Melania Trump breaks silence on Barron's Harvard admission theory, says THIS

Amid the conflict between Harvard University and Trump administration, First lady Melania Trump on Tuesday shot down a viral conspiracy theory that her son Barron applied to Harvard University and was rejected.

“Barron did not apply to Harvard, and any assertion that he, or that anyone on his behalf, applied is completely false,” said Nicholas Clemens, the first lady’s communications director, New York Post reported.

The spokesperson termed the assertion “completely false".

The 19-year-old’s admission status had sparked intense speculation on social media, fueled by his father’s ongoing criticism of the Ivy League university and the cancellation of its federal funding.

On Tuesday, President Trump withdrew an additional $100 million from Harvard, bringing the total amount of grants and contracts revoked since he took office to over $3 billion.

The termination of funding, along with efforts to remove foreign students from the Cambridge, Massachusetts campus, has prompted several legal challenges.

Donald Trump on his son Barron

Barron Trump recently finished his freshman year at New York University, having graduated from Oxbridge Academy in West Palm Beach, Florida, in the spring of 2024.

“He’s got an unbelievable aptitude in technology. Barron is a very smart guy," Trump said in a Fox News March interview when asked whether his son would shine in politics or business.

The US president previously told The Post that multiple schools had extended admission offers to his son, though he did not reveal which institutions they were. The 6-foot-7 heir has also shown an interest in politics, joining his father at campaign rallies and events throughout the 2024 election cycle.

“He’s a little on the tall side. I will tell you, he’s a tall one, but he is a good-looking guy. And he’s really been a great student. And he does like politics. It’s sort of funny,” Trump informed “Kayal and Company” on Philadelphia’s Talk Radio 1210 WPHT last year.

He’s following in his father’s footsteps by pursuing a business degree at NYU’s Stern School, with an expected graduation in the class of 2028. Trump earned an economics degree from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1968. Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest child, received the same degree from Penn in 2000, followed by Ivanka Trump in 2004.

Ivanka initially enrolled at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business before transferring. Her father began his college education at Fordham University in the Bronx. Eric Trump earned a bachelor’s degree in finance and management from McDonough in 2006. Their younger sister Tiffany received a law degree from Georgetown in 2020, after earning a bachelor’s degree in sociology from the same university in 2016.