President-elect Donald Trump’s youngest son Barron has become TikTok famous without even having a known account on the social media platform.
Many TikTok users have remixed a 2010 clip of Barron, then four years old, saying in a Slovenian accent: ‘I like my suitcase’ and ‘I have to go to school now?’
The video in which Barron holds a briefcase was recently shared and includes the president-elect and his wife Melania. The mother replies to her son’s question with, ‘Yes, first you will have lunch and then you’ll go to school.’ Her husband says, ‘You can do reading, writing and arithmetic.’
It had an interview with American TV and radio host Larry King in which the parents said Barron had a Slovenian accent because he spent most of his time with Melania.
Barron, 18 years old and 6-foot-7, is now a student at New York University’s Stern School of Business.
A TikTok user wrote that ‘everyone at NYU is repeating this through the halls’ on a video on the platform that garnered more than 6million views, Forbes reported.
The clip has since taken on a life on its own, with a club remix of Barron’s ‘I like my suitcase’ line used in about 26,000 TikTok users’ videos. The trend has in some cases involved users zipping themselves inside luggage.
The ‘I like my suitcase’ remix has further been used as the audio backdrop for TikTok clips of the president-elect doing his ‘YMCA’ dance at his 2024 campaign rallies.
Barron, like his mom, kept a low profile throughout his father’s successful presidential bid. But the teenager has been credited with helping his dad win much of the young male vote. Barron reportedly advised his dad to do an interview over the summer with live streamer and internet personality Adin Ross, who has about 6.9million followers.
While Barron has refrained from public accounts on social media, another teen in the Trump family is also gaining fame as Trump prepares to return to the White House.
The president-elect’s eldest grandchild, Kai Trump, 17, the daughter of Donald Trump Jr, filmed behind the scenes on Election Day and on Sunday posted a video on TikTok of herself re-enacting Trump’s signature dance.
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