Chelsea Clinton defends Barron Trump after conservative website bashes his clothes

[Shrek]

Once again, Barron Trump has become the target of online criticism. And once again, political figures, celebrities and others on social media are standing up for the 11-year-old, imploring the media to keep the youngest Trump out of the negative limelight.

On Monday night, conservative news outlet the Daily Caller published a story attacking Barron for the T-shirt and shorts he wore while boarding Air Force One on Sunday. The headline read, “It’s High Time Barron Trump Starts Dressing Like He’s In the White House.”

In a barrage of angry tweets, many described the story as “mean spirited,” “shameful,” intrusive and irrelevant. The reactions shared a common understanding that the president’s children are supposed to be off-limits.

And former first daughter Chelsea Clinton, who has previously come to Barron’s defense, weighed in with a tweet: “It’s high time the media & everyone leave Barron Trump alone & let him have the private childhood he deserves.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/08/22/chelsea-clinton-defends-barron-trump-after-conservative-website-bashes-his-clothes

[haveahart]

1. It's just Breitbart and Bannon. Just ignore them.

[raven mad]

2. Why can't these jerks just let a kid be a kid?

It really started with assholes slamming Chelsea; they skipped over the next few, and started in on Malia and Sasha. Now they're savaging their own.

This kid has it hard enough with a pair of assholes for parents. Leave him be.

[marylandblue]

3. They will blame the liberals anyway

[raven mad]

4. We're a lot tougher than those closet Nazis.

Let 'em bring it on! (LOL, if THAT doesn't recall some weirdness.)


http://people.com/celebrity/president-obama-opens-up-about-daughters-malia-and-sasha-in-new-gq-interview/

[Hortensis]

16. Agree. The world's advances prove that definitively.

As for bring it on, I'm thinking the more these wolves attack inward the better. Sure wish they'd leave children alone, though.

Very unfortunately, this has gotten them a lot of attention. So we should expect more, and maybe decide not to repeat it.

[raven mad]

21. LOL! I didn't mean that in that sense -

it's early, early a.m. for me (3:54) and I'm waiting for my coffee! I meant it in the sense that our ability to outreach and to solve problems without violence is SO much better!

[Hortensis]

22. Isn't that really the same? You were just thinking of

one civilizing effect. An important one--note the root of the word.

[raven mad]

23. Of course - civil civis (latin, citizen)

And fortunately, we civilized folks can laugh!

[TexasTowelie]

6. The media was not very kind to Amy Carter either.

The children may be old enough to determine if they want a public persona and speak for a cause when they are teenagers, but younger children shouldn't be the objects of attention for the press prior to those years.

[raven mad]

7. Absolutely true. I lived in Alabama during that Presidency -

and remember thinking they should let her go home to Georgia. Fortunately, IIRC, ALL the kids from Democratic Presidents, since JFK, turned out pretty darn good! Lots of the kids from Republican Presidents were older, and could withstand the pressure a little better, but none of THEM turned out horrible.

As far as I'm concerned, if the kids are adults? Have at it - but within reason. THEY didn't run for the Presidency, their Dad (or Mom, go Hillary!) did.

[Raven123]

14. they can't help themselves. They are bullies hiding behind the barrier of the Internet

Sadly, Barron is on the receiving end of what his father usually doles out.

[raven mad]

15. Raven123, welcome to the insanity that is DU - you'll love it.

I'm hoping, once daddy goes to jail, Barron will be allowed to live a decent life. Hope is always good. Did you notice my avatar?

I'm a raven mad raven nut - our resident raven is, of course, Quoth!

[karynnj]

32. It started well before then

Amy Carter was attacked when she was about Bannon's age (and Chelsea's when she entered the White House.) I vaguely remember some criticism of the Johnson and Nixon daughters. I assume that history would show it existed earlier. (It might have increased as the media became increasingly more celebrity oriented rather than issue oriented. )

It's also not just the US. Though not exactly the same, I remember a British teen magazine I subscribed to in the 1960s bashing how Princess Ann dressed and looked contrasting with swinging London. ( I know the royal family does not govern, but it may be that as we have no "royal family", the First Family, as it is called, essentially becomes that in the media. )

It is fantastic that Chelsea, one of the few people who experienced this at a young age, is speaaking out.

[Initech]

35. Because they're just that - jerks!

Conservatives are liars, bullies, and assholes. They'll gladly step on anyone to get their way.

[RKP5637]

5. FFS, he's just a little kid!!! n/t

[Submariner]

8. Then the Daily Caller should run

“It’s High Time Racist Birther Melania Trump Got Photos of Her Tits and Crotch Off the World-Wide-Web and Stay Dressed In the White House.”

If Tucker wants etiquette then let's have some First Tramp etiquette.

[raven mad]

10. Oh heck, we could go to town on that one.

And yes, it's been Snopes!

[mwooldri]

26. Don't get me started.

Besides IMO Michelle Obama has a better pair of guns... Err... Arms! Yeah, I mean arms!

