So now we can stop wondering

Some never wondered.  They always assumed Barron was just another fucking Trump.

Andrew Tate found modest fame as a professional kickboxer in the 2010s, but as he tells it, he didn’t start making real money until he and his brother went into pornography.

[...]

[Tate] nurtured relationships with Donald Trump Jr. and his younger brother Barron, who recognized the role that young male voters could play in their father’s return to power.

Barron, now 19, admired Andrew, and spoke with him over Zoom last year, according to Justin Waller, a mutual friend who was on the call. During the call, they discussed their shared belief that the Romanian criminal case was an effort to silence the Tates, he said.

  NYT

 "I just heard about that"..."I don't know what it is she's doing."  But I'm here to announce it.  Brilliant.

Fuck TikTok

 New owner

UPDATE 03:56 pm:  That clinches it.

Another (unreliable) Trump

Former president Donald Trump promoted his family’s new cryptocurrency project Monday during a disorganized livestream short on details and even shorter on actual mentions of cryptocurrency, but the Trump clan’s supposed top “DeFi visionary” ghosted on the affair.

Trump’s youngest son Barron, 18, was nowhere to be found when it came time for him to speak, some two hours into the meandering promotional for World Liberty Financial, which even Trump’s crypto sector allies reportedly think is a stupid idea.

[...]

“Damned teenagers,” joked Trump’s eldest child, 46-year-old Donald Jr., who sat in on the livestream along with his 40-year-old brother, Eric.

[...]

Among the Trump family members listed on the company’s team are Don Jr. and Eric, both “Web3 Ambassadors,” while their father is “Chief Crypto Advocate.” The most revered title of “DeFi Visionary” is reserved for Barron.

  Daily Beast

Oh sure. If the kid had any vision, he'd change his name and move overseas.

Also, Don Sr is called "Chief Crypto Advocate". What that means is he hawks the scheme. He certainly doesn't know how cryptocurrency works, and I'm skeptical any of his spawn do either.

According to Bloomberg, the dealmaker behind the crypto project is Chase Herro—a man who once described himself as “the dirtbag of the internet.”

How fitting.

“You can literally sell s--t in a can, wrapped in p--s, covered in human skin, for a billion dollars if the story’s right, because people will buy it,” Herro said of the crypto space in one 2018 video.

Yes. Trump has been doing it all his life.

While Barron, the family “visionary,” was nowhere to be found on the launch livestream, a rambling Donald Trump—who compared understanding cryptocurrency to his “beautiful granddaughter” Arabella learning Chinese from a nanny—nevertheless found time to praise his son’s supposed genius.

“Barron knows so much about this, Barron’s a young guy, but he knows,” said the proud father. “He talks about his wallet, he’s got four wallets or something, and I’ll say ‘what is a wallet?’” (A cryptocurrency wallet is a device or program that stores keys that allow users to access their coins and perform transactions, he surely explains.)

Maybe. At least he has four.  That must mean something.

“Crypto is one of those things we have to do,” Trump said during the livestream. “Whether we like it or not, I have to do it.”

Whaaaaat?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

They all have Covid

“Barron Trump, he had the corona-19,” the president told a crowd at a campaign rally in Des Moines, Iowa, referring to the novel coronavirus. “He had the China virus, right? And he had it for such a short period of time. I don’t even think he knew he had it because they’re young and their immune systems are strong and they fight it off 99.9 percent. And Barron is beautiful, and he’s free, free.”

  The Hill

Ding. Dong.

(Does he always refer to his son by his full name? Not my son, not Barron?)

“It happens. People have it, and it goes. Get the kids back to school. We’ve got to get them back to school,” the president told the crowd.

The private school Barron attends in the Washington, D.C., area, St. Andrew's Episcopal School, has conducted all-virtual classes thus far this school year.

Also Trump in Iowa...

Brilliant.

Oh, the humanity!

No doubt you've heard about the Republican pearl-clutching - or at least Melania's complaint - about Professor Karlan's faux pas in yesterday's hearing (for which she apologized). I've avoided discussing it, because, like Adam Schiff's parody of Trump's "perfect" phone call, it was an avoidable error, or slip in judgment, but not worthy of debate. Here, however, is a small bit of sensible nonsense on the subject:

At last they have gone and done it. They have crossed that last frontier of decency. They have insinuated the unbearable — nay, the unthinkable: that Barron Trump is not a baron.

“While the president can name his son Barron, he can’t make him a baron,” said Professor Pamela Karlan at the House Judiciary Committee’s impeachment hearing. I am chagrined to retype the words, so obviously loathsome are they. To state that a child is not a baronet — this is the worst kind of speech

[...]

People said all kinds of things about the Obama children, but they never stooped to this wordplay. They criticized their outfits. They criticized their facial expressions. They never, not even once, used name-based wordplay to insinuate that they were not titled gentry. They always knew they had better not dare. That was the kind of respect the Obama children were always shown.

[...]

