Exclusive | Barron Trump lives reclusive life amid threats from Iran, assassination attempts on his dad, murder of Charlie Kirk

WASHINGTON — First son Barron Trump keeps a low profile inside a security bubble as he begins his third decade — an apparent response to the climate of growing political violence that includes a series of assassination attempts targeting his father, President Trump.“He doesn’t go out,” one longtime Trumpworld figure told The Post of the 20-year-old Barron, who just concluded his sophomore year at New York University and has spent much of the summer with his mother, first lady Melania Trump, at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in New Jersey.“The kid’s pretty reclusive,” added another source. While Donald Trump has survived at least three assassination attempts since July 2024 — being shot and wounded at a campaign rally in Butler, Pa.; stalked by a would-be assassin at his West Palm Beach, Fla.golf course in September 2024; and attending the White House Correspondents’ Dinner that was attacked by a gunman this past April 25 — his youngest son has not escaped the notice of America’s enemies.Iranian hardliners recently released a video entitled “Where to kill Barron Trump” and claimed to show the movements of the first son.
It also put a $10 million bounty on his head.His mother also has been a target of Iranian hardliners, and Melania Trump was at the April correspondents’ dinner alongside the president.Barron was also deeply affected by the September 2025 assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, with whom he had become close.“This is what happens when you go out there,” Barron told his father while breaking the news to the president, an account first reported by authors Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan in their recent book “Regime Change” and confirmed by The Post.The Office of the First Lady requested privacy for the 20-year-old Barron, telling The Post that “in light of recent threats” the East Wing asked that “any details concerning his private life be excluded from all coverage.”The first lady is ...