President Donald Trump’s youngest son has reentered the public eye for his father’s big night.
Barron Trump, 19, joined the rest of the president’s children ahead of the State of the Union address on Tuesday evening.
The New York University student remains an elusive figure. He has no social media presence, reportedly kept to himself during his freshman year, and is reportedly single.
Still, the youngest—but tallest—Trump posed alongside his siblings at the Capitol, sporting a royal blue tie.
Barron did not extend the same courtesy to his mother, First Lady Melania Trump, for the premiere of her widely-criticized documentary, Melania, at the Kennedy Center last month, despite appearing on the film’s cast list.
Regardless, the two reportedly share a close bond. Indeed, the youngest Trump is reportedly very family-oriented, especially as he lives at the White House while attending NYU’s Washington, D.C. campus.
Barron made headlines earlier this month after a Russian man was convicted of assaulting his then-girlfriend in London, with Barron emerging as a key witness.
Just two days before Trump’s second inauguration, Barron made a panicked call to London police, where he said he witnessed the attack over a video call.
The NYU student told a City of London Police operator that “a girl” he knew was “getting beat up.”
In an email to investigators in May 2025, Barron said a “shirtless man with darkish hair”—later identified as Matvei Rumiantsev, 22—answered a video call from the woman’s phone for “maybe one second.”
He said the view then switched to the woman “getting hit while crying” during a five- to seven-second window. Rumiantsev admitted in evidence that he was “jealous to some extent” of Barron and complained that she was “frankly leading [Barron] on.”
Weeks before Barron’s hero moment became public, the first son was under fire after being linked to a close associate of misogynist internet influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate, who face human trafficking charges brought by multiple women in multiple countries. The Tates deny any wrongdoing.
The Tate brothers were indicted in Romania on charges that include human trafficking, rape, and forming an organized criminal group to sexually exploit women. Separately, in the U.K., the brothers face a series of criminal charges, including rape and human trafficking. Both brothers deny the accusations.
Last year, The New York Times reported that Barron admired divisive manosphere figure Andrew Tate, 39, and spoke with him over Zoom, according to their mutual friend Justin Waller. They reportedly discussed their shared belief that Romanian prosecutors were charging the brothers in an effort to silence them.
