Barron Trump, not so studious teenager: his father Donald Trump grills him in front of journalists
While confinement also prevails in the United States, Donald Trump quipped in front of journalists about the reaction of his son Barron, 14, when he learned that he was out of school.
Barron Trump, who just turned 14 on March 20, does not know the blues of confinement in the White House. Asked this March 30 on the morale of the teenager by journalists from the Fox News channel, Donald Trump said: "Well Barron is not unhappy. No, he is not unhappy at all. We told him that he couldn't go to school anymore. Well, I can't say he sat on the floor in protest. He didn't complain. "
The son of the American president and Melania Trump, whom some dream of seeing follow in his mother's footsteps on the catwalks, seems not to suffer too much from his confinement inside 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. His father must have reassured him at the start of the Covid-19 epidemic. But in the family, it is, it seems, the First Lady who is most worried about massive contamination.
A birthday behind closed doors
Barron had his birthday on March 20 with his family, inside the White House. The presidential mansion is not a prison, it is true, with its 132 rooms and 146 windows opening onto a 7 hectare park. Since the realization by the head of the American state that the new coronavirus would also severely affect his country, the staff at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue has however been significantly reduced. Members of the presidential staff are encouraged to telework. And those still authorized to enter the White House must take their temperature daily and respect a distance of nearly 2 meters with the presidential family.
Tested negative but still cautious, Melania Trump had to give up a tradition that punctuates the Spring of the White House every year: the Easter egg hunt in the gardens of the presidential residence. The state dinner scheduled to take place Letizia and Felipe Spain was also canceled. An attentive mother, the First Lady is now focused on the well-being of Barron who she sometimes knows fragile.