I'm not going to pit one First Lady against another but I know who I prefer. Someone with class and grace. Someone who can roll her sleeves up (figuratively speaking if not literally) and be a leader.

[raven mad]

27. Michelle literally rolled 'em up, too -

Remember the garden?

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/michelle-obama-garden-changes-white-house-229204

[mwooldri]

37. Oh yeah! :)

But why do you insist on posting pictures of Michelle's gun show?

Seriously... I can see exactly why Barack married her. We were blessed with her for 8 years in the White House. I'm sure the permanent White House staff are waiting patiently for 2021.... or earlier if we get our wishes granted.

[raven mad]

47. Absolutely

Michelle for POTUS, 2020!

[Dulcinea]

9. Leave him alone!

Barron is 11. 11-year-olds wear T-shirts & shorts. What do the kids of the Daily Caller's writers wear? SMH.

[Rob H.]

11. He's gonna be taller than either of his parents from the looks of things

The article says he's 11, but one of my cousins was just a bit taller, 6' at 12 years old, and he ultimately hit 6'6" before he finally stopped growing.

The media should leave him alone—it's not his fault his father's a colossal asshole.

[cyclonefence]

12. I agree that the children of politicians should be off-limits

but I don't think it's said often enough--if at all--that if the parents of these children did not want to risk exposing them to this kind of ugliness, they shouldn't have put their children in that position. Political parents know that there are no guarantees that their children will not be made fun of or at least criticized--and let me state again that mean comments about political kids are always--*always*--wrong--and they should be at least prepared to deal with this crap, or think again about running for public office.

There is a balance scale here: protection of my child's feelings on one side, my desire to be elected to office on the other.

[chelsea0011]

13. No media should be commenting at all about Barron. However, it would be nice

if anyone in the media questions why his father never seems to acknowledge that he is aware his child is around him.

[aka-chmeee]

18. Hope springs eternal.....

Perhaps his neglect willl allow Melania to raise him up to be something other than a typical Trump.

[Shrek]

17. What about junior?

Can I bash his clothes?

[mythology]

19. You'd be better off bashing him what what he does and says politically

[raven mad]

24. LOL! You'd be bashing me, too, except my hiking boots are better.........

And I wouldn't wear that hideous plaid on my flannel shirt........ Alaskans aren't much for fashion in the woods..........

[Initech]

34. We can bash Uday and Qusay for other things.

Like their treatment of animals for instance!

[SoCalDem]

45. Poor lil Stumpy Trumpy

[no_hypocrisy]

20. I believed that Barron's father was the one who insisted on him dressing

in a suit-and-tie (akin to Alex P. Keaton) even prior to the campaign. Even Melania put out statements that it was Barron's preference.

(In a related story, a college acquaintance of Don Jr. recounted how Trump hit his son when he opened his dorm room door and found Jr. in a Yankees' Tee and shorts. (They were going to a game.) And Trump coldly ordered his son to change into a suit-and-tie.

Let the kid be a kid and wear Tees and shorts until he has a job.

[mainstreetonce]

25. I'd like to see trump

dress casually when traveling .

Aside from a few golfing photos,he never seems to be dressed for casual occasions.

[cwydro]

28. He's been attacked right here on DU.

I remember well.

[joeybee12]

29. Barron is off limits, however, the grown up offspring

Should be called what they are at every opportunity

[Initech]

42. Extremely horrible human beings?

[joeybee12]

44. That's too nice

I d get banned if I said what I really thought of them

[Luciferous]

30. He's just a kid, they should leave him alone.

[IronLionZion]

31. Let the 11 year old kid be a kid

it's nobody's business, but of course since the conservative media is doing this they will definitely blame the liberal media instead.

[PatrickforO]

33. It is intrusive. Whoever did it needs to remember he's 11.

Attack Trump all you want, but leave the child out of it.

[videohead5]

36. What a Horrible Name

To stick the kid with.didn't his dad know kids would make fun of that name.I think I would rather be called Sue.

[jmowreader]

39. I have heard rumor he's named for one of Trump's pseudonyms

Trump used to call the media pretending to be "John Barron," and a couple of NY papers believe that's who his son is named after. I'm going to insist on my ignorance here and believe Trump named him after Clarence Barron, who started the financial newspaper Barron's.

[niyad]

41. and I thought he was named after barron hilton, whom trump would really lke to be.

[NastyRiffraff]

38. It's not Barron's fault that his father is an asshole

I'm glad to see Chelsea sticking up for him. She knows what it feels like, being a kid and being mocked by the likes of Limbaugh.

As for Junior, Eric, and Ivanka, fair game. Especially Ivanka with her office in the West Wing. At least Tiffany is keeping out of the limelight as best she can.

[niyad]

40. hey, consos, how about talking about daddy, and saying, "it's high time he started acting like

the person currently inhabiting the white house"

[DFW]

43. The Daily Caller?

What, Carlson thinks an 11 year old kid is a hobo because he doesn't wear a bow tie?

[ellie]

46. He is a little boy

People should leave him alone.