Donald Trump’s grand Fourth of July celebrations were full of pomp and circumstance – as well as a fair amount of chaos – but seemingly not attended by his youngest son, Barron.
The Trump scion did not make an appearance at the Great American State Fair on Saturday, despite his mother attending the event. He last made a public appearance at the UFC Freedom 250 event, which was hosted on the South Lawn of the White House for the president’s 80th birthday last month.
Barron, who rarely makes appearances at media events, is currently attending New York University at the school’s Washington D.C. campus.
However, he was not the only one of the president’s children to miss the July 4 celebrations in Washington, D.C, which culminated in a speech by Trump and a huge firework show.
Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner and their children were seen a day earlier at Michael Rubin’s White Party in the Hamptons, according to The Daily Beast.
Other members of the Trump family, including the president’s children, Don Jr., Eric Trump and Tiffany, have all visited the Great American State Fair.
Even Tiffany’s mother and Trump’s ex-wife, Marla Maples, was spotted at the event and shared her experience there on her Instagram account.
“Thank you to Never Surrender USA for bringing together such an inspiring group of young leaders at the Great American State Fair in Washington, DC,” she wrote.
The Great American State Fair, a 16-day event which kicked off on June 24, has been plagued with problems, with Freedom 250 temporarily closing it down on Friday afternoon due to the blistering heat in D.C.
.jpeg)
“Everyone is being asked to go to the exits,” Fox News congressional correspondent Bill Melugin wrote on X at the time. “It is miserably hot and humid today, genuinely feels like a sauna when you step outside.”
Trump was reportedly “livid” at the crowd size at the fair’s kickoff event, sources told CNN, and was “enraged” at seeing an aerial picture that showed sparse fields beyond the audience that had gathered around the stage.
“The mistake here was not driving attendance,” one person close to the White House told the network, referring to the crowd sizes. “It was an ‘if you build it, they will come’ mentality that failed.”
Trump’s July 4 speech faced disruptions due to severe weather, which led to evacuations from the event on Saturday.
However, once his speech began, the president touted his own record and declared that “America is a nation of winners.”
On Truth Social, he claimed that 422,000 people had gathered before the evacuation took place.
“Incredibly, at least 150,000 people returned, and it was an even more spectacular evening than it would have been as normalized!” he added.
