For quite a few years, the online right has been exceedingly creepy about Barron Trump, the president’s youngest son. If they’re not fantasizing about who he might date, they’re imagining a weird multi-generational dynasty, which would presumably skip over his four older siblings. And because Barron Trump isn’t much of a public figure and rarely speaks in front of television cameras, they have felt the need to project various qualities onto him.
“MAGA is weirdly thirsty for Barron Trump,” Amanda Marcotte wrote for Salon earlier this week.
“Right-wing media is invested in portraying Barron Trump as a dashing sex symbol and international playboy. It’s so silly that many loyal MAGA posters on X fell for a tweet suggesting that Donald Trump should acquire Greenland by marrying his son off to Princess Isabella of Denmark. It was obviously a joke, but for those who have pickled their brains on the Fox News Cinematic Universe, casting the NYU student and son of a failed fashion model as an American prince made perfect sense. It’s all they’ve been hearing about this lanky teenager for months now,” Marcotte wrote.
That tweet was by an X user named “Ms. White,” who suggested a diplomatic deal involving marrying off the president’s son to the Danish princess:
The simple diplomatic solution is Barron Trump marries Princess Isabella of Denmark and Greenland is given to America as dowry payment pic.twitter.com/fhs3b6IDZG
— miss white (@cinecitta2030) January 7, 2026
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Many pointed out that the post misunderstands how dowries work:
That’s not how dowries work. How about I marry Isabella and Denmark keeps Greenland and I do weapons design for my wife’s homeland https://t.co/4A9gWUmAoQ
— Max Blanco (@itscanadamax) January 8, 2026
Meanwhile, social media users had other things to say about the proposal:
Conservatives love playing dolls with Barron https://t.co/H8UkRmgpTB
— Nikolaj🇺🇦🇵🇸 (@nikicaga) January 8, 2026
MAGA folks love royalty, so just saying—if this were actually a monarchy, Barron wouldn’t inherit anything. The crown goes to the eldest line, which would be Kai Trump. She’d be Queen, and Barron would just be Baron Barron 😂 That’s literally how royalty works. https://t.co/WMA4YMdHyR pic.twitter.com/5dlwtHwzeO
— Jayden🇺🇸VotedTrump🗽 (@JaydenRyusuke7) January 8, 2026
So the master plan is a royal wedding to “acquire” Greenland? 🇺🇸💍❄️
Amazing. Guess we should rebrand Delta Force as the Department of Matrimony, decades of elite training just to arrange dowries in Denmark.
Only America could turn global power into a Hallmark movie. https://t.co/SlQHiY6pkV pic.twitter.com/c7ZyVv2zyy
— Phantom Pain (@phantompain1984) January 8, 2026
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