Donald Trump’s description of son Barron has people making sad realisation
Donald Trump forgot to name his youngest son, Barron, while heaping praise on him at a recent event, and it's left a lot of people confused.
The US leader is a proud father of five - sharing Ivanka, Eric and Donald Jr with his first wife Ivana, as well as welcoming Tiffany with Marla Maples and his youngest child, Barron Trump, with current wife, Melania Trump.
But when it came to praising his wife and youngest child at a recent White House event, the 80-year-old went about it in a rather strange way.
In comments made last month, during an East Room ceremony, the POTUS spoke highly of Melania, saying: "Most importantly, and most importantly to her, she's done an incredible job as First Lady."
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Going on to talk about the Slovenian-born former model's role as a mother to their child, he continued: "She's an incredible mom."
Trump then went on to reference the 20-year-old's astonishing 6'9" stature, adding: "She has a little boy who's quite tall. He's a little boy to us, but he's quite tall, right?
"And his great parent," he continued, looking to Melania again. "She takes great care of him, thank you."
The comments are pretty tame in the world of Donald Trump remarks, but it didn't stop his critics from latching onto the fact that he didn't once mention his son by name during the moment.
"The distancing is quite strange. Imagine how his son must feel, hearing this," one X user wrote, speculating whether or not Barron would be hurt by the comments, while a second joked: "Nothing screams proud dad on Father’s Day like can’t recall your son’s name."
However, not everyone was critical of the moment, with several of the president's supporters quickly rushing to his defence.
"He’s literally making a joke. You’ve got to be kidding," penned one more sympathetic response, while another user said the president's critics were suffering from 'TDS' [Trump Derangement Syndrome].
The comments regarding his youngest son aren't the only baffling move Trump has made when discussing his fatherhood, with the president recently praising an unknown woman in a deleted Father's Day post on Truth Social.
Shared on his account the day before Father's Day, the leader shared a post honouring a 'great daughter' alongside the photo of a woman with no relation to him.
Although the post was swiftly removed, it didn't take long for internet sleuths to work out the identity of the mystery woman, with The Mirror's political editor Mikey Smith deducing that she was most likely Margo Catsimatidis, wife of billionaire Trump supporter John Catsimatidis.
"I'm pretty sure the woman is Margo Catsimatidis, and I think the picture was taken at Camp David (...where Trump is this weekend.), probably during the Clinton Administration," he wrote on X.
Topics: Barron Trump, Donald Trump, US News
Brenna Cooper