"Barron Trump is only 10 years old: he has the right to behave like a child". Defense against attacks against The Donald's son
"Barron Trump has the right to behave like a child", Chelsea Clinton thundered on Twitter in response to the many (too many) jeers that some American press is reserving for the young scion of the president of the United States of America. Barron, just 10 years old, was catapulted into the spotlight of the biggest stage in the world. They could also be forgiven, therefore, the yawns, the "out of place" smiles, the grimaces and distractions during the conventions and the inaugural speeches of dad. Yet it does not seem so.
From the very first bars, in fact, the media have paused to observe the behavior of this child, lingering on the disheveled poses and his lost gaze while attending what for him must be "very boring" meetings and business meetings of mum and dad. . Probably he will not have the elegance and style of Malia and Sasha Obama, but this cannot justify the harsh attacks that already in November gave him the autistic, triggering, among other things, the indignation of the many associations of parents of children. really affected by this syndrome who asked to stop "playing" on certain topics.
It happened, in fact, that Rosie O'Donnel, actress and LGBT activist, shared an artfully packaged video that shows Barron's "strange" attitudes: demonstrating, according to her, that the child has autism. Conclusion: she was forced to delete the tweet with so many excuses. A little worse went to Katie Rich, author of Saturday Night Live, the NBC TV show, suspended from her position indefinitely for having written on Twitter on the occasion of the Inauguration Day: "Barron will be this country's first homeschool shooter" , or "Barron will be the first home-educated shooter in this country." A joke that nobody liked. The posthumous apology in which Rich said she was "deeply sorry for my actions and my abusive words was not enough. She is unforgivable."
Already. Unforgivable. And many now think that this crossfire against the baby of the Trump family is truly unforgivable. The strenuous defense that Melissa Earnest, supporter of The Donald, made of Barron, entrusting her thoughts to a post on Facebook, has obtained almost 3 million likes and over 1 million shares.
"Like Trump or not, this is their 10-year-old son, who is still growing up and words hurt" [...] "His life changed forever when his father was sworn in as president of the United States ". "But much earlier he had already become the object of hateful attacks, from the one that he diagnosed a neurological disorder with his degree at the University of Googlè to the 'tweet' of an author of Saturday Night Live". [...] Tonight when you put your children to bed, look them in the eye and ask yourself: 'Could I say such things to my son?'. No child deserves this treatment. His name is Barron Trump, but he is just a child: he must be respected and he is untouchable ".
