I guess Barron isn't into sports.

[trof]

His dad goes to a world series game and no Barron.
Goes to the Alabama (ROLL TIDE ) - LSU game and no Barron.
No photo ops of tossing a baseball or football, playing catch with his young son on the south lawn.
No shooting hoops.

I wonder what the kid does all day.
Where does he go to school?
Is he home schooled?

Does Donnie Two-Scoops even remember that he has another son?
Poor kid.

[Mossfern]

1. This is not helpful

[CatWoman]

19. why?

I agree with Trof.

[trof]

20. Sorry. Do you need some help?

I'll do whatever I can.

[CatWoman]

23. LOL

[trof]

30. Hi

[Mossfern]

40. Yes

Please explain how Trump's parenting skills, or his son's interests in sports is relevant to any of the very important domestic and foreign issues our nation is facing.

[denbot]

64. It speaks to character to start.

Or lack there of, but go ahead and defend Shitler.

[Mossfern]

65. I don't see where I defended Trump

That wasn't necessary. I have not attacked anyone in this thread.
As far as seeing his character - I think that's already apparent without bringing his adolescent child into the mix.

[centrarchus]

2. It's best to let all President's at home children live their lives in private...even Trump's spawn

[Talitha]

57. Agreed, please leave minor children alone.

Twitler's adult spawn on the other hand...

[crickets]

72. +1

[mahatmakanejeeves]

3. I wasn't manly either when I was Barron's age.

I hope that's not a necessity. It's okay if he's just himself, isn't it?

I can't name a Redskin or even a National. What does that make me?

[trof]

21. Enjoying sports is 'manly'?

By that definition my wife and daughter are 'manly'.

[RobinA]

55. Does Enjoying

figure skating and gymnastics make me manly? Or maybe it makes me a gay man. Or a lesbian, since I am a woman and figure skating and gymnastics feature women in somewhat skimpy clothing. But that wouldn’t work, because then men who like football would be gay men, since those football outfits are all tight and kind of define certain areas of the body. Sheesh, now I’m all confused.

[trof]

68. I agree.

[Caliman73]

28. It isn't about being "manly"

It seems Trof was pointing out that there are big ticket sporting events that Trump has attended but his young son is not taken, nor does Trump spend any time engaging in typical "father son" activities.

I liked sports. My dad and I went to baseball games, we played basketball together, etc...

My oldest son and I used to throw the ball around. My younger kids and I bike around together and used to play soccer until they didn't want to do so anymore.

I also play board games, video games, and other things they like to do, again, which you rarely see Trump doing with Barron. It is like Barron does not exist in Trump's world.

He is notorious for not having had much presence in any of his kids' lives (except Ivanka) until they were old enough to talk business with him.

[irisblue]

4. 13 yrs old is off limits, not cool

[trof]

5. WHOA!

I'm not criticizing or disparaging Barron.
I pity him.
I'm talking about his father.
This is NOT about Barron.
It's about his father's neglect of him.
jeez

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

6. yah, some of the remarks seem to miss your point......

but that happens a lot around here...….

[trof]

9. Thanks.

[Polly Hennessey]

14. Right on.

Say Barron’s name and the DU Child Protective Services swoop in. Forget context, the name is enough.

[trof]

17. Funny. Thanks.

[Pisces]

7. Trump gives you plenty of ammo to attack him. You don't need to go

Here.

[Caliman73]

29. I know what you are talking about.

Sometimes you have to be very explicit about it though. People will jump to very different conclusions than what you may be wanting to talk about.

[irisblue]

35. I disagree with you here Trof

That person is underage and deserves to be left alone. Remember when Limbaugh went after Chelsea Clinton?

The 3 adults deserves all the publicity they get, Tiffany is a private citizen who stays out of the limelight, you didn't ask about her.


IMO, a minor child of a politician, that has not committed crimes deserves their privacy. Your opinion is different, and we will both go on.

[trof]

69. Jeez. I in no way 'went after' Barron.

And who is Toft?

[irisblue]

71. Poor typing on my part::blush::

I feel that underage kids should be left alone. Period. They cannot help their parents. And they are kids, that kid breaks laws, that is different.

If you had mentioned Tiffany not doing sports stuff with the apricot hellbeast, since she goes to law school in DC, I'd have said nothing.

I feel differently then you do. Just a different opinion


And I never used the phrase 'went after'

[Ferrets are Cool]

45. Yeah, seems that some want to jump on your back

but I got your back my friend.

[virgogal]

48. Maybe Barron hates sport. So what?

[davsand]

67. Trof, I never took your post as being negative to the child.

The father, however, doesn't seem to spend much time interacting with his child--and clearly doesn't appear to share much of an affection with his son. It's sad. I feel sorry for the child because he clearly didn't choose to be in that family or the current circumstances.

The father deserves every criticism he gets.


Laura

[Drahthaardogs]

8. Melanoma rubs him with fucking caviar every night

I'm sure that kid is fooked up with those two. Sad really. He has no chance.

[malaise]

10. He likes global football

I've seen photos of him in gear

[emmaverybo]

11. Barron is a mere child whose behavior has no impact on our interests. He is not involved in

the Trump presidency or Trump’s criminal businesses, unlike Ivanka and the other sons. I think he is well-sheltered, at least by his mother.

[brush]

12. Good point. What do they tell the kid when he and Melanoma walk out the door?

Not normal. It's as if the kid doesn't exist. The Obama kids, W kids, Chelsea Clinton—all were frequently in media in photos with parents or their own activities.

The rumors about the kid must be true. He's seen so infrequently that last time there was a photo it was a shock as he's grown into a giant compared to when he was first seen in photos as a pre-teen.

