Twenty educators at Barron Trump’s new school signed an open letter calling dad a ‘threat’ to the republic

New York University freshman Barron Trump may have to face several professors who signed an open letter ahead of the 2020 presidential election, warning that his father poses a “threat” to the U.S.

After leaving Trump Tower accompanied by a Secret Service convoy, Barron rang in his first day of college on Wednesday with a visit to the dean’s office before attending his first class at Stern School of Business, a source told the New York Post.

JP Eggers, who became Stern’s interim dean on July 1, was among 20 educators at NYU Stern who signed the October 2020 open letter to “sound the alarm” about the perils of a Donald Trump presidency to business leaders. The letter ultimately garnered more than 1,000 signatures from staff at top business schools across the US.

Professor Deepak Malhotra of Harvard University, who authored the letter, claimed that Trump “denigrates science, peddles in lies, incites violence, attempts to delegitimize the press, politicizes everything from the justice department to the CDC to the postal service, and seeks to undermine the integrity of American elections”.

“It is time for business leaders to declare publicly what so many have been saying privately: that President Trump is unfit to lead and is a threat to the Republic,” he urged.

It is not clear where Eggers’s political support lies ahead ofthe 2024 election in November. The Independent has contacted Eggers and the New York University’s Stern School of Business for comment.

Barron graduated from West Palm Beach, Florida’s Oxbridge Academy in May. After being “accepted to a lot of colleges,” Donald Trump confirmed last week that his youngest son would be attending the prestigious New York institution, where annual tuition starts at about