The biggest Trump kid is doing something very unusual at university.

As amusing as it may be to imagine what a little place called Barron Trump's NYU dorm room might look like, what posters does it have? Did he choose a mini fridge? – We've now learned that Barron probably doesn't live a life that involves wearing flip-flops in the communal shower. This comes from the statement of former First Lady Melania Trump, who revealed some new details about her son's college life in a recent interview with Fox News.

In a segment related to her upcoming memoir, Melania responded to a question from Ainsley Earhardt about what it's like to be an empty nester after her son Barron begins his freshman year at New York University's Stern School of Business. “I can’t say I’m an empty nester,” Melania replied, continuing to say of Barron: “It was his decision to come here, that he wanted to be in New York and study in New York and live in his house. “, and I respect that.” While Melania, as far as I can tell, hasn't specifically said that Barron lives in Trump Tower and not in a dorm, People and other news outlets have interpreted her words that way, so we'll cautiously do the same .

I guess that makes sense – after all, he grew up in a house with its own ballroom. Did he really want to live in a shabby shoebox that he had to share with a roommate? It's probably a boon for Barron's sleep quality, as a double bed would have been too hard for his extremely large body. Besides, it can't be easy being a public figure among his colleagues, flanked by security guards who make him stand out even more. NYU probably wasn't the place to be if he wanted anonymity anyway: Wired has reported that fellow students are already busy capturing him in Sasquatch-style TikToks.

We don't know much about his actual life at school yet: the Daily Mail has suggested that he skipped student fair and a few parties in the first week and generally keeps a low profile. But I also think his decision to forego the dorms is worth briefly lamenting, and not just because I'm a big one bliss Fan and enjoy imagining Donald Trump's son sitting in one of the show's huge, beautifully lit dorm rooms telling his life story into a tape recorder. (In the TV show, Felicity went to the University of New York, but that was just a fake TV version of NYU.)

No, it's worth lamenting, because for anyone lucky enough to attend a four-year boarding school, dorm life is a rite of passage. And regardless of any safety issues associated with housing a former or current first-time child on campus, it's one that every first-time college-going child has experienced recently: Malia and Sasha Obama lived in dorms at their schools , just like the Bush twins and Chelsea Clinton before them. Attempting to go further back than Clinton proved inconclusive on the question of whether descendants live in the dorm, but did provide the tidbit that Amy Carter was kicked out of Brown University. Imagine in the 80s they just kicked a president's kid out of Brown because it was as harmless as failing in school! Another time.

Anyway, back to Barron, who I suspect would have to invent a new level of failure for NYU to ever kick him out: On the basis that he's an 18-year-old boy who didn't choose, Whoever his parents are, he deserves some respect and privacy. He also deserves to be able to decide for himself what he wants to do with his life. Some might argue that he's a spoiled kid who doesn't really care about expanding his horizons Is the NYU experience to a T, and maybe so. But if we're being idealists here, everyone, especially Barron, could benefit from figuring out how to get along with a roommate, living in a diverse student body, learning to do their own laundry, and spending some time away from the world in which they grew up are, and all the other things that happen when you live in a dorm. However, the decision to forego all that and instead hide in a glittering skyscraper with your name on it, if that is indeed the case here, hits close to home for the Trump family. To outsiders it might look like a cruel institution, but hey, the same could be said of NYU's housing Lottery.

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