[trof]

18. That's my point exactly.

[brush]

25. So a teenage boy shouldn't go to the World Series or a big football game with his parents?

Come on. The kids of the last three presidents had private lives but at times appeared with their parents, which no one can really say is an invasion of their privacy.

[unitedwethrive]

13. Normal teens are embarassed to be seen with their parents...

imagine if your dad was trump...

[Caliman73]

31. Sasha and Melia were seen very frequently at events with their parents.

It is true that teenagers do tend to not want to hang around with their parents as much, but you have examples in The Obama's, and the Clinton's where their children were active with their parents. You have pictures of the Kennedy's with their boys, and their daughters too.

[unitedwethrive]

44. Again, imagine if your dad was trump

[sop]

51. Exactly. Perhaps he likes sports well enough, just not his father. Can anyone blame him?

[Olafjoy]

60. Malia

[Golden Raisin]

15. Not uncommon with narcissist fathers.

My father, also a narcissist, never took me to any professional games (any sport) and never played catch with me. I have tremendous sympathy for Barron and hope Melania is both keeping him out of the public spotlight and monitoring any potential damage done by a narcissist father like Trump. I'm 70 and some of the scars inflicted by my father still sting.

[Piasladic]

22. I feel you

Even after my dad died, I still cringe thinking about some times I spent with him.

[BigMin28]

16. The poor kid

Is probably better off spending as little time as possible with that nightmare of a parent.

[trof]

32. True

[BuffaloJackalope]

24. Miami DJ Says He Watched Donald Trump Brutally Slap His Son in College

"Don Jr. opened the door, wearing a Yankee jersey. Without saying a word, his father slapped him across the face, knocking him to the floor in front of all of his classmates," Melker writes on Facebook. "He simply said 'put on a suit and meet me outside,' and closed the door."

https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/miami-dj-says-he-watched-donald-trump-brutally-slap-his-son-in-college-8900500

[applegrove]

26. It is good the child is kept away from it all.

[Eko]

27. Maybe he doesnt like football or baseball.

I cant stand them myself.

[EndlessWire]

58. Or maybe he doesn't like his Dad.

When I was 15, I begged to stay home from family vacations because of physical abuse.

Also, maybe they don't want the kid hearing his dad get booed.

I'm for protecting the kid.

[Eko]

73. Could be all of those.

[Freedomofspeech]

33. This was not to disparage Barron...

Merely a point that you never see him with that poor child nor his grandchildren.

[trof]

37. Can you imagine if Obama had had grandchildren?

We'd be sick of seeing them.
OK, not really.
But you make another good point.

Donnie Two-Scoops doesn't just suck as president, he sucks at parenting and even grandparenting.

[sop]

54. The only one of his five offspring Trump is regularly seen with is Ivanka. That's telling.

Don Jr. seemingly spends his every waking moment trying to please the old man, sucking up and trying to outTrump Trump. Eric, not so much. Tiffany looks visibly pained every time she's been photographed with dear old dad. Melania probably believes her only son shouldn't be exposed to bad influences.

[lanlady]

34. He also wasn't at the July 4 military parade aka Melania's wet t-shirt contest

Which really made me wonder... Nothing against him, he's just a child, but this is awfully odd behavior for parents. It's as if he doesn't exist.

[Blue_true]

36. I think that I read that he was a soccer player and goes to a private school.

The school may be why his mom seems to avoid the White House except for photo-ops, from what I read, the school is closer to where she seem to be most of the time.

[vsrazdem]

38. I read somewhere that he and his mother spend most of their time at the home of her parents

which apparently is nearby. I don't think they are even around Trump much.

[HipChick]

39. Not just Barron..Trump is not pictured around any kids much...

[keithbvadu2]

50. Trump/Melania using a baby orphaned by one of Trump's followers for a political photo-op.

Trump/Melania using a baby orphaned by one of Trump's followers for a political photo-op.

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[Rorey]

53. Wow

What a contrast.

The few times we've seen Conald attempt to look like he has feelings about anything, he just looks awkward.

[EveHammond13]

41. I bet he wants to shoot hoops with Obama.

[MoonRiver]

42. Poor kid

[NCLefty]

43. I'm sure Melania is teaching him to act in all the right ways around daddy so he doesn't turn on you

[Grasswire2]

47. yikes....scary.

I have nightmares about that red raging face, bulging eyes, snarling. Poor Barron.

[Grasswire2]

46. Barron and Melania reportedly do not live in the White House..

...but rather with her parents.

I think the going to the sporting event with a gang of men in suits is a MOB thing.

[sop]

56. a gang of men in suits with guns

[Grasswire2]

62. yeah

sixty years ago they would have worn hats. NYC mob.

[UniteFightBack]

49. I'm sure Barron is relieved that the old orange man has little interest in him. Besides, he did

this with his other kids too. He was not involved in their upbringing. There are quotes from him about him about it...something like they raise them and I all I do is pay for them and that is all. So this treatment or lack of is nothing new to dotard dump.

[dflprincess]

52. He attends St. Andrew's Episcopal School in Maryland

about 20 miles from the White House (I wonder what that daily commute costs us). A very good school apparently doing interesting work with Johns Hopkins about brain science and better teaching techniques. Don't read anything into that it apparently applies to all their students & their website says they accept kids of "all abilities" - assuming their parents can afford the 40K+ annual tuition.

His alleged parents probably didn't want to send him to Sidwell because Sasha Obama was still there when he started at St. Andrew's.

[Skittles]

59. maybe he just does not want to be around his dad

we can all understand that

[Iggo]

61. No kids.

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Fixed.

[Raine]

63. Leave Barron alone

using the kid to get in a dig at his father is nothing but a cheap shot!

[MineralMan]

66. How is any of that our business?

Leave the kid alone.

[trof]

70. Oh yessir. Right away sir.

Is there ANYTHING else you command?