Barron Trump

“Here ve go again” says Melania Trump to the camera at the start of the new trailer for MELANIA – a feature documentary on the First Lady from Jeff Bezos’s Amazon Studios. This House of Cards-style breaking of the fourth wall seems to promise a certain intrigue in the movie to come.  The trailer, which is soundtracked an Amadeus-esque orchestral score, has a few eyebrow-raising moments, like when the First Lady interrupts her husband’s rehearsal for a speech. “My proudest legacy will be that of peacemaker” says Trump. “Peacemaker and unifier,” she corrects him. She also teases Trump (who she calls “Mr. President”) about not having watched one of his broadcasts. “Ya, I will watch it on the news.

Every morning, a swarm of black SUVs deliver a 6’ 7” freshman to classes at NYU's Stern School of Business. The journey from Trump Tower takes about 20 minutes, which is enough time for 19-year-old Barron Trump to check his cryptocurrency wallets before settling into the back row of a lecture hall, flanked by Secret Service agents in hoodies and jeans, attempting (and failing) to blend in with students. The scene captures a peculiar tension in the youngest Trump's coming of age: between assimilating and standing out. While his classmates stress over student loans, unpaid internships and how to make their weekly grocery budget go further, Barron has assembled a digital fortune independently of his parents.

There’s something admirable about Melania Trump’s commitment to doing absolutely nothing. While America obsesses over her husband’s latest provocations, the First Lady has opted for absence – and turned it into a pretty lucrative enterprise. Consider this month’s rare emergence from her self-imposed exile. As rumors swirled that Donald’s vendetta against Harvard stemmed from the university rejecting their son Barron, Melania was finally compelled to issue a public statement. The denial was characteristically terse: Barron never applied to Harvard, and all such assertions are “completely false.

“So Charlie Kirk tweeted about it and Don Jr. shared it, so I think I’m OK,” one presidential nominee told me earlier this year. The important thing, as they say in the City of Brotherly Love, is the implication. The implication here being that he was among the chosen ones, counted upon, trusted, a five-star A-list recruit. Of course Matt Gaetz, the former Florida congressman, also had the backing of the President’s eldest son and Kirk, who founded Turning Point USA. Kirk spent a day urging a potential alternative for the role of Trump’s attorney general to take the job, only to follow up with: “Can we count on you for Matt?” But Gaetz wasn’t able to cross the line. He is now a host on One America News.

After offering explanations for why TikTok presents a danger to US security, Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas admitted Friday that his college-aged daughter uses the controversial app.At a “signature event” held by the Economic Club at the capital’s Marriott Marquis Hotel, the club’s president, David Rubenstein, sat for a lengthy conversation with the secretary. On immigration, Rubenstein pressed him, asking about asylum policy, increasing encounters and whether having a physical barrier would have helped curb illegal crossings. This reporter asked Mayorkas if the administration was preparing for any policy changes given they recently hired two new senior-level officials.