Barron Trump has reportedly moved into the White House with his parents as he switches his college studies to New York University’s D.C. campus.
The 6-foot-9-inch teenager was nowhere to be seen at NYU’s Stern School of Business in Manhattan last week, despite being due to return to his studies, People first reported.
Now, after spending his freshman year in New York City, the New York Post reports that President Donald Trump’s youngest son is switching to NYU’s D.C. Academic Centre. The report says the 19-year-old is living at the White House as he attends classes.
Barron has stayed away from the spotlight over the summer break; he reportedly spent his time plotting his future business plans while spending time with his family and traveling between their properties. “Barron has been actively working on his own financial interests and has spent time with others who he is involved with in that area,” a social source told People.
The Daily Beast has contacted the White House, Melania Trump’s office, and NYU for comment.
The D.C. campus accommodates up to 120 students, with the university claiming it enables “concentrated study and research” in politics, journalism, environmental studies, history, economics and public policy.
Student life at the D.C. campus is “enhanced by access to Washington’s distinctive intellectual, political, and cultural life,” according to the NYU website. It describes itself as a “world-class faculty.”
It also offers internships with “nonprofits, government agencies and corporations” based in Washington. “The courses are taught by visiting NYU faculty as well as by faculty recruited from other universities and intellectual and cultural institutions.”
A switch to the D.C. campus would match People‘s report from last week, which quoted a campus security officer saying, “From what I was told, he’s doing a semester at another NYU campus.”
Like his mother, Barron is an elusive figure; he has no social media presence. He was said to have kept to himself during his freshman year, is said to be single, and has a reputation as an avid video game player. The president of the NYC College Republicans told Vanity Fair he was “an oddity on campus.”
“He goes to class, he goes home,” Kaya Walker added. Walker later resigned from her position after backlash surrounding her comments about Barron.
Vanity Fair also reported a motorcade of black SUVs transported Barron on the 20-minute trip from Trump Tower, where he was living, to NYU’s Washington Square campus.
Barron moving back with mom and dad would also provide the first lady with hands-on assistance in her AI ventures.
During the meeting of an White House Task Force on AI Education last week, Education Secretary Linda McMahon said to Melania “...I bet that Barron is helping you with a little bit of this as well and maybe charging you a little bit with that. I would think so.” The first lady nodded.
Melania told Fox News last year Barron wanted to study in NYC, noting, “It was his decision to come here, that he wants to be in New York and study in New York and live in his home, and I respect that.”
Donald Trump has previously predicted that his teenage son may take a more modern career path.
The president told Laura Ingraham in a March Fox News interview that his youngest son is a tech enthusiast.
“Is Barron’s aptitude in your view business or politics?” Ingraham asked of Trump’s youngest son.
“Maybe technology,” the president said, adding, “He can look at a computer... I turn off his laptop, I said, ‘Oh good,’ and I go back about five minutes later, he’s got his laptop, I say, ‘How do you do that?’”
Trump added that the teen has an “unbelievable aptitude in technology.”
Barron has also helped his father get his head around cryptocurrency, ahead of the Trump family venture World Liberty Financial.
Forbes calculated in June that after tax, Barron could have made $25 million from the crypto scheme.
