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As former President\u00a0Donald Trump<\/strong>\u00a0continues to shape policy from the Oval Office during his second term, his youngest son,\u00a0Barron Trump<\/strong>, is quietly carving his own path in New York City. Currently enrolled at\u00a0New York University\u2019s Stern School of Business<\/strong>, the 19-year-old is focused on his studies\u2014yet social media has recently thrust him into a national debate.<\/p>\n Following Trump\u2019s controversial\u00a0military strikes on three nuclear sites in Iran<\/strong>\u00a0on June 22, criticism has flared\u2014not just over the constitutionality of the attacks but also over the Trump family\u2019s longstanding absence from military service.<\/p>\n Though Trump and his sons,\u00a0Donald Jr.<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Eric<\/strong>, have often praised the U.S. military,\u00a0none of them have served<\/strong>. Trump himself received a draft deferment during the Vietnam War era due to reported\u00a0heel spurs<\/strong>, a diagnosis that has been met with skepticism over the years. According to The New York Times, Trump stated the condition \u201chealed over time\u201d without surgery or long-term treatment.<\/p>\n His children, including Barron, have followed in those non-military footsteps. Now, with the U.S. inching closer to conflict with Iran, that decision is under intense public scrutiny.<\/p>\n Trump\u2019s decision to authorize airstrikes in Iran has sparked outrage from critics and a firestorm across social platforms. Some users argue that if Trump is willing to start a war, his own family should not be exempt from its consequences.<\/p>\n \u201cDon\u2019t panic, MAGA; not a single Trump \u2018male\u2019 will be anywhere near the fighting,\u201d one post on X (formerly Twitter) read. \u201cBarron already has developed preemptive fake bone spurs.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u201cShould Barron be deployed first? Before anyone else\u2019s child is sent to Iran, he should be in boot camp,\u201d another user wrote, referencing the constitutional debate over Trump\u2019s military actions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Others proposed a more systemic solution:<\/p>\n \u201cIt should be mandatory that any sitting President who starts a war must have their sons serve in combat,\u201d one user stated. \u201cBarron should not be living in NYC like a normal college student if his father is sending others to fight.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n While Barron\u2019s military future is only speculative, his\u00a0academic journey<\/strong>\u00a0recently made headlines after rumors suggested he had been\u00a0rejected by top universities<\/strong>, including\u00a0Harvard, Stanford, and Columbia<\/strong>. These claims were widely circulated online but lacked credible sourcing.<\/p>\n The fact-checking outlet\u00a0Snopes<\/strong>\u00a0investigated the speculation and found\u00a0no verifiable evidence<\/strong>\u00a0that Barron had even applied to those institutions.<\/p>\n Through her office,\u00a0First Lady Melania Trump<\/strong>\u00a0issued a direct response:<\/p>\n \u201cBarron did not apply to Harvard, and any assertion that he, or anyone on his behalf, applied is completely false,\u201d said spokesperson Nick Clemens.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Barron ultimately enrolled at NYU, where he remains largely out of the public eye.<\/p>\n Interestingly, Harvard\u2014one of the schools Barron was rumored to have applied to\u2014has been a recent\u00a0target of criticism<\/strong>\u00a0from Donald Trump. Amid the\u00a0Israel-Hamas campus protests<\/strong>, Trump accused the Ivy League school of\u00a0failing to protect Jewish students<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0prioritizing international enrollment<\/strong>\u00a0over domestic interests.<\/p>\n That rhetoric has fueled several lawsuits and deepened Trump\u2019s ongoing rift with elite academic institutions.<\/p>\n With military tensions rising and the Trump family once again at the center of public scrutiny, the question remains:\u00a0Should children of U.S. presidents be required to serve if war is declared?<\/strong><\/p>\n It\u2019s a debate that strikes at the heart of fairness, privilege, and public responsibility.<\/p>\n What do you think? Should military service be mandatory for political leaders\u2019 families? Share your thoughts in the comments and on social media.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Barron Trump Faces Unexpected Public Pressure to Enlist After Father\u2019s Iran Strikes As former President\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0continues to shape policy from the Oval Office during his second term, his … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29617,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29615\/revisions\/29617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}A Family with No Military History<\/h2>\n
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