The point is, there are some outrages that presidents themselves must bear, but we always hope to spare the presidential children. They are just children, after all. They did not ask for this. This is an area in which the Trump administration has always stood firm. It has done many unsavory things to children — separated them from their parents, left them in not-cages. Even Melania Trump, who now speaks up so heartily for her son, wore a jacket that read “I really don’t care, do u?” to visit the children in their camps. But never, never did Donald Trump insinuate that those children were not royalty. That, he knew, would have been unthinkable.

No, this indignation is entirely justified. To allude to the fact that the president has minor children who are not royalty is the unkindest cut of all, and we must leave them out of it.

  WaPo

Honestly, you have to wonder why they named the kid Barron.  Or, you can imagine why, I think.  I once heard a black man say he named his son Mister so white people would have to call him Mr. ____.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:

UPDATE:

I bet she's getting death threats, too.

Not just the Nats fans

Trump did not sit with the Lerner family, the principal owners of the Nationals. A representative for the Lerner family put in a request to MLB to not be put in position to turn down a request from the White House to sit with Trump, according to WUSA.

[...]

On Friday, Trump notified he did not want to throw out the ceremonial first pitch or make other public appearance “in order to make the fan experience as positive as possible,” MLB commissioner Rob Manfred said.

  USA Today

Whatever that means.

By the way...



Yeah, where was Barron?  Even Melania got to go.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Merry Christmas

Proud of that presidential seal.  Where's the kid?

I love that they named the kid Barron.  If you can't get a royal title, name one.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Fashion Criticism

I always roll my eyes when there's a "news" article about somebody's clothing - unless of course, it's about somebody wearing Nazi attire.

This Guardian article is discussing Melania's choice of dress, calling it "the sartorial equivalent of slapping Donald Trump’s hand away." Yeah, I had to read the article, to figure out wtf they were going on about.

But here's what I noticed immediately: poor Barron's footwear. Is that the choice of a 12-year-old? And then I realized, he's actually wearing the uniform of the Charlottesville Nazis.

It may be a little soon for that, son.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

She's Alive!

Where do they put the kid?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Tweeting Scared

He used to tweet two or three posts each morning. He's up to ten again this morning. And he's tweeting at night now, too.

via GIPHY

Really, asshole? If you want to bring Barron into the picture, you can't then whine about people attacking him like you did the last time somebody mentioned him. And by the way, we don't need a witch hunt for him, just a hunt. Have Barron and Melania gone underground?

Hillary! Does he dream about Hillary? Did she rebuff his advances once upon a time?

The double hit again - Hillary and Sessions.

"@seanhannity" in case Sean isn't following the Trumpet - he's telling Sean he wants him to keep bringing this up on his program, since he can't very well call him on the White House phone to tell him what to cover.  The Trumpet is absolutely following Sean Hannity's show on Fox, and apparently also Hannity's tweets.

And last night...

Attack, attack, attack. You cannot believe the nation's major papers. Only Trumpet.  Bezos must be gearing up a run for the presidency in 2020.

It strikes me as pretty short-sighted to keep lambasting major media and billionaire corporatists.  Unless he's actually glad to have bad press.  Sure, it baits his base, but are there enough of them?

A lobbyist weapon against Congress? Amazon pays taxes, Liar in Chief. Not nearly enough, I'm sure. But why single out Amazon from other corporations that pay no taxes? Oh, yeah: "Amazon Washington Post".

Oh, look. He had to get a gig at the National Boy Scout Jamboree in order to get a huge crowd.

Patriots! God! Duty!

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:

I Thought Maybe They Wouldn't

She doesn't look too happy about it.

Check out the kid's T-shirt. Does he realize how funny that is?

P.S.He's only eleven??

“Looking forward to the memories we’ll make in our new home! #Movingday,” the first lady tweeted on Sunday evening after she and Barron arrived at the White House with Trump.

  Guardian

Staff is handling her Twitter account, aren't they?

In the case of Donald Trump, many will be anxious to see whether Melania Trump’s daily presence will have a positive influence on Trump’s behaviour and mood, including his often angry tweet storms.

The first lady has said she wishes he would give up tweeting.

[...]

The president spent the weekend at his private golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.

No comment.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Clone in the White House

Now I know how Melania got Barron. He's a clone.

Oh, what? Politicians' kids are off-limits? Sure. After this.

This is the picture the Inflatable Rooster has up as his Twitter heading du jour:



In every pictue I've seen of the kid, he appears either simply a very bored (perhaps typical) pre-teen, or drugged. In the one above, he can't even be bothered to stand along with everybody else. He doesn't look so apathetic as usual; he actually appears to have a smirk on his face. (On the other hand, maybe it's the kid behind him we should be worried about.)

Is he the first male child in the White House since John F. Kennedy, Jr.?

Here are some other pictures in case you haven't been seeing them:

Oh, look. A couple of not sullen, ADD or Biff-like ones:

Better not send that kid out amongst the 99%.




Clone.