Amazon founder, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Senate Majority Leader John Thune all chatted with New York University student for half an hour. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and other notable allies of President Donald Trump engaged in a lengthy conversation with 18-year-old Barron Trump on Inauguration Day.
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Rubio was confirmed as Secretary of State by the US Senate just hours after his conversation with the 18-year-old. Barron attended his father’s inauguration at the US Capitol on Monday alongside his mother Melania Trump, his siblings and their families.
The 18-year-old reportedly helped his father’s campaign reach young men throughout the last year, including by persuading him to do an interview with the popular video game streamer Adin Ross and giving him a list of potential podcasts to appear on ahead of Election Day.
Trump ultimately gave interviews to creators like the Nelk Boys, Theo Von, Joe Rogan and Logan Paul throughout his third presidential campaign. John Morgan, a former Democratic megadonor, even told Fox News he thinks Barron is “a lot smarter” than Harris’s campaign strategists after the Democrat failed to appear on many of the same podcasts Trump did.
“Look, if I’m running, I’m going on Joe Rogan, I’m living on Fox. That’s how you change minds,” Morgan said in November. “It turns out, Barron Trump, who looks like a runway model, was telling his father, ‘You need to go on podcasts, you need to go on Joe Rogan,’” Morgan added.
