Being a presidential son, Barron Trump, President Donald Trump’s 11-year-old son, has been attracting a lot of attention lately. It seems that people are very curious about the President’s only child with First Lady Melania considering that with his recent move to the White House, he is the first boy to live in the presidential residence for more than 50 years. As if being the First Son is not enough, he is a member of the Trump business empire after all, with its association with wealth, prestige, and glamor.

Living In The White House Could Be A Downgrade

Even before Donald Trump became the 45th President of the United States, Baron Trump was living a life of privilege. It is just one of the perks when your father happens to be a real estate mogul who owns the ultra-luxurious Trump Tower.

In fact, there are reports stating that moving into the White House might be considered a downgrade for Barron Trump. According to Town&Country, the First Lady revealed that her son has an entire floor of the Trump Tower for himself. With that in mind, it is easier to see how he may start thinking his spacious room in the White House to be a bit cramped.

The First Boy To Live In The White House In Half A Century

Interestingly, Barron is the first boy to live in the White House in a long time. In fact, the most recent First Son prior to him was John F Kennedy Jr. and that happened more than 50 years ago.

The immediate three presidents prior to Donald Trump – Obama, Bush, and Clinton – only have daughters. While the other presidents since Kennedy have male children, they were already adults when their fathers were elected to office and all opted to live outside the White House.

Barron Trump’s height is also another favorite subject of conversation. Based on recent photos taken with his dad Donald Trump and mom Melania, it is easy to see that the eleven-year-old is already almost as tall as his dad.

According to Heavy, there is no official data on how tall Barron Trump is at the moment. However, recent photos with his dad and mom suggest that he is already nearing six feet tall.

President Donald Trump is reported to be six-feet-two-inches while the First Lady Melania Trump is five-foot-eleven without the heels. Going by the photos, Barron is seen to be a little shorter than his father and is already as tall as his mom. That makes Barron’s height around five-foot-eleven-inches with some estimates saying that he may be already six feet tall.

According to the Sun, Barron Trump shares so many similarities with his dad that Melania calls him “Little Donald.”

Another interesting Barron Trump fact is that he is also fluent in Slovenian and talks to his mother and grandparents in the language. There was also that time when his picture went viral when Barron was caught stifling a yawn during his dad’s inaugural speech. First Son or not, he is just a kid after all.</s>Donald Trump could face new legal action over his controversial Trump University venture, after a new suit was filed in federal court.

In November, days after he won the presidency, Trump settled three class action fraud lawsuits over Trump University, for $25m. More than 6,000 people were listed in the suits, claiming they were lured into paying up to $35,000 to learn the secrets of Trump’s business success.

Now, one member of the class action lawsuits, Sherri Simpson, has filed an appeal against the settlement, claiming she was not allowed to exercise her right to “opt out” of the multimillion-dollar deal.

If the ninth circuit court of appeals – one of two courts that ruled against Trump’s travel ban in June – decides in her favor, Simpson intends to sue the president independently for fraud, which she hopes could see him give evidence before a jury.

“I believed in a jury trial,” Simpson told the Guardian. “It looked like we had such a strong case for trial after seven years of litigation.”

Simpson, a bankruptcy attorney who took courses at Trump University in 2010, had planned to sue on her own before learning of, and joining, one of the three class action suits.

In her appeal, her lawyers allege that she was told she would be able to be excluded from a settlement if she wished. Instead, Simpson says, she was not given forewarning of the $25m settlement with the president-elect – only learning of it from the media – and was not given a chance to withdraw.

“We’re asking them to rule that there is no authority to approve a settlement in this case, because it did not allow the class members to opt out – to say yes or no to the settlement,” said Gary B Friedman, representing Simpson with fellow attorney Deepak Gupta.

Trump University, a for-profit company that was not an accredited university or college, launched in 2005 with Trump promising that “students” would be mentored by hand-picked staff.

A Trump University “playbook” released in May 2016 showed that one of the pledges to enrollees read: “Only doers get rich. I know that in these three packed days, you will learn everything to make a million dollars within the next 12 months.”

The fraud lawsuits alleged that students learnt nothing of the sort, despite being encouraged to pay tens of thousands of dollars to attend weekend seminars.

Simpson, who lives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, said she received a leaflet through the mail in 2010 and eventually ended up spending $19,000 on tuition.

“What I found from the very beginning was that it was just all upsell,” she said. “It was all a scam. It turned out it was a lot of cheerleading for Donald Trump and his successes.”

Friedman said the ninth circuit had granted “expedited treatment” of Simpson’s appeal, with a verdict expected in late summer or early fall. If the court rules that Simpson should not have been included in the settlement, she will be free to pursue her own lawsuit against Trump. She has said she will not settle out of court.

