his freshman year at New York University this week, his father said Wednesday.
Trump announced the decision in a video interview with the Daily Mail, confirming rumors that his son would attend the university’s Stern School of Business, one of the country’s top business schools.
“He’s a child of very high potential, but he’s not a child anymore,” Trump said. “He’s just moved on to something beyond being a child. He’s doing great.”
Barron Trump, 18, graduated in May from Oxbridge Academy, an exclusive private school near his father’s home in Mar-a-Lago, Florida. As a freshman at NYU, he will attend classes a few miles from his childhood home in Trump Tower, where his father still lives.
It was not immediately clear whether he would live on campus or at home. An NYU spokesperson did not respond to an emailed inquiry about the enrollment.
The Stern campus is located in a vibrant area of downtown Manhattan, across the street from the famous Washington Square Park. The business school’s plaza was briefly occupied last spring by pro-Palestinian protesters before police entered and made arrests. With the possibility of renewed protests in mind, the university has implemented additional security measures for the start of the fall semester.
Three of Trump’s four children — Ivanka Trump, Tiffany Trump and Donald Trump Jr. — graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, where the former president also studied. Trump, who attended the university’s Wharton Business School, said his youngest son considered the program but decided against it.
“I went to Wharton, and that was definitely one we considered. We didn’t,” Trump told the Daily Mail. “We went to Stern.”