NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s youngest son Barron Trump began his freshman year of college at New York University this week, his father said Wednesday.
Trump revealed the decision in a video interview with the Daily Mail, confirming months of rumors that his son would attend the university’s Stern School of Business, one of the nation’s top business schools.
“He’s a very capable kid, but he’s not a kid anymore,” Trump said. “He’s just moved on to something beyond childishness. He’s fine.”
Barron Trump, 18, graduated in May from Oxbridge Academy, an exclusive private school near his father’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida. As the first student at NYU, he attends classes a few miles from his childhood home in Trump Tower, where his father lives.
It was not immediately clear if he lives on campus or at home. An NYU spokeswoman did not respond to an emailed inquiry about enrollment.
The Stern campus is located in a lively area in midtown Manhattan, across the street from the famous Washington Square Park. Pro-Palestinian protesters briefly occupied the business school’s square last spring before police arrived and made arrests. Due to the possibility of renewed protests, additional security measures have been introduced at the start of the fall semester.
Three of Trump’s four children – Ivanka Trump, Tiffany Trump and Donald Trump Jr. – graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, which the former president also attended. Trump, who attended the university’s Wharton School of Business, said his youngest son considered the program but decided against it.
“I went to Wharton, and it was definitely one we considered. We didn’t,” Trump told the Daily Mail. “We went to Stern.”