The $25m payout reached in 2016 was hailed as a victory by lawyers including New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman, who brought one of the three lawsuits involved. It is unclear what would happen to the 6,000 people involved in the settlement if Simpson were to win her appeal.

Trump University – and the associated lawsuits – became an issue in the Republican primaries and the presidential campaign, with opponents releasing ads which featured some disgruntled former students.

In May 2016 a federal judge, Gonzalo Curiel, made public more than 400 “playbooks”, which showed how staff were instructed to get people to accrue credit card debt to pay for tuition fees, and ordered to target financial weaknesses in a bid to sell further courses.

Trump, who launched his campaign by accusing Mexico of sending “rapists” to the US, attacked Curiel over the release.

“I have a judge who is a hater of Donald Trump,” Trump said at a rally. “A hater. He’s a hater. His name is Gonzalo Curiel. And he is not doing the right thing ... [He] happens to be, we believe, Mexican.”

A spokesperson for Trump did not return a request for comment.</s>WALL, N.J. (AP) - President Donald Trump is weighing in on a New Jersey school district where yearbooks were altered to remove three students' references to him.

The Asbury Park Press reports (http://on.app.com/2rTzZVb ) Trump posted a letter to his Facebook page Monday, thanking Wall High School students Montana and Wyatt Dobrovich-Fago, who previously reported their entries were altered to remove references to Trump.

The letter itself was written by Michael Glassner, the executive director of Trump's campaign. He sent it to the siblings along with a care package of campaign memorabilia.

Superintendent Cheryl Dyer says the alteration of Wyatt's photo was unintentional, and that it's unclear if Montana's quotation of Trump was intentionally left out.

Dyer says another student had his Trump T-shirt digitally painted a nondescript black in an "intentional" alteration.</s>WALL, N.J. (AP) — President Donald Trump is weighing in on a New Jersey high school that had yearbooks altered to remove three students’ references to him.

The Asbury Park Press reports (http://on.app.com/2rTzZVb ) Trump posted a letter to his Facebook page Monday, thanking Wall High School students Montana and Wyatt Dobrovich-Fago, who previously reported their entries were altered to remove references to Trump.

The letter itself was written by Michael Glassner, the executive director of Trump’s campaign. He sent it to the siblings along with a care package of campaign memorabilia.

Superintendent Cheryl Dyer ruled the alteration of Wyatt’s photo was unintentional, and said it wasn’t clear if Montana’s quotation of Trump was intentionally left out.

Dyer says another student, junior Grant Berardo, had his Trump T-shirt digitally painted a nondescript black in an “intentional” alteration.</s>Donald Trump is known for his love of a good Twitter rant, even now he is President of the United States - but he was strangely silent following the recent terror attack in Finsbury Park.

The billionaire businessman has taken to Twitter to condemn - and in many cases court controversy over - attacks, including those on Westminster, Manchester and London Bridge.

In all those attacks, the perpetrators were Muslims, albeit subscribing to a version of Islam which most normal Muslims would not recognise.

And yet when Muslims were attacked outside a mosque in north London in the early hours of Monday, Trump was silent. Yes, it’s been over 36 hours now and the US president has sent a number of tweets.

Let’s take a look at his track record...

Perpetrator: Khalid Masood, a Muslim convert who was claimed to be a “soldier of the Islamic State” by the terror group

Perpetrator: Salman Ramadan Abedi, who was in contact with IS but is believed to have acted alone

Did Trump tweet about the attack? You bet. We’ll let the tweets speak for themselves - strap in folks...

We need to be smart, vigilant and tough. We need the courts to give us back our rights. We need the Travel Ban as an extra level of safety! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 3, 2017

Whatever the United States can do to help out in London and the U. K., we will be there - WE ARE WITH YOU. GOD BLESS! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 3, 2017

We must stop being politically correct and get down to the business of security for our people. If we don't get smart it will only get worse — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 4, 2017

Pathetic excuse by London Mayor Sadiq Khan who had to think fast on his "no reason to be alarmed" statement. MSM is working hard to sell it! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 5, 2017

Suspect: Named by media as Darren Osborne, from Cardiff

Did Trump tweet about the attack? We’re still waiting...</s>WALL, N.J. — President Donald Trump is weighing in on a New Jersey school district where yearbooks were altered to remove three students' references to him.

The Asbury Park Press reports Trump posted a letter to his Facebook page Monday, thanking Wall High School students Montana and Wyatt Dobrovich-Fago, who previously reported their entries were altered to remove references to Trump.

