Former first son Barron Trump began his first year in college earlier this month and is attending the prestigious New York University's Stern School of Business.

Unfortunately for him, he will be surrounded by school administrators, professors, and fellow students who fervently believe that his father, former President Donald Trump, poses some sort of unique and existential "threat" to the nation and democracy more broadly, according to the Daily Beast.

Whether the intense partisan hatred for his father manifests as a threat to Barron's safety on the Manhattan campus remains to be seen, but the former first son will likely be even more closely surrounded at all times by a protective detail of U.S. Secret Service agents or private security.

Business school leaders spoke out against Trump in 2020

The Daily Beast reported that during the lead-up to the 2020 election, more than 1,000 business school administrators and professors from campuses across the country signed an open letter that condemned then-President Trump for the supposed "threat" he posed to democracy and the republic.

The letter noted how other various professional groups had similarly issued a public condemnation of Trump as "a President who 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."

"These bipartisan groups -- who disagree on many things -- now agree that no positive vision for our country can be realized under the continued presidency of Donald Trump," the letter continued. "It is time for business leaders to follow suit and speak out against the threat Trump poses to our country."

"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," the letter further stated. "And it is time for journalists to start asking America’s CEOs whether they believe four more years of Trump would be good for the country."

Barron met with anti-Trump dean

That 2020 open letter against former President Trump was written and led by Harvard Business School Professor Deepak Malhotra and was joined by more than 1,000 other business school administrators and professors, including more than a dozen members of the faculty and staff at NYU's Stern School of Business, per the Daily Beast.

In fact, 14 Stern administrators and professors signed the anti-Trump letter, including current interim Dean J.P. Eggers, whom Barron Trump met with personally on his first day of class earlier in September.

According to a Sept. 4 New York Post report, the former president's youngest son "was flanked by Secret Service agents as he stepped onto the downtown Manhattan campus" and his "first stop was the dean’s office before being whisked off to classes."

It was unclear whether security measures had been heightened campus-wide due to Barron's presence or if his protective detail was the only additional precaution, and it was further noted that the former first son would live off-campus and commute every day from his father's Trump Tower just a few blocks away in Manhattan.

Trump supports son's choice of school

After a summer of secrecy about where Barron Trump would attend college this fall, it was finally revealed shortly before classes began that he would be enrolled in the prestigious business school at NYU, which has a highly selective application acceptance rate.

In an interview with the Daily Mail, former President Trump said of his youngest son, "He was accepted to a lot of colleges. He's a very smart guy, and he'll be going to Stern, the business school, which is a great school at N.Y.U."

"It's a very high-quality place. He liked it. He liked the school. We liked NYU. I've known NYU for a long time, but it's one of the highest-rated ...," he added. "I went to Wharton, and that was certainly one that we were considering. We didn't do that. We went for Stern."