{"id":38452,"date":"2019-08-14T00:42:19","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T00:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38452"},"modified":"2019-08-14T00:42:19","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T00:42:19","slug":"has-anyone-seen-barron-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38452","title":{"rendered":"Has anyone seen Barron Trump?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I am going to broach a subject that well might expose me to criticism that I am picking on a youngster who doesn’t deserve to be picked on.<\/p>\n

Well, I am not going to pick on anyone. I am just curious about something I want to express out loud: Barron Trump, the youngest of the president’s five children, has kept an amazingly low profile while living in the most public<\/em> of houses.<\/p>\n

Do not misunderstand. I am not going to say a single critical thing about the youngster. He is the 13-year-old son of the first couple. He didn’t choose<\/em> to move into the White House after his father got elected president. He’s there because Mom and Dad are there.<\/p>\n

However, as the nation wrestles with the various policies and debates surrounding the Trump administration, I am just struck by the absence of any “optics” involving the president’s young son.<\/p>\n

You know what I’m talking about. First couples with young children living with them in the White House often trot the kids out for photo ops. You see pictures of the president being a loving father, playing with the kids, smooching them on the forehead, acting like a dad.<\/p>\n

Barack and Michelle Obama lived in the White House with two young daughters. We would see the Obama family on occasion at play.<\/p>\n

George and Laura Bush’s twins were more or less grown when W. was elected president, but we saw plenty of the Bush family cavorting and carrying on at the White House.<\/p>\n

Bill and Hillary Clinton’s daughter Chelsea grew up in the public eye as well and we saw plenty of the three of them during their eight years in the White House.<\/p>\n

George and Barbara Bush’s family was grown, too, but the president was proud to show off all five of his children and his many grandchildren.<\/p>\n

John F. Kennedy famously was photographed with his two young children — Caroline and John Jr. — during his brief time as president.<\/p>\n

I hope you get my point. Barron Trump has four older siblings. Three of them — Don Jr., Ivanka and Eric — have been in the news constantly<\/em> during Dad’s term in office. A healthy portion of that news coverage has been, oh, less than flattering. Tiffany, the fourth sibling, has kept out of sight, too, but then again, she doesn’t live with the first couple in our house<\/em>.<\/p>\n

As for Barron, well, the young man deserves plenty of privacy. He’s getting it. As a constituent, though, of the president I am left to wonder out loud why we don’t see any evidence of the Trumps acting like a family.<\/p>\n

This inquiring mind wants to know.<\/p>\n\n

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