Former President Donald Trump’s Barron Trump has declined Florida’s offer to be a delegate to the Republican National Convention this summer and cited ‘prior committments,’ according to his mother’s office via Daily Mail.
It has been noted that Melania Trump’s office made a statement to DailyMail.com on behalf of her son.
‘While Barron is honored to have been chosen as a delegate by the Florida Republican Party, he regretfully declines to participate due to prior commitments,’ the Office of Melania Trump said.
No further details have been given. It was on Wednesday that Barron was elected as an at-large delegate to help formally nominate his father Donald Trump as the Republican presidential nominee.
It’s now not clear whether he will even attend the convention, which takes place in Milwaukee from Monday, July 15 to Thursday, July 18. Other family members – Don Jr. and his fiancee Kimberly Guilfoyle, Eric Trump, Tiffany Trump and her husband Michael Boulos – are also delegates at large for the state of Florida.
Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump, who served as a senior adviser in her father’s White House, was the only Trump child not on the delegate list. Unlike his half-siblings, Barron Trump was rarely seen during his father’s White House years, mainly at the request of his mother Melania who is known to be protective of her son.
