President Donald Trump’s 19-year-old son Barron Trump has been tapped for a top position with one social media titan.
And insiders say the younger Trump is in the running for the job because his dad owes him one — big time.
According to Donald Trump’s former social media manager, Jake Advent, Barron Trump is being pitched for a top job at TikTok.
“I’m hopeful President