• Nougat
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    Everyone please take note:

    Barron Trump has been 100% unmentioned by anyone except when he was going to speak at some gathering, as an adult. Then, when he decided not to do that, everyone stopped talking about him entirely.

    That is how you do that. If an adult is getting invovled in politics, they’re fair game, regardless of who they’re related to. People who aren’t involved in politics, you leave them the fuck out of it.

    • @bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      Barron Trump has been 100% unmentioned especially by his father, who doesn’t want to be seen next to him because Barron is taller.

    • @aStonedSanta@lemm.ee
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      611 year ago

      Yuup. Agreed. The last time I recall hearing of presidential kids being bullied was Obamas kids. Interesting.

      • anon6789
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        561 year ago

        Chelsea Clinton got it pretty hard for years also.

        I had to look up if GWB had kids or not. Both daughters got involved in the campaign a bit, and now I recognize the one from various TV stuff too. I don’t remember much said about them at the time.

        The grown up Trump children get blasted, but they are all welllll into adulthood regardless of what their defenders say, and they are actively involved in all the political BS, so they are fair game for criticism.

        • mosiacmango
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          GWB daughters liked to party, so they got some airtime for being drunk and whatnot, but not political flack.

        • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】
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          The grown-up Trump kids were also working at the White House and appearing in media and in political meetings of all kinds, on behalf of the Trump administration. As soon as that happens, the familial relationship is irrelevant to the coverage and disclosure requirements. Any shield of “oh, not family members” is subsumed wholly by the public interest in open government and a free press.

          If family members fuck off out of politics and keep their mouths shut, they’d mostly get left alone, except for the most conspiratorial weirdos on the right.

      • @Wrench@lemmy.world
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        Palin’s kids were in the public crosshairs. But I think that had more to do with Palin’s awful hypocrisy on family values than anything else.

        • @ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world
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          And, Palin actually involved her daughter in things to help demonstrate how everything was okay. She put her daughter on display for her own political gain.

        • anon6789
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          Good call, I forgot about Bristol Palin. Like you said though, I feel it was more Sarah’s parenting vs what she promoted than it being about Bristol herself. Basically a throwing stones in glass houses kinda thing.

    • @Hubi@feddit.org
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      The only times I’ve seen Barron being mentioned is when people said that they hope he won’t turn out like his father.

    • @dariusj18@lemmy.world
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      171 year ago

      Ditto, one could also comment on the use of a kid as a political prop while not making it personal about the kid.

      • Nougat
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        81 year ago

        If that was a thing that was happening, yes, and the commentary would be about the candidate or the campaign.

    • @someguy3@lemmy.world
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      A reporter commented something like “wow he’s tall” and apparently Fox felt the need to call them out on that.

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        I was knee deep in all of the Trump BS back on reddit in the day and the only thing I remember people saying about Barron is that they felt sorry for him for having Trump as a father.

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          And that one meme from 2020 about Trump leaving the white house in all haste, without anyone seeing Barron.

          “Joe, are you my dad now?”

        • @EatATaco@lemm.ee
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          11 year ago

          And this literally happened yesterday. If it’s gone within a week, it would be about the same.

      • Doom
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        I disagree it felt like everyone left Barron and Melania even alone often. Once she started being more she got more flak and quickly faded away. Those two both avoided pretty much everything

        • @EatATaco@lemm.ee
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          01 year ago

          Remember, this happenes yesterday. If it’s gone in a few days, you might not remember it in 4 years either. I’ve provided the proof it did, in fact, happen. Which I remember. Time will tell.

          • Doom
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            Hardly. One person lambasted for making fun of Barron.

            If he was mocked so much find me the jokes. I can’t prove a negative that he wasn’t bullied.

            Out of my brain, Barron Trump had a meme of him wearing some shirt that said boss or something? and there was a meme about him secretly being liberal as hell. Maybe being suddenly tall was a joke for a minute too but none of those are attacks like you’re trying to depict.

            Also I’m wrong the shirt was the Expert

            https://i.insider.com/593df031c4adee7a008b50d6?width=1024&format=jpeg