The online community is buzzing about Barron, the towering Trump who drew attention away from his father on election night.
People are stunned by the youngest Trump family member, who has completely transformed over the past four years—from a 14-year-old teenager to an 18-year-old “Trump tower.”
Standing at 6-foot-3, Donald Trump is one of the tallest U.S. presidents, surpassed by only two other commanders-in-chief: Lyndon Johnson at 6-foot-3.5 (36th president) and Abraham Lincoln at 6-foot-4 (16th president).
Given Trump’s impressive height, it’s no surprise his children are also very tall, with young Barron towering over the entire family.
Barron, Trump’s only child with Melania, was born on March 20, 2006, and is significantly younger than his siblings: Donald Jr. (46), Ivanka (42), Eric (40), and Tiffany (30), who is the shortest at 5-foot-8. By 2021, at just 15, Barron already stood taller than both his father and his mother, who is 5-foot-11.
“Barron is 6-foot-7, can you believe it? And he’s 15,” Trump said at the time. “Eric is short – he’s only 6-foot-6,” he joked, noting that Eric had been outgrown by his youngest sibling.
Now, years later, the proud father has praised his youngest son, who began his freshman year at New York University in 2024.
“He’s a very high aptitude child, but he’s no longer a child. He’s just passed into something beyond child-dom. He’s doing great,” Trump told the Daily Mail. “He was accepted to a lot of colleges…He’s a very smart guy, and he’ll be going to Stern, the business school, which is a great school at NYU.”
Steals the spotlight
On November 6, after casting his very first vote in support of his father, Barron joined his family on stage at the Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, observing as Trump received applause for his victory over the Democrats.
Typically camera-shy, Barron had not often appeared alongside his father during rallies across the country, so images of the now-grown man—who stands a head taller than his parents—were striking.
Voted for the first time – for his dad! #18yearsold #presidentialelection #proud pic.twitter.com/kTzMFNn1AS
— MELANIA TRUMP (@MELANIATRUMP) November 6, 2024
Making a joke about his son’s height, Trump credited his wife’s mother, Amalija Knavs, who passed away in January 2024. “They’re great people, great parents to all of us really. Great parents, but also to Barron. Boy did she take care of Barron,” Trump said on election night. “That’s how he got so tall – he only ate her food.”
The term “so tall” barely captures it. The young man has had a major growth spurt since his last public appearance, with estimates putting him around 6-foot-9.
One surprised netizen tweeted, “Barron is now so tall that the pictures of him look photoshopped,” while another wrote, “One way that it is definitely not 2016 all over again, is that Barron Trump is like 7 feet tall now.”
A third person commented, “Barron Trump may very well be just three normal height humans stacked on top of one another.”
My friend Barron Trump just voted for his first time today for his dad, Rightful President Trump.
God bless Barron and his entire family.
I was proud to also cast my first ever vote for Donald Trump.
GEN-Z STANDS WITH TRUMP! pic.twitter.com/T57TaGRj6m
— Bo Loudon (@BoLoudon) November 6, 2024
Meanwhile, some suggest he should shift his attention from business to basketball. “[Six-foot-nine] Barron Trump, son of Donald Trump, may just get a call from the Washington Wizards one of these days,” one person comments, alluding to a potential NBA draft by the team.
“God d*** Barron Trump is like 7ft tall, that boy gotta get off the stage and start HOOPING,” another user adds.
The idea of a basketball future for his son is not something Trump seems to oppose.
Speaking to the media on November 6, Trump recounted a conversation with Barron: “I said ‘you’re gonna be a basketball player.’ He said, well ‘I like soccer dad, actually.’”
“I thought…‘at your height…’ I like basketball better, but you can’t talk them in to everything.”
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