The letter itself was written by Michael Glassner, the executive director of Trump's campaign. He sent it to the siblings along with a care package of campaign memorabilia.

Superintendent Cheryl Dyer says the alteration of Wyatt's photo was unintentional, and that it's unclear if Montana's quotation of Trump was intentionally left out.

Dyer says another student had his Trump T-shirt digitally painted a nondescript black in an "intentional" alteration.</s>WALL, N.J. (AP) — President Donald Trump is weighing in on a New Jersey high school that had yearbooks altered to remove three students’ references to him.

The Asbury Park Press reports (http://on.app.com/2rTzZVb ) Trump posted a letter to his Facebook page Monday, thanking Wall High School students Montana and Wyatt Dobrovich-Fago, who previously reported their entries were altered to remove references to Trump.

The letter itself was written by Michael Glassner, the executive director of Trump’s campaign. He sent it to the siblings along with a care package of campaign memorabilia.

Superintendent Cheryl Dyer ruled the alteration of Wyatt’s photo was unintentional, and said it wasn’t clear if Montana’s quotation of Trump was intentionally left out.

Dyer says another student, junior Grant Berardo, had his Trump T-shirt digitally painted a nondescript black in an “intentional” alteration.</s>James Corden says he’s sent nearly 300 copies of Philadelphia to President Trump in hopes it will educate him about HIV/AIDS.

Corden kicked off Tuesday’s Late Late Show with the announcement, but began by scolding media for spending so much time talking about Russian interference in the country’s presidential election and possible Trump campaign members’ collusion in that effort, as well as other Trump-related matters.

“If you watched news lately, or this show every night, any show, you’d have heard a lot about Donald Trump,” Corden said. “You hear about his business conflicts, his tweets, Russian investigation, more Russian investigation. Seriously, a lot of talk about this Russian investigation.

Corden said he “gets” why this has dominated the news cycle. According to Corden, “It’s because Dems hope this is what gets Donald Trump impeached” and some Republicans secretly hope same.

In the “bluster and all the noise,” Corden said of the Russia investigation coverage, “it’s important to remember he is still the President of the United States and it is still his job to take action on issues.”

Which brought Corden to his point. He was really upset to learn six of 18 members of the president’s advisory on HIV and AIDS resigned last week. Trump has shown he does not care about HIV and AIDS “by taking down the Office of National AIDS policy website the day he took office,” the late-night host added.

Trump has refused to appoint anybody to lead that office, and proposed changes to healthcare that, if it becomes law, would “devastate all marginalized Americans living with HIV/AIDS,” Corden added.

Having himself first become aware of, and “started to care about,” HIV through watching the movie Philadelphia, Corden concluded, “maybe Donald Trump doesn’t care because he’s never seen Philadelphia.”

To that end, Corden and staff bought up every copy they could get their hands on, via Amazon and Barnes & Noble, totaling 297 copies. A call to the White House about sending the copies there did not go well, so Corden sent them to Mar-a-Lago.

He hopes Trump watches Philadelphia and “realizes that HIV and AIDS are something you, or any President of the United States, or any world leader can never afford to ignore.”

Corden then directed his viewers to Lamdalegal.org, asking them to support the organization and get educated about HIV and AIDS advocacy. And, if you have a spare copy of Philadelphia lying around, Corden suggested sending to Trump’s Florida “White House.”

Now, can someone please send Corden a couple copies of All The President’s Men?</s>Donald Trump promised to get Congress to repeal Obamacare, enact tax reform, pass a $1 trillion infrastructure plan, impose tariffs on outsourcers, subsidize child care and fund a border wall with Mexico — all in the first 100 days of his presidency. Not surprisingly, none of those things happened. What is surprising is that little of this agenda has even been submitted by the president to Congress: no tax bill, no infrastructure bill, no anti-outsourcing bill, no child-care bill and no legislation to build the wall. Why?

The explanation goes beyond the usual factors that bedevil any new president — overpromising on the pace of action, underpreparing for the challenges of office, trouble in staffing up. These do play some part in Trump's achingly slow start. But Trump's failure to get key agenda items to the starting line reflects more fundamental problems in policymaking — problems that will persist even after this administration is fully staffed and acclimated.

First, policymaking at the White House is hard and tedious work that involves digesting reams of paper, weighing difficult trade-offs and enduring hours of meetings. There is little evidence Trump has any interest in this sort of endeavor. The campaign anecdote that Ohio Gov. John Kasich, R, was offered a vice presidency with control over domestic and foreign policy, in a White House where Trump would be responsible only for "making America great again," speaks volumes.

