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President Donald Trump said his youngest son, 19-year-old Baron, was “very hurt” by the murder of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk.
“When he saw this, he was very hurtful, but I was like everyone,” Trump said on September 12th.
Kirk, 31, a 31-year-old Trump’s alliance with young Republican voters and shaking Republican voters, was fatally shot on September 10 in collaboration with a university student at Utah Valley University.
Trump recalled Baron to meet the conservative activists who co-founded the student organization Turning Point USA.
“Baron came to me and he said, ‘Dad, I want to meet someone you know – Charlie Kirk,'” Trump said. “I thought he was going to say it, I want to meet King Charles or something.”
Trump said he set up a luncheon for the duo.
“He’s back. He said, ‘That guy is amazing, daddy,'” Trump said. “Charlie casts spells on the kids, and a lot of them, and a very diverse black person, white. So everyone is young women and boys, and I’ve never seen anything like that.”
After completing his freshman year at Stern Business School at New York University in Manhattan, Baron has now moved to the White House and has registered with NYU’s Washington, DC, campus and the New York Post, where people have reported. The White House declined to comment on the subject.
The president and first lady, Melania Trump, believes Baron helped Donald Trump connect with the young voters who helped him reclaim the White House.
Trump said his youngest son spoke with popular, brother-centric podcasters like Joe Logan and Addin Ross, and encouraged him to speak to him to raise his digital presence on social media platforms such as Tiktok.
“He was very vocal. He brought so many young people,” Melania Trump told Fox & Friends a month after Trump’s victory. “He knows his generation because the younger generations don’t sit in front of the TV anymore.”
Earlier this year, American Republican Will Donahue called Baron Trump the “future of the conservative movement.”
Contributions: Kinsey Crowley and Jennifer Sangalang, USA Today Network
Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy is a White House correspondent for USA Today. x You can follow her at @swapnavenugopal
