The Office of the First Lady defended President Trump’s youngest son following a dig from a Food Network host.
“I hope Barron gets to spend today with whoever his dad is,” said John Henson, who hosts the network’s Halloween Baking Championship after anchoring seven seasons of ABC’s Wipeout.
I hope Barron gets to spend today with whoever his dad is.
— John Henson (@John_Henson) June 21, 2020
His remark was met with condemnation from first lady Melania Trump’s spokeswoman.
“Sadly, we continue to see inappropriate and insensitive comments about the president’s son,” Stephanie Grisham, the former White House press secretary, said in a statement. “As with every other administration, a minor child should be off-limits and allowed to grow up with no judgment or hate from strangers and the media.”
The often reserved first lady made a rare rebuke of the family’s critics after Pamela Karlan, a witness during the Democrats’ impeachment proceedings, referenced Barron Trump by name during testimony.
“The Constitution says there can be no titles of nobility, so while the president can name his son Barron, he can’t make him a baron,” Karlan said.
“A minor child deserves privacy and should be kept out of politics,” Melania Trump said. “Pamela Karlan, you should be ashamed of your very angry and obviously biased public pandering and using a child to do it.”
The first lady’s office also recently denounced a book from Washington Post reporter Mary Jordan that claims Melania Trump delayed moving to Washington from New York City in 2016 to renegotiate a prenuptial agreement.
Grisham discredited Jordan’s book as “belonging in the fiction genre.”
