The mystery over Barron Trump’s whereabouts deepened Friday after the president’s son reportedly failed to showed up for the first week of class at New York University.
Barron, 19, has not set foot on the Stern School of Business campus in the Big Apple for his second year of college, according to People.
When asked about Barron’s whereabouts, campus security officers told the outlet, ‘From what I was told, he’s doing a semester at another NYU campus.’
The Daily Mail contacted NYU’s Stern School of Business and the White House for comment.
NYU has several campus including in the Greenwich Village, Downtown Brooklyn, Abu Dhabi and Shanghai.
The school also offers study abroad programs around the world in Washington, DC, Paris, London and more.
Barron, the only child of Trump and First Lady Melania Trump, has not attended an official White House event or appeared alongside his father Donald Trump in months.
Barron Trump (pictured at his father’s inauguration in January) reportedly never showed up for the first week of class at New York University
Barron Trump was pictured leaving class at NYU’s Stern School of Business on May 7
The 19-year-old was last seen by his dad’s side at his inauguration on January 20, where he seemed cool and confident as he put on a show for the cameras.
But since then, Barron hasn’t stepped out with the 79-year-old president – and his noticeable absence has prompted speculation over his whereabouts.
Despite not being seen out with his dad, Barron has been photographed in and around Manhattan.
In April, he was pictured showing off a shaggier, more relaxed mane as he strode with purpose to university classes.
The towering NYU’s Stern School of Business freshman – who stands at 6ft9 – also sported a loose sweater, jeans, and Adidas sneakers.
Barron reportedly commutes to college from the Trump Tower apartment, home to his father and doting 54-year-old mother Melania.
To get him to class, a motorcade of black SUVs drives him 20 minutes to Tisch Hall, Stern’s undergrad building.
Barron has to find creative ways to meet people , including campus co-eds, as he navigates life at one of the country’s most prestigious universities.
It comes as no surprise that the family members of any sitting president of the U.S. take extra precautions to ensure their safety.
Barron, the only child of Trump and First Lady Melania Trump, has not attended an official White House event or appeared alongside his father Donald Trump in months (pictured together on January 18)
Despite not being seen out with his dad, Barron has been photographed in and around Manhattan (pictured in April)
Barron, like all children of US presidents, has increased security measures while he attends university
And for Barron Trump – the president’s youngest son – this means avoiding giving anyone his phone number.
As Barron attempts to cut a low profile and blend in as much as possible in an academic world that seethes with contempt for his father, his plainclothes bodyguards have at least spared him some embarrassment by dispensing with the Secret Service’s usual intimidating wardrobe of black suits and dark glasses.
They’ve adopted a more campus-friendly wardrobe of chinos and polo shirts. And, with the addition of campus ID lanyards, they look more like faculty staff – which is surely the intention.
Faculty staff, however, don’t dog a student’s every step as Barron’s four or five-strong Secret Service detail – who guard him at all times – are doing. While one of them accompanies him into each class, the others man the doors.
Insiders previously told the Daily Mail that they even accompany the 18-year-old son of the President and First Lady when he goes to the restroom.
Barron, who is 6’9, could hardly blend into the background even if he wasn’t shadowed by a posse of bodyguards, has at least got past the stage where fellow students endlessly gawp and post snatched photos of him on social media (as was initially the case when he started last Fall).
However, while he has now become a reasonably familiar face on campus, that doesn’t mean he’s anything like the life and soul of the NYU party. And, inevitably for a college quartered in the pulsing heart of downtown Manhattan, NYU certainly has a hard partying reputation.
The Daily Mail was told Barron once attempted to get into a bar near NYU in the trendy NoHo neighborhood but was refused entry when he couldn’t prove he was the legal drinking age of 21. And that would appear to be the full extent of his undergrad debauchery.
