Donald Trump’s 'nickname' for 20-year-old son Barron shared in new book

Most parents have weird or sweet or random little nicknames for them, right? It’s the kind of thing we’d be embarrassed if the whole world suddenly knew.

And that’s what has just happened to Barron Trump thanks to an early excerpt from a new book about his dad, the US president.

Yep, it turns out that Donald Trump shares some similarity to regular people in having a bit of a ‘nickname’ for his youngest son.

Written by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, the upcoming release Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, looks at key moments of his first year of his second term.

As the correspondents say the book gives a ‘first draft of the remarkable history we are all living through’, we learn a little more about the president’s relationship with his son.

Barron apparently called his dad following the shooting of Kirk. (Aaron Schwartz/CNP/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

The 20-year-old tends to somewhat stay out of the spotlight for the most part and we don’t tend to know much about him.

But a sneak peek of the new book in The New York Times lays out the time Barron called his dad, panicking, following the fatal shooting of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk.

The youngest son was 19 at the time and apparently was the first person to tell Trump about Kirk’s assassination.

It’s reported that Barron was concerned his dad could be targeted again and that he was taking a risk by carrying on with speaking in front of large crowds.

And during this phone call, Trump apparently used a pet name for his son as he tried to settle his worries.

“Calm down, honey, calm down,” the president said, according to Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump.

Yep, it’s said he calls his son ‘honey’, or at least according to this book and in moments of heightened worry.

Barron is the youngest of the Trump brood. (ANGELA WEISS / AFP via Getty Images)

The authors have spoken a lot about the Trump administration being very good at keeping secrets.

“There’s a reason that there hasn’t been a ton of inside-the-room reporting since last year,” Swan said of it, per The Guardian.

“It’s because it’s really f**king hard. This is a tiny group of people running the government, and there’s this canard that Trump puts out that, ‘I’m the most transparent president ever.’ It’s complete nonsense.

“They’re actually … incredibly good at keeping secrets.”

The authors say is health is an example of how the administration is ‘very good at keeping secrets’ as they describe there being the ‘tiniest inner circle’.