Barron Trump: the suffering of being a president's child
His (rare) facts and (hesitant) gestures have made him the deadliest of tyrannical social networks. Before him, Chelsea Clinton, the Bush twins and the Obama sisters have already passed through the damn nursery of the White House.
"We know that it was not always easy", wrote recently Barbara and Jenna Bush in an open letter to the daughters of Barack Obama, published in the columns of Time. “You survived the incredible pressure from the White House. You have heard harsh criticisms of your parents from people who have never met them. You kept your head up while your precious parents were reduced to headlines, ”they summed up in their letter, a few days before Malia and Sasha left the presidential residence. These same Malia and Sasha who have left their rooms to the new young tenant of the White House: Barron Trump, 10 years old, the fifth and last child of Donald Trump (the first of Melania).
If the eight years they spent near the Oval Office seemed sweet and happy to us, in the shadow of the worst, Barron's early days begin, how to say, in the blinding light. Become the target of many online mockery, plagued by hundreds of gifs and memes more humiliating than each other, victim of a vitriolic tweet from an author of "Saturday Night Live" (suspended since, by the production ), the last of the Trump dynasty endures the blows. To the point that the White House had to call for respect for the young man's privacy on Tuesday, in the name of a tradition that has always been widely respected in the United States. "Tradition that the children of presidents can grow up out of the spotlight," the US executive reaffirmed in a brief statement.
To all those who attack Barron and his supposed autism (because that's what we're talking about), Chelsea Clinton hammered Monday on Twitter that "Barron Trump deserves, like all children, to have the chance to be a kid ”. And Hillary and Bill Clinton's daughter knows what she's talking about. She herself was the main target of the anti-Clintons in the 1990s.
Chelsea Clinton, welcome to the thankless age
She is 12 years old and a mountain of curls when she receives her first tomatoes in her face. On November 6, 1992, just days after Bill Clinton was elected, she suffered the gratuitous nastiness of the ultra-conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh, who publicly compared her to the Bush family spaniel. And this, while the new president of the United States had rightly demanded that his only daughter be kept away from the media. She was 18 years old when, in the middle of Monicagate, Republican Senator John McCain dared the inviolable. "Do you know why Chelsea Clinton is so ugly?" he launches like a bad joke in the forum of a lunch-debate in 1998. “Because the real father of Chelsea is Janet Reno (Minister of Justice Bill Clinton between 1993 and 2001, Editor's note) . "
In a portrait of Chelsea Clinton that appeared in Vanity Fair in 2015, we understand that by dint of easy criticism and media trials, the normal little girl has become a sheep in the midst of wolves. “She was a warm young girl; it has become dark and icy ”, tells a former comrade in the columns of the magazine.
“She gradually learned to control her emotions,” noted Hillary Clinton in her book It takes a village to raise a child, published in 1996. In a conference on women and politics in 2012, Chelsea Clinton told her audience: "I grew up in the eyes of all, I know that you have to have a tough skin to survive".
Barbara and Jenna Bush, party girls
With the daughters of Laura and George W. Bush, it's different. Strategically or - no doubt - not, they did not wait for someone to come and surprise them behind the curtains of the White House. They themselves opened the blinds. In the summer of 2001, Bush Jr. had only been president for a few months and his 19-year-old twins were already a secret service's nightmare. In May 2001, Jenna Bush was arrested at a nightclub in Austin for having a beer in her hand. No one remembers her arriving in court to plead her case in a black miniskirt, neon pink capri pants, and toe ring, other than the Guardian. A month later, the two sisters are again stuck trying to buy alcohol with false IDs.
If the press begins to find all this embarrassing for George W. Bush - because yes, Jenna's boyfriend was also annoyed for public drunkenness and manifesto in January - not enough to panic the press service of the White House. Bush girls love beer, and what's more normal? The Bush girls wear spaghetti-strap tank tops and giggle loudly at Republican conventions, and so what?
When they write their first open letter to the Obama girls, in 2009, when Barack takes office at the Oval Office, they are more than enthusiastic: “Just go for it. Four years go by so quickly, so soak up everything, and above all, enjoy everything! Have fun and enjoy your childhood in this magical place. ” Advice that Malia, at least, will have followed with more or less over-mediatization. Between an internship on the set of a series produced by Steven Spielberg and a fashion coming out in Cuba, she publicly twerked at a music festival in Chicago and, despite, was photographed in front of a bang at a party. university. Hopefully Barron Trump can one day, in turn, read these few life mantras signed by Barbara and Jenna - for, who knows, flip Trump Tower and run far away with Suri Cruise.