Even an "art of the deal" president cannot make policy if he is unaware of key parts of his proposals, as he was shown to be on the question of preexisting conditions in health-care reform or whether he had approved the Keystone XL pipeline without a requirement that it would be built using U.S. steel. In a constantly leaking White House, it is revealing that there have been no stories about Trump making, say, a hard choice on tax reform after a long review session. Trump's most memorable comment about policy was revelatory: "Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated."

Second, Trump's career reflects an inconsistency and expediency about ideas that indicate he will never take policymaking seriously. Yes, all political leaders shift their views over time, some dramatically. But no major figure in either party ever has been as helter-skelter as Trump. He has embraced government-funded universal health care, supported late-term abortions and proposed the largest tax hike in history — and the exact opposite of all of these things, as well — to achieve his political objectives at a given moment.

While running for president, Trump said that the minimum wage was "too high," that it should not change and that it "has to go up." On a single day of the 2016 campaign, he broadcast three stances on his core campaign issue — immigration policy. I say this not to relitigate a campaign charge about Trump and flip-flopping, but rather to suggest that, absent specific direction from the president at each juncture in the process, his team is probably hard-pressed to divine the Trump policy approach to any question, beyond political expediency. This doubtlessly lengthens the process as underlings wrestle over several possible approaches. Policymaking is hard if one cannot take the president literally; impossible if his ideas cannot be taken seriously.

Finally, the Trump policy process must surely be gridlocked because — to the extent there is any indication of what Trumpism is as a policy philosophy — it is a jumble of populist slogans and corporatist concessions totally at war with itself. The Trump plan includes a promise to raise taxes on corporations that outsource and a pledge to cut taxes on those same corporations to a record low. Trump has embraced a Democratic plan to restore limits on Wall Street that were removed 20 years ago — while advancing a Republican plan to strip away limits imposed after the 2008 financial crisis. He has called for $1 trillion in new infrastructure spending but proposed a budget without a penny of net new spending or borrowing. He promised voters they would get better health-care coverage, then held a party in the White House Rose Garden for a House bill that would allow insurance companies to slash benefits — a bill that he characterized as "mean" the following month. Every campaign agenda contains some half-zebras, half-elephants — but the Trump platform designed to appeal to disaffected manufacturing workers who resent globalization, and disaffected globalists who resent taxation and regulation, is especially problematic in implementation.

When Trump hit the 100-day mark with no major legislative wins, his allies told the world to give him time. But time is not Trump's trouble: His lack of interest in policymaking and an incoherent agenda are the obstacles. Congress can't dispose of plans when the president can't even get his act together to propose them.

Ronald A. Klain served as a senior White House aide to presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton and was a senior adviser to Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign.

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Paul Ryan can't wait to cut taxes on the rich and corporations</s>Image copyright AFP Image caption Donald Trump's proposed wall on the US-Mexico border was a campaign rallying cry

US President Donald Trump has told supporters that his proposed wall along the border with Mexico could have solar panels fixed to it.

Addressing a rally in Iowa, he said the panels would provide cheap energy and help to pay for the controversial wall.

He suggested the plan was his own, saying: "Pretty good imagination, right? Good? My idea."

However, solar panels have been included in designs for the wall submitted by companies.

During his campaign, Mr Trump pledged to build a wall along the Mexican border to stop illegal immigration and drug trafficking.

He insisted he would make Mexico foot the bill, but President Enrique Peña Nieto has dismissed the idea.

Mr Trump told cheering supporters at a campaign-style rally in Cedar Rapids on Wednesday that he would "give you an idea that nobody has heard about yet".

"We're thinking of something that's unique, we're talking about the southern border, lots of sun, lots of heat. We're thinking about building the wall as a solar wall, so it creates energy and pays for itself. And this way, Mexico will have to pay much less money, and that's good, right?"

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Trump : "Pretty good imagination right? Good? My idea."

He added: "Solar wall, panels, beautiful. I mean actually think of it, the higher it goes the more valuable it is. Pretty good imagination right? Good? My idea."

More than 200 companies are believed to have responded to an invitation from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to submit designs for the wall. Among them was one from Gleason Partners in Las Vegas that proposed a wall of steel, cement and solar panels.

The DHS told the BBC that 20 companies had been shortlisted.

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption The impact of the wall on wildlife: Victoria Gill joins scientists working in the Sonoran Desert

In April, US media reported that President Trump had raised the idea with Republican Congressional leaders in talks at the White House.

The idea of a solar panelled wall was also proposed in an article by an environmentalist and an academic last year in the Huffington Post and another article for the Wall Street Journal by two academics in March.
United States President Donald Trump plans on adding solar panels to his proposed border wall with Mexico.