Where’s Barron? Melania and Donald Trump’s son missing from family line-up at RNC

When Donald Trump accepted the Republican party’s presidential nomination on the closing night of the Republican National Convention on Thursday night, the Trump family came out in force.

Wife Melania and eldest daughter Ivanka – who have largely avoided the political limelight since Trump left the White House in 2021 – both joined him on stage as the crowd went wild and red, white and blue balloons descended from the ceiling.

Eric and Don Jr were also there after they both delivered their own speeches earlier at the Milwaukee convention.

So too was his youngest daughter turned RNC delegate Tiffany, as well as several of Trump’s grandchildren and his children’s partners.

But there was one member of the Trump clan who was noticeable by his absence from the family line-up:the former president’s youngest son Barron.

So where was Barron?

The 18-year-old’s absence had previously been announced back in May by the office of his mother, the former first lady.

That month, it was announced that the teenager, who spent his childhood being largely shielded from the limelight by Melania, had been picked to be a delegate-at-large at the RNC.

But soon after the announcement, Melania’s office put out a statement saying that he “regretfully” could not accept the invitation due to prior commitments.

“While Barron is honored to have been chosen as a delegate by the Florida Republican Party, he regretfully declines to participate due to prior commitments,” the statement read.

On Thursday, a Trump campaign official also confirmed to Politico that Barron would not be in attendance for the historic moment where his father accepted the Republican party’s nomination for the third time and delivered his first speech since surviving an