Donald Trump’s youngest son has enrolled at New York University

NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s youngest son, Barron Trump, started his freshman yr of school this week at New York College, his father mentioned Wednesday.

Trump revealed the choice in a video interview with the Each day Mail, confirming months of rumors that his son would attend the college’s Stern College of Enterprise, which ranks among the many nation’s prime enterprise colleges.

“He’s a really excessive aptitude little one, however he’s now not a toddler,” Trump mentioned. “He’s simply handed into one thing past child-dom. He’s doing nice.”

Barron Trump, 18, graduated in Might from Oxbridge Academy, an unique personal college close to his father’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida. As a freshman at NYU, he’ll attend courses a couple of miles away from his childhood residence in Trump Tower, the place his father retains a residence.

It wasn’t instantly clear if he would dwell on campus or at residence. A spokesperson for NYU didn’t reply to an emailed inquiry concerning the enrollment.

The Stern campus is positioned in a bustling space of downtown Manhattan, throughout the road from the famed Washington Sq. Park. The enterprise college’s plaza was briefly occupied final spring by pro-Palestinian protesters earlier than police got here in and made arrests. Dealing with the opportunity of renewed protests, the college has applied extra safety measures for the beginning of the autumn semester.

Three of Trump’s 4 kids — Ivanka Trump, Tiffany Trump, and Donald Trump Jr. — graduated from the College of Pennsylvania, which the previous president additionally attended. Trump, who attended the college’s Wharton enterprise college, mentioned his youngest son thought-about this system however determined towards it.

“I went to Wharton, and that was actually one which we have been contemplating. We didn’t do this,” Trump instructed the Each day Mail. “We went to Stern.”