Barron Trump, the bro whisperer?
Donald Trump’s youngest son just started classes at NYU, but has been behind the former president reaching some of his biggest audiences of the 2024 election cycle — through the Republican nominee’s appearances on podcasts aimed at Gen Z and millennial men.
The reticent 18-year-old has rarely been spotted on the campaign trail. But his 78-year-old dad has frequently credited Barron with helping the elder Trump pick his podcast spots.
Trump recently sat for an interview with streamer Adin Ross and has also appeared on “This Past Weekend with Theo Von,” “Flagrant” with comic Andrew Schulz and the “PBD Podcast” with businessman Patrick Bet-David.
Trump’s Aug. 20 appearance with Von, which included a discussion of cocaine, has garnered 14 million views alone. The Oct. 9 “Flagrant” appearance with Schulz had received 6.2 million views as of Friday, while Trump’s Oct. 17 sit-down with Bet-David had a YouTube audience of 2.8 million.
The former president began the interview with Von, 44, by saying Barron had told him of the Louisiana-born comedian: “Dad, he’s big. He’s a big one.
The 45th president also appeared in June on Logan Paul’s “Impaulsive” podcast (6.68 million views) and taped an appearance Friday on “The Joe Rogan Experience,” the most-listened-to podcast on Spotify.
Democratic nominee Kamala Harris’ forays into the podcasting jungle have had less impressive results. On Oct. 14, she recorded an interview with “The Shade Room” that had just over 144,000 views as of Friday.
An eight-minute clip of her appearance on the popular “Call Her Daddy” podcast, released Oct. 6, had a relatively paltry 675,000 views as of Friday.
“Barron has been very involved in recommending a number of the podcasts that we should do,” Trump campaign senior adviser Jason Miller told the Politico “Playbook Deep Dive” podcast Friday.
“I got to tell you, hats off to the young man. Every single recommendation he’s had has turned out to be absolute ratings gold that’s broke the internet.”
Miller added: “When you look at the impact of podcasts or YouTube shows — non-traditional media — part of the thing is you’re meeting voters where they’re at.”
Trump has previously said his son also likes to advise him on politics.
“He’s a little on the tall side. I will tell you, he’s a tall one, but he is a good-looking guy. And he’s really been a great student. And he does like politics. It’s sort of funny,” Trump told “Kayal and Company” on Philadelphia’s Talk Radio 1210 WPHT in May.
“He’ll tell me sometimes, ‘Dad, this is what you have to do,’” he went on.
Trump spokesperson Karoline Leavitt previously told The Post the campaign is focusing on getting media coverage through social media engagement and clip sharing.
“President Trump is very likeable, and everything he does is a viral moment, whether it’s just simply walking into a Chick-fil-A in Atlanta and meeting with the young workers or flipping burgers at an Iowa football game tailgate,” she said in April.
There have been calls on social media for Trump to appear on a female-oriented podcast.
The hosts of the “Red Scare” podcast, Dasha Nekrasova and Anna Khachiyan, approached him at the Pubkey bitcoin bar in New York last month and asked him to come on their show — but the former president has not yet publicly committed to the offer.
https://nypost.com/2024/10/25/us-news/how-barron-trump-has-been-influencing-his-dads-presidential-run-and-helping-him-reach-younger-voters/
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