Barron Trump joked at a dinner he hosted at his father’s Mar-a-Lago residence: “Who would ever eat meals with a silver spoon, mine was gold.”
The purported quote was a second-hand story by a podcast presenter who stated he attended a dinner hosted by the youthful Trump. We’ve got reached out to Donald Trump’s spokesperson to verify whether or not this recounting of occasions was correct.
In October 2024, a quote attributed to Barron Trump, son of former U.S. President Donald Trump, resurfaced on-line. The previous president’s youngest son reportedly hosted a dinner at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida, the place he allegedly joked: “Who would ever eat meals with a silver spoon, mine was gold.”
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Briefly, the declare emerged from a podcast host who described having dinner with Barron when he made the joke. Snopes has reached out to the Trump marketing campaign to verify the podcast host’s model of occasions. Till then, this story is rated as a research-in-progress.
The story concerning the former president’s son was first shared in early April 2024 on the PBD Podcast, a present affairs and enterprise podcast. Hosted by Patrick Wager-David, an entrepreneur, it additionally featured Fox Information anchor Jesse Waters, fellow host Adam Sosnick, entrepreneur Tom Ellsworth, and comic Vincent Oshana.
The story started (across the 1:31:56 timestamp) with Wager-David sharing {a photograph} of himself with Barron and describing how he was invited by the youthful Trump to Mar-a-Lago for dinner. The hosts talked about how Barron had simply turned 18 and was getting ready to go to college.
The total transcript (at 1:34:19) together with the anecdote in query is under:
Patrick Wager-David: I do not know who begins telling the story [at dinner], saying: “Yeah, my dad comes from trailer properties” [CROSSTALK] and everyone’s type of speaking about their sob story after which Barron’s like: “Yeah, similar right here. I imply I used to be born in a penthouse of a constructing all the best way on the high. Life was exhausting.” [He] talked about being fed by a silver spoon: “Who would ever eat meals with a silver spoon, mine was gold.”
The host shared the anecdote to go with the youthful Trump, illustrating what he described as Barron’s humor and wit.
Nonetheless, it was a second-hand report that didn’t come from the president’s son himself, nor has it but been verified by some other attendees current.
It has not been potential to independently confirm the anecdote to date, however we’ve reached out to the Trump marketing campaign to study if this model of Wager-David’s account is correct. We are going to replace this story if we get extra data.
In September 2024, Barron Trump began his first week of school at New York College. He stayed away from the limelight throughout his father’s presidency and reportedly declined to be a delegate on the Republican Nationwide Conference in Could 2024 resulting from “prior commitments.”
