The director of the University of New York's department for the organization "Republicans of American Colleges" resigned after describing President Trump's younger son as "something strange on campus." Kaya Uker stated that she was forced to resign after issuing "unusual" comments about Barron Trump (18 years old) in a Vanity Fair magazine article.
"He comes to activities and goes home," Uker told the magazine, recalling that one faculty member of New York University suggested that Trump "does not very much conform" to the historical trends of the liberal university campus in Greenwich Village in New York.
In response, a student organization supporting the Republican Party stated that Uker's statements "do not align" with their values and principles, and accepted her resignation. The organization noted that they violated a standard rule not to support a specific candidate, officially supporting Trump since the start of the Republican primaries.
"Barron Trump represents the future of the conservative movement, and we would be pleased if he joined 'the Republicans of American Colleges'," said the national president of the organization, Will Donahue, in a statement, urging an invitation "to join us in shaping the future of our party".
After her resignation, Uker insisted that her comments were taken out of context. "I did everything I could to support the conservative movement," she told the New York Post.
Participating in the last course, Uker asserts that being a Republican in New York University presents a difficult experience.
In September of this year, Barron Trump enrolled in the first year of the Stern School of Business at New York University, where tuition starts at $62,700. He successfully combined his studies with his official consulting work in his father's successful electoral campaign, and also launched a luxury real estate project last month.
Barron Trump's presence on campus, often surrounded by secret service agents, often becomes a subject of public interest, as he regularly drives three miles from Trump Tower to his school in a private SUV, closely watched by police from New York, monitoring the surrounding area.
At the time as the first lady of the USA, Melania Trump raised issues she encountered adapting to university life as one of the most recognized students in the country. "I don't think he can be an ordinary student," she told Fox News.
Projects in the business sphere. Newsweek notes that Barron Trump and his friend from middle school in Palm Beach, as well as his two-year-old brother, a congressman from the Republicans from Idaho, created a luxury real estate company. Barron's partner announced that the company was dissolved shortly after the elections to avoid media attention, but will be revived.
Next week, upon Trump's return to his obligations, at the beginning of the spring semester, Barron appeared at New York University, dressed in a blue coat and black sneakers, and, alongside the new cohort of students, the New York Post announced that "the great boy of the campus has returned".
