When Mike Tyson joined Donald and Melania Trump at Mar-a-Lago for dinner, he was delighted to spend time with Barron Trump, who was then age 17. Tyson may be only 5-foot-10, but he isn’t easily impressed by tall guys. Instead, he was more enthralled by Barron’s mind. ‘He’s so smart,” he said on the “PBD Podcast” in May 2023. When host Patrick Bet-David brought up Barron’s height, Tyson quickly brought the conversation back to his brains. “But did you know he’s very intelligent?” Tyson asked.
Tyson also dismissed rumors that Barron is autistic. “This guy is on top of his game, intellectually,” he said. Speculation surfaced in 2016 when YouTuber James Hunter suggested Barron might be on the spectrum in a video that was then tweeted out by Rosie O’Donnell. “Barron Trump Autistic?” she wrote in the since-deleted tweet, CBS News reported. “If so — what an amazing opportunity to bring attention to the AUTISM epidemic.” Melania Trump didn’t stay quiet on this one, threatening to take Hunter to court if he failed to take down the video. O’Donnell later apologized to Melania for her tweet.
While Tyson might not be the best person to judge someone else’s brain power, he’s not the only one who has vouched for Barron’s intelligence. “Just very, very kind and humble and empathetic and smart,” former White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham told the Daily Mail in March 2024.
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