University student president forced to resign over controversial comments about Barron Trump on campus
Kaya Walker, the now-former president of New York University’s College Republicans chapter, has been driven out and forced to resign after her comments about the real president’s son, Barron Trump, came to light.
Ms Walker was the subject of some fierce backlash among her Republican peers after she spoke to Vanity Fair about President Trump’s 18-year-old son.
The son of the President is apparently having a strange time at college (ABC/Jose Alvarado, Jr.)
She told the magazine that Barron was ‘sort of like an oddity on campus’, adding: “He goes to class, he goes home.”
The College Republicans of America (CRA) were one of dozens to slam the student’s comments on social media, writing that although what was written was ‘unfairly framed’, they still found what Ms Walker said to be ‘inappropriate’ and in conflict with its ‘values and principles’.
The NYU College Republicans of America prompted Walker to resign (nyucollegerepublicans.org)
In a bid to extend the olive branch even further, CRA President Will Donahue publicly invited Barron to join the CRA.
He said in a statement on Twitter: “Barron Trump represents the future of the conservative movement, and we would be honored to have him join the College Republicans of America.”
Mr Donahue continued: “Strong leadership is built on resilience, courage, and the humility to rise above petty hostility – qualifies that Barron has already demonstrated.
CRA President Will Donahue has invited Barron to join the college Republican party (Instagram/@realwilldonahue)
“We invite Barron to join us in shaping the future of our party.”
The unprecedented invitation comes as the CRA broke 100 years of its own tradition by endorsing Donald Trump as president and gathering more than one million voter contracts across elections and ‘sending hundreds of our students wherever the Trump campaign needed them’.
In response to recent events with our NYU chapter, College Republicans of America formally invites Barron Trump to join us in reshaping the Republican Party. https://t.co/ydxk0gVC9x pic.twitter.com/P56fNsFqyU
— College Republicans of America (@uscollegegop) February 17, 2025
NYU College Republicans President Kaya Walker calls Barron Trump an “oddity on campus.”
“He goes to class, he goes home.”
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— AF Post (@AFpost) February 16, 2025
“Our support for President Trump is, and has been, a pillar of our organization,” the CRA statement added.
The news comes as Barron has caused quite a stir around the college’s Washington Square Park campus since he enrolled in the Stern School of Business in fall.
The NYU Arts & Science says Walker is studying a BA in International Relations and French (NYU)
While his mom, Melania Trump, said Barron was ‘very vocal’ and instrumental in the Trump campaign to victory, notably serving as his dad’s ‘podcast adviser’, other classmates say the teen is quite the ‘ladies’ man’ on campus, according to PEOPLE.
The anonymous student added: “He’s tall and handsome. A lot of people seem to think he’s pretty attractive — yes, even liberal people like him.”
The President’s son is apparently quite popular on campus (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
Despite this, the youngster reportedly doesn’t spend much time on campus or actively participate in school life.
For instance, he travels through NYU’s open campus in Lower Manhattan from Trump Tower in a procession of cars and is surrounded by Secret Service personnel to protect him.
The teen rarely speaks out publicly and one student told Vanity Fair that they once asked him to play basketball, and while he seemed keen, the student believed ‘he wasn’t really allowed to do stuff’.
Ms Walker also suggested to Vanity Fair that she was somewhat bothered by the mania following Barron on campus, arguing that he should have a more normal college experience.
