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Former President Donald Trump revealed that his youngest son, Barron Trump, learned about him being shot when he was at a tennis lesson.
During an interview with Fox News’ Mark Levin, Trump revealed his youngest son learned that his father had been shot while on the tennis court.
“He’s a good tennis player. And somebody ran up (and said), ‘Barron! Barron! Your father’s been shot,’” Trump recounted, adding that Barron reacted immediately: “He loves his father. He’s a good kid, a good student. And he ran, ‘Mom! What’s going on? What’s going on?”
Trump said his wife, former First Lady Melania Trump, was watching coverage of the July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and saw the attempt on his life play out live. “She was watching it live. Can you imagine? And then I got up and let people know I was okay. Fight. Fight. Fight. But it was a big hit,” Trump said.
In a previous interview with Fox News, Trump had spoken about Melania’s reaction to seeing the assassination attempt: “When I could talk to people, I said, ‘So what was your feeling?’, and she said she can’t even talk about it, which is okay because that means she likes me,” he said.
At another point in the interview, Trump said that, after he had been taken to safety following the shooting, his son, Donald Trump Jr., who is “great with guns,” told him, “I can’t believe it. From that distance… I can’t believe it.”
“From that distance it’s supposed to be, like, a sure thing,” Trump continued, alluding that the shooter, Matthew Crooks, should have had no problem hitting him directly. “Like sinking a one-foot putt.” Trump had been showing a chart of border crossing statistics when he was shot. “If I turned around just a little bit less, or a little bit more,” he said. “If I turned around more or less, it was still the end.”
Barron Trump has experienced many changes this summer.
On Wednesday, Barron was seen going to his first day of school at New York University in Manhattan.
The New York Post shared pictures showing Barron Trump getting out of a car with Secret Service guards at NYU’s campus in downtown Manhattan.
On Wednesday, the ex-president told the Daily Mail that Barron goes to NYU’s Stern School of Business.
“He’s a very smart guy, and he’ll be going to Stern, the business school, which is a great school at NYU,” Trump said.
The former president has talked about the idea of his son going to the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, which is where he went to school and where Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump Jr., and Tiffany Trump also finished. Eric Trump went to college at Georgetown.
Barron Trump arrives at NYU for first day at college https://t.co/kSYvHsPfW1 pic.twitter.com/PWTTACIb76
— New York Post (@nypost) September 4, 2024
Trump hinted that Barron would be going to college in New York in an exclusive interview with the New York Post last month, but he didn’t say anything else at the time.
In an April interview with Fox News Digital, Melania Trump, who used to be the first lady, said that her bond with Barron makes her prouder than anything else. The ex-president and Melania only have this child together.
