Barron Trump not present for livestream promoting new financial platform
According to CoinDesk, former President Donald Trump announced earlier this month that he would unveil a decentralized finance (DeFi) project called World Liberty Financial in an X livestream on September 16.
While CoinDesk cited an internal document it obtained which described Barron Trump as "DeFi visionary," the 18-year-old did not participate in the livestream.
Barron's oldest brother jokes about "damned teenagers"
The UK's Independent reported that Barron's absence brought jokes, including from cryptocurrency entrepreneur Farokh Sarmad, who remarked, "He's not here anymore, we took too long."
Donald Trump Jr. is Barron's eldest sibling, and he got in on the humor as well, saying, "Damned teenagers! I'm like the old boomer now – the grumpy old man with a white beard."
Despite him not being present, Donald Trump Sr. had warm words of praise for his youngest son, declaring, "Barron knows so much about this."
"Barron's a young guy, but he knows – he talks about his [crypto] wallet, he's got four wallets or something, and I'll say 'What is a wallet?' But he knows it inside out," the former president continued.
"It's almost like younger people know it a lot better than older people. But I have a lot of respect for them. They've shown great judgment, all of them," Trump Sr. went on to add.
Trump: "We're embracing the future with crypto"
The Republican nominee had previously touted the livestream and World Liberty Financial in a video posted to X this past Thursday.
.@WorldLibertyFi pic.twitter.com/rHEGQXl4jL
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 12, 2024
"We're embracing the future with crypto and leaving the slow and outdated big banks behind," the former president declared in a video posted to X.
Although no explanation was provided regarding Barron Trump's whereabouts, the college freshman may have been busy with his studies at New York University's Stern School of Business.
Professor at Barron's college have condemned his father
Interestingly, the Independent has noted that Stern's interim dean and 19 other professors at the school once signed on to a letter denouncing Barron's father.
Authored by Harvard University Professor Deepak Malhotra, it alleged that Trump "denigrates science, peddles in lies, incites violence, attempts to delegitimize the press, politicizes everything from the justice department to the CDC to the postal service, and seeks to undermine the integrity of American elections."
"It is time for business leaders to declare publicly what so many have been saying privately: that President Trump is unfit to lead and is a threat to the Republic," Malhotra's letter went on to assert.
