Donald Trump reveals the four rules he has for his son Barron: ‘That last one I don’t say too strongly’

Don­ald Trump recent­ly revealed his ‘for­mu­la for good par­ent­ing’ as he dis­closed the four rules he has set for his chil­dren, includ­ing his 19-year-old son Bar­ron (Get­ty Images)

WASHINGTON, DC: Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump nev­er shies away from singing prais­es for his youngest and tallest son, Bar­ron, whom he shares with his wife, Mela­nia.

The 78-year-old pres­i­dent recent­ly revealed his ‘for­mu­la for good par­ent­ing’ as he dis­closed the four rules he has set for his chil­dren, includ­ing his 19-year-old son, who just fin­ished his fresh­man year at New York Uni­ver­si­ty.

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump deliv­ers remarks before sign­ing the Lak­en Riley Act, the first piece of leg­is­la­tion passed dur­ing his sec­ond term in office, in the East Room of the White House on Jan­u­ary 29, 2025 in Wash­ing­ton, DC (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump reveals the four rules he set up for his children

The com­man­der-in-chief recent­ly sat down with New York Post colum­nist Miran­da Devine for the first episode of the outlet’s ‘Pod Force One’ pod­cast, where they cov­ered a wide range of top­ics from fam­i­ly to the protests in Los Ange­les and his recent clash with Elon Musk.

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump and his wife Mela­nia Trump along with their son Bar­ron Trump and Ivan­ka Trump, Eric Trump and Don­ald Trump Jr. and their chil­dren watch as the cas­ket of Ivana Trump is put in a hearse out­side of St. Vin­cent Fer­rer Roman Catholic Church dur­ing her funer­al on July 20, 2022 in New York City (Get­ty Images)

Dur­ing the con­ver­sa­tion, Trump also revealed the four rules he had set up for his chil­dren. “I always said the same thing. I said: no drugs, no alco­hol, no cig­a­rettes,” he told Devine, accord­ing to the Dai­ly Mail.

“I also would say don’t get tat­toos, but I don’t say it too strong­ly, because a lot of peo­ple have got­ten tat­toos, and that’s what they choose to do,” he con­tin­ued.

Trump has made a point of not drink­ing as his old­er broth­er, Fred Trump Jr, strug­gled with alco­holism and died at the age of 42.

Mem­bers of the Trump fam­i­ly watch from the stage as bal­loons fall after Repub­li­can pres­i­den­tial nom­i­nee, Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump offi­cial­ly accept­ed the Repub­li­can pres­i­den­tial nom­i­na­tion on the fourth day of the Repub­li­can Nation­al Con­ven­tion at the Fis­erv Forum on July 18, 2024 in Mil­wau­kee, Wis­con­sin (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump reveals the somber reason behind Barron’s college pick

At one point in the pod­cast, Don­ald Trump revealed the rea­son behind Barron’s deci­sion to opt for New York Uni­ver­si­ty, unlike his sib­lings.

Trump attend­ed the Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia as a stu­dent, as did his son, Don­ald Trump Jr.

Bar­ron Trump departs from the East Front of the Unit­ed States Capi­tol after the Inau­gu­ra­tion of Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump on Jan­u­ary 20, 2025 in Wash­ing­ton, DC. Don­ald Trump takes office for his sec­ond term as the 47th pres­i­dent of the Unit­ed States (Chris Kle­po­nis — Pool/Getty Images)

Mean­while, the pres­i­den­t’s eldest daugh­ter, Ivan­ka Trump, attend­ed George­town Uni­ver­si­ty in Wash­ing­ton, DC, before mov­ing to the Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia.

“He just want­ed to be there,” Trump said, adding, “He want­ed to be there because his grand­moth­er was gonna stay and wait for him in an apart­ment near the school. And she passed away.”

Mela­ni­a’s moth­er, Amal­i­ja Knavs, died in Jan­u­ary 2024 at the age of 78.

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump arrives to speak with first lady Mela­nia Trump and their son Bar­ron Trump dur­ing an elec­tion night event at the Palm Beach Con­ven­tion Cen­ter on Novem­ber 6, 2024, in West Palm Beach, Flori­da (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

“She was fan­tas­tic. Melania’s moth­er was a fan­tas­tic woman. And Mela­nia is a fan­tas­tic moth­er, by the way. She loves Baron. He’s very tall and he’s a good-look­ing guy,” he fur­ther explained.

The pres­i­dent also revealed that when Bar­ron joined NYU as a fresh­man lat­er in the year, he warned his son ‘a lit­tle bit’ about ‘all the lefty pro­fes­sors’ at the school.

Donald Trump insists all his children have future in politics

Lat­er in the pod­cast, Devine asked Trump if his son, Trump Jr, might run for pres­i­dent him­self.

“I don’t know. I mean I don’t know. I think all of them prob­a­bly have a future in pol­i­tics, frankly. And Don is very good. A good guy. He’s an out­doors­man,” he replied, accord­ing to Uni­lad.

Trump’s reluc­tance to offer a defin­i­tive ‘yes’ could be attrib­uted to Trump Jr express­ly not­ing on his own X account that “although I’ll nev­er com­plete­ly rule it out in the future, I have ZERO inter­est in run­ning for office in [20]28 or any­time near.”

Pres­i­dent Trump instead sug­gest­ed that all of his chil­dren could have a future in pol­i­tics and boast­ed that they “were born very smart” dur­ing the inter­view.

He added, “Eric has done a fan­tas­tic job. Bar­ron is great. He is very tall and good. Ivan­ka, you know Ivan­ka? She’s so great. And Tiffany has done real­ly well. She went to a great law school and did very well. Always a good stu­dent.”