Barron Trump was the target of a cruel joke on Saturday Night Live this weekend, with one comedian mocking the 18-year-old’s impressive height.
The comedy sketch took aim at the 6-foot-9-inch NYU student during the first SNL show after Trump’s inauguration, with cast member James Austin Johnson portraying the president.
However, things took a darker turn when Johnson likened the President’s youngest son to the Lord of the Rings character Gandalf based on his physical appearance.
This sharp criticism comes shortly after Barron made a public appearance on his 18th birthday, following years of facing harsh treatment on social media from liberals, including some members of the mainstream media who considered him ‘fair game.’
Even after a previous Saturday Night Live writer was reprimanded for calling Barron a ‘school shooter’ at his father’s first inauguration in 2017, the comedy show decided to take another bite at the teen last night.
Johnson walked into the scene as guest star Lin-Manuel Miranda and other cast members sang and danced to a Hamilton-inspired song about America.
Just after the Tony Award-winning actor said ‘in America we will never have a king,’ Johnson interrupted him and said ‘never say never.’
Johnson then said he’s ‘in his king-era,’ before going on to speak about the 47th president’s youngest son – calling Barron his ‘new favorite son.’
Saturday Night Live took a hit at Barron Trump as cast member James Austin Johnson, who played President Donald Trump, compared the 6-foot-9-inch NYU student to Gandalf from the Lord of the Rings
The sketch comedy also said that Barron, Trump’s youngest child, was his ‘new favorite son.’ (Pictured: Barron standing tall at his father’s second inauguration on Monday)
‘But I’m back in the White House just in time, everything is back to how it was, except my new favorite son is Barron and he’s smacking his head on every door frame – oh it’s bad.
‘It’s like when Gandalf goes to Bilbo’s house,’ he added, referring to the scene when Gandalf – a massively tall character – entered Bilbo’s home in the Hobbit, a prequel to the Lord of the Rings.
Despite the sour joke, Trump fans laughed off the sly insult, with one writing defiantly: ‘Barron will be the first King of the Americas.’
Another social media user wrote: ‘Horrid impersonation and the jokes, eh not funny.’
While another added: ‘You guys really need not progressive comedy writers and a better Trump impersonator. Tired jokes, and a bad impersonation.
‘The punchlines and the voice tone is good, but the delivery, and cadence are just terrible. Or as Trump would say: SAD!’
And a fourth wrote: ‘Why is the Trump impression so incredibly painfully unfunny while trying desperately to be funny, while Trump himself is incredibly effortlessly funny almost all the time?
‘You’d get way more laughs just by cutting together and airing compilations of Trump being funny.’
In recent times, Barron has been notably described by his height, as he often towers over everyone in his family.
At the inauguration he was seen standing tall and waving at the crowd as he took a mature role at the events this time around – since his last inaugural appearance 10 years ago when his father first entered the White House in 2017.
Trump took time to applaud his son during his remarks on Monday, saying his youngest child helped him reach a younger crowd.
‘I have a very tall son,’ the 6-foot-3 Trump said in the Capital One Arena as the crowd erupted in cheers and Barron triumphantly raised his hands in the air, in a shift from the more reserved Barron the country is used to.
‘He knew the youth vote. We won the youth vote by 36 points. He was saying – “Dad, you have to go out and do this [podcast] or that one,’ Trump said.
‘We did a lot of them. He respects them all, he understood them very well.’
During the festivities, Barron was also hailed as a ‘true gentleman’ for shaking hands with former President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
The gesture of peace led fans to praise the NYU freshman as ‘a gentleman’ and ‘raised well.’
‘[Melania] brought up a true gentleman wow I’ve never seen a classier 18 year old,’ one person said.
‘It’s like when Gandalf goes to Bilbo’s house,’ he added, referring to the scene when Gandalf – a massively tall character – entered Bilbo’s home in the Hobbit (pictured), a prequel to the Lord of the Rings
During the festivities, Barron was also hailed as a ‘true gentleman’ for shaking hands with former President Joe Biden (pictured) and Vice President Kamala Harris
‘Smart young man. Knows his way around the room,’ a second person said. ‘He is very impressive & clearly, raised well,’ a third said.
During the events, Barron also gave the world a glimpse of his sense of humor as he photobombed a group picture of his three sisters.
The adorable moment was captured on video by reporter Emily Davies at The Washington Post.
It showed sisters Tiffany Trump and Ivanka Trump, along with their sister-in-law Lara Trump, posing for a group photo – but little did they know that Barron was towering over them the entire time.
Once the ladies turned around, they realized that their little brother was behind them, photobombing the group shot.
However, they seemed pleasantly surprised by the 18-year-old, as they flashed huge smiles on their faces.
Ivanka even patted her little brother on the shoulder afterwards, as her face broke out into a grin.
Barron, who just completed his first semester of college, is set to launch his own luxury real estate company with two similarly youthful business partners.
Following in his father’s entrepreneurial footsteps, Barron and his colleagues first revealed the incorporation of Trump, Fulcher & Roxburgh Capital Inc. in Wyoming last July, according to Newsweek.
Barron, who just completed his first semester of college, is set to launch his own luxury real estate company with two similarly youthful business partners. (Pictured: Barron inside the Rotunda of the U.S. Capital on Monday)
The company was dissolved after just four months following Trump’s 2024 election win.
Cameron Roxburgh, one of the business’s co-founders, said the pause was to avoid any election-related media attention as they sought to launch their venture.
Since the inauguration, many have speculated if Barron would one day follow in his father’s political footsteps and run for president.
He was even cheered on by his father’s supporters that day, as his wild standing ovation drew in far louder cheers than any other family members other than his dad.
Barely smiling, he languidly went through each of his father’s favorite rally gestures – punching the air, giving the thumbs up, pointing at random people in the crowd and putting his hand to his ear to encourage them to scream louder – while the audience roared approval.
They continued to cheer him on each time Barron’s face appeared on the giant video screens.
A large proportion of Barron Trump’s adolescence took place during his father Donald Trump’s White House tenure – and his mother Melania was credited with keeping her son out of the public eye.
But that didn’t stop liberals coming for the college student when he turned 18.
Last year, former NBC News executive Mike Sington said Barron was ‘fair game’ after the birthday that marks adulthood. He later deleted the tweet after facing harsh backlash and criticism online.
Sington told Newsweek at the time: ‘I posted he was ‘fair game’ now, meaning, as an adult, he’s ‘fair game’ for criticism from the press.
‘Someone pointed out to me ‘fair game’ could mean fair game to be harmed.
‘I don’t wish physical harm on anyone, so I took it down. I listen to the comments and criticism I receive.’
In January 2018, Barron was not yet 12 when the media was engulfed by porn star Stormy Daniels’s bombshell claims that she had an affair with Donald just four months after Barron was born.
During his presidency, Trump’s most ardent critics even resorted to criticizing the young boy as a means of attacking his father.
Previously, a Saturday Night Live writer who made a bad-taste joke about Barron Trump on Twitter apologized for her ‘inexcusable’ actions after she was suspended from the show.
On Inauguration Day 2017, Katie Rich tweeted that the ten-year-old boy would become ‘this country’s first homeschool shooter,’ but deleted it three hours later.
She then came in for an avalanche of criticism from Twitter users, who branded her ‘scum’, called for her account to be blocked, and urged NBC to fire her.
Rich wasn’t fired, but she was suspended indefinitely from working on the show after the furor failed to cool down over the weekend, an insider told Deadline Monday.
The same day, she tweeted: ‘I sincerely apologize for the insensitive tweet. I deeply regret my actions & offensive words. It was inexcusable & I’m so sorry.’
Rich left the show in 2019 and now works as a writer on various projects.
