A new video posted online provides an extraordinarily rare snippet of Barron Trump speaking – as his powerful father jokes about putting him into the Ultimate Fighting cage.
The clip, posted on by the Johnny MAGA account on X, appears to come from election night, based on the Fox News battleground coverage in the background. The sound of Barron’s recorded voice is so scant that clips more than a decade old have circulated recently.
The video features UFC CEO Dana White, who appeared with Trump on stage election night and thanked a series of podcasters including Joe Rogan.
The president’s son with wife Melania Trump takes up the role of the polite companion to his soon-to-be victorious father, sporting a striped tie and an American flag pin while he makes intorductions.
‘Hello. How are you? Very nice to see you,’ he says to a person who is not in the shot.
Then, Barron’s father introduces him to White, a longtime friend who hosted him at a championship fight at Madison Square Garden two weeks ago, and who spoke at his election night victory party and thanked the ‘powerful’ Joe Rogan.
Rogan gave Trump an extended interview and endorsed him in the final days of the campaign.
A newly revealed video clip shows Barron Trump speaking as the votes came in last month
Trump, who regularly speaks admirably about his son but reveals few personal details, then spoke about the respone Barron got from the crowd, in a possible reference to a rally.
‘I gave him a shout out last night, the place went crazy: Ba-ron Ba-ron’ Trump says, gushing about his son.
Then he quipped to White: ‘Can we make him into a fighter?’ – drawing guffaws from a crowd.
Barron, 18-years-old and 6-foot-seven, is built more like a basketball player than a pro wrestler, and Trump regularly comments on his son’s height.
Despite his frame, New York University student’s favorite sport is reportedly soccer.
Ironically given his quip about getting his son ready for a Mixed Martial Arts fight in a cage, Trump in the past has said he would encourage his son to play football, where concussions continue to make headlines.
Barron’s famous father joked to UFC CEO Dana White, ‘Can we make him into a fighter?’
Barron, whose voice is seldom captured and released, was introduced to Dana White as his father clinched the election
It’s “a dangerous sport,” Trump said. ‘If he wanted to? Yes. Would I steer him that way? No, I wouldn’t.” he said, PBS News Hour reported.
The clip surfaced while Trump has been encsonced in his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, while sending out a flurry of proposed cabinet nominations, including another with a sports angle.
(He selected former Sen. KellyLoeffler, who sold her stake in a WNBA team after clashing with her players over Black Lives Matter, and is now Trump’s choice to head the Small Business Administration).
Even a brief clip of Barron speaking in public is a rarity. His parents shielded him from media attention before he turned 18.
He then took an increasingly prominent role, steering his father toward podcast interviews and captured on video in July sitting in a golf cart with his father while he dunked on President Biden following their debate.
‘He’s quitting the race. I got him out of the race,’ Trump said prophetically at the time.
Video of Barron speaking is so rare that a clip recently made the rounds recently of him speaking in accented-English as a six-year-old.
