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Former first lady Melania Trump has provided an update on how she and Donald’s child Barron are doing during his first semester at New York University.

“He’s doing great,” Melania said during an appearance on Fox News The Five on Tuesday. “He loves his classes and professors. He’s doing well. He aspires and enjoys being back in New York City.

Barron, 18, started classes at NYU’s Stern School of Business in September.

He may be enjoying his time at NYU so far, but some teachers there are anything but positive about his famous father.

In fact, one of Barron’s first visits to campus was to the office of the business school’s interim dean, JP Eggers, who was among 20 Stern educators who signed an open letter in 2020 warning that Trump’s presidency would be a ‘threat’ that would harm business. America.

The letter accuses Trump of being someone who “denigrates science, spreads lies, incites violence, attempts to delegitimize the press, politicizes everything from the Department of Justice to the CDC and the Postal Service, and attempts to undermine the integrity of the undermine American elections.”

Barron, who has mostly attended school while his better-known older siblings served as Trump officials and campaign surrogates, has made headlines in recent months for a variety of reasons.

For example, Melania’s recently released memoir details decorating Barron’s bedroom in the White House. She also describes being “shocked by so much cruelty” over mean-spirited jokes accusing her son of being autistic.

In an interview on Fox News which aired Monday, Donald described how his son learned about the failed assassination attempt in Pennsylvania.

“Barron was playing tennis with his friends, and someone walked up to him and – ran up to him – and said, ‘Your dad’s been shot. He was shot,” he said. “Barron – and Barron loves his father very much. And he came in: ‘Mom, mom, mom, what happened?’ So, and then they saw me stand up, and then they saw the fist pump.

Barron was also reportedly the driving force behind getting his father to appear for an interview with social media influencer Adin Ross.

Even Barron’s college search became something of a news item, with Donald slowly releasing new bits of information.

“It’s in New York, and he’s always been a very good student,” the former president hinted in August. “He’s smart, so we’ll let you know soon.”