Melania Trump Jumps To Son Barron’s Rescue - Here's Why She Did It!

Donald and Melania Trump’s teenager Barron’s name is sometimes brought into political debates by virtue of being the president’s son. But Melania will not take it lying down when her son is being attacked.

In December 2019, Melania called out a constitutional law expert who referenced Barron to explain the limits of Trump’s powers as president, as per Express.co.uk.

Pamela S. Karlan was brought in during Trump's impeachment hearings on Capitol Hill, where she mentioned Barron while illustrating a difference between the president and a king. “The Constitution says there can be no titles of nobility, so while the President can name his son Barron, he can’t make him a baron,” she said.

The First Lady immediately took to Twitter to express her anger, and wrote: “A minor child deserves privacy and should be kept out of politics.

“Pamela Karlan, you should be ashamed of your very angry and obviously biased public pandering and using a child to do it.”

Karlan later apologised for her comment.

She said: “I want to apologise for what I said earlier about the President’s son, it was wrong of me to do that.

“I wish the President would apologise, obviously, for the things that he has said and done, but I do regret having said that,” she further added.

Ever since Trump assumed office in 2017, Barron has been at the receiving end of a lot of unwarranted criticism from the general public as well as media houses.

In 2017, the Daily Caller, a conservative publication, criticised Barron for his choice of clothing, accusing the then 11-year-old of not "dressing like he is in the White House."

The publication argued that Barron was letting his family down by dressing casually.

The same year, Katie Rich, a Saturday Night Live writer who made fun of Barron, tweeting “Barron will be this country’s first homeschool [sic] shooter” was suspended from the programme. The writer later tweeted out an apology.

Besides Melania, former First Daughter Chelsea Clinton has defended Barron’s right to privacy, urging the media to let Barron enjoy the “private childhood he deserves”.

Chelsea was only 12 when her father Bill Clinton was elected as president.

“I do take it very personally when people attack Sasha and Malia Obama, and even Barron Trump," Chelsea said while on The Graham Norton Show in November 2019. “And I just find it abhorrent that people who are arguably on the same side of the political spectrum as I am think it's OK to make whatever point they’re trying to make about his father through making fun of his kid."