{"id":2242406,"date":"2024-05-11T12:46:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T16:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/barron-trump-declines-offer-to-be-rnc-delegate-due-to-prior-commitments-but-he-does-like-politics\/"},"modified":"2024-05-11T12:48:11","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T16:48:11","slug":"barron-trump-declines-offer-to-be-rnc-delegate-due-to-prior-commitments-but-he-does-like-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/barron-trump-declines-offer-to-be-rnc-delegate-due-to-prior-commitments-but-he-does-like-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Barron Trump Turns Down RNC Delegate Offer Due To Prior Obligations, But Shows Interest in Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbarron-trump-declines-offer-to-be-rnc-delegate-due-to-prior-commitments-but-he-does-like-politics%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2242406&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former President \u200dDonald Trump&#8217;s son Barron has declined an offer to be a delegate at the Republican National \u2063Convention due to prior \u200bcommitments, despite his interest in politics. Melania \u200bTrump&#8217;s \u200doffice expressed Barron&#8217;s gratitude\u200b for being chosen as a\u2063 delegate\u2064 but mentioned his inability to participate. Donald Trump highlighted Barron&#8217;s interest in politics \u200cand his advice-giving role. Former President Donald Trump&#8217;s son Barron has turned down\u200b a delegate offer at the Republican National Convention, citing prior commitments, \u2062although he \u200cis keen \u2063on politics.\u200c Melania Trump&#8217;s office conveyed Barron&#8217;s appreciation \u2064for the delegate \u2064selection \u200bbut noted his inability to partake. Donald Trump underscored Barron&#8217;s political interest and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-judicial-nominee-apologizes-to-senate-for-not-disclosing-role-at-event-with-anti-israel-activists\/\" title=\"Biden's judicial nominee regrets not revealing involvement with anti-Israel activists to Senate\">advisory\u2062 role<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump\u2019s youngest son Barron has declined an offer to be a delegate at this year\u2019s Republican National Convention (RNC), but not for lack of interest in politics.<\/p>\n<p>A statement from former first lady Melania Trump\u2019s office said, \u201cWhile Barron is honored to have been chosen as a delegate by the Florida Republican Party, he regretfully declines to participate due to prior commitments,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/4657094-barron-trump-declines-rnc-delegate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to<\/a> The Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump, who is the presumptive GOP presidential nominee in the current election cycle, said in a radio interview on Friday that Barron \u201cdoes like politics\u201d and often gives his father advice on what political moves he should make.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s really been a great student,\u201d Trump said of his son who graduates from high school next week. \u201cAnd he does like politics. It\u2019s sort of funny. He\u2019ll tell me sometimes, \u2018Dad, this is what you have to do.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the Florida Republican Party <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/barron-trump-picked-as-florida-gop-delegate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">selected<\/a> Barron to be an at-large delegate at the RNC in July in Milwaukee. If Barron had gone through with it, the 18-year-old would have joined his half-siblings, Don Jr., Eric, and Tiffany, to be part of the Florida delegation.<\/p>\n<p>A Trump campaign official had previously told <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/barron-trump-picked-serve-florida-delegate-republican-national\/story?id=110049809\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ABC News<\/a> that Barron was \u201con the delegation roster and \u2026 is very interested in our nation\u2019s political process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barron was just 10 years old when his father was elected to the White House in 2016. Since that time, Barron has been largely kept out of the spotlight, only occasionally appearing beside his parents and family at campaign and public events.<\/p>\n<p>In recent weeks, however, the media has focused more on Donald Trump\u2019s youngest son \u2014 who now towers over all of his family at 6\u20197 \u2014 as the former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/makes-u-s-uncompetitive-funds-favored-industries-friends-analysts-rip-bidens-infrastructure-plan\/\" title=\"Makes U.S. \u2018Uncompetitive,\u2019 Funds \u2018Favored Industries, Friends\u2019: Analysts Rip Biden\u2019s Infrastructure Plan\">president sits<\/a> through a criminal trial in Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1700760801843000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2PQrVSrJfhxNb4LcARqniG\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump has been stuck in the courtroom for four days a week in a trial focused on 34 felony counts of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/are-the-charges-brought-against-the-trump-organizations-cfo-part-of-a-witch-hunt-experts-weigh-in\/\" title=\"Are The Charges Brought Against The Trump Organization\u2019s CFO Part Of A Witch Hunt? Experts Weigh In\">falsifying business records<\/a> to allegedly cover up payments, including to adult film actress Stormy Daniels, in a bid to conceal damaging information as part of a \u201ccatch-and-kill\u201d scheme to influence the 2016 election. The elder Trump has pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n<p>Barron was cast into the spotlight during the trial as his father\u2019s defense attorneys argued before Judge Juan Merchan that their client should be allowed a day off to attend Barron\u2019s graduation ceremony next Friday. Merchan eventually agreed to allow Donald Trump to attend Barron\u2019s graduation.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump\u2019s son Barron declined being a delegate at the Republican National Convention. Despite his interest in politics, Barron cited prior commitments. Melania Trump&#8217;s office stated that Barron appreciates the selection as a delegate by the Florida Republican committee but must prioritize existing obligations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":2242407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/Barron-Trump-1-scaled-e1715439062632.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2242406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/Barron-Trump-1-scaled-e1715439062632.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2242406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2242407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2242406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2242406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2242406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}