Barron waves and pumps his fist as Trump introduces youngest son to 2024 campaign: ‘Welcome to the scene’

Donald Trump introduced his 18-year-old son Barron at a political rally “for the first time” during the criminally convicted former president’sreturn to the campaign trail on Tuesday night.

Barron, who sat in the front row, stood up and waved to the crowd and pumped his fist after his father introduced him and other members of the Trump family during his rambling 90-minute remarks from his Doral resort in Miami.

Trump joked that his youngest son is “more popular” than his sons Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump.

“That’s the first time he’s done it,” Trump said from the stage. “He might be more popular than Don and Eric … Welcome to the scene, Barron, I don’t know. He had such a nice, easy life. Now it’s a little bit changed. Special guy, right?”

Barron Trump, who graduated high school in May, has largely remained out of the way of his father’s political blitzkrieg. A then-9-year-old Barron was hesitant about leaving Manhattan for the White House when Trump was elected president, and he attended schools in New York, Florida and Maryland in the years that followed.

Before a jury convicted him, Trump convinced the judge overseeing his hush money trial in New York to briefly adjourn so he could attend Barron’s graduation ceremony in Florida.

“A very young man who’s now going to college,” Trump said on Tuesday. “Got into every college he wanted to and he made his choice. And he’s a very good guy.”

Barron, the only child Trump has had with third wife and former first lady Melania Trump, was selected to attend the Republican National Convention as a Florida delegate to back his father’s nomination. But his mother said he had declined the invitation because of “prior commitments.”

He was recently captured on an apparently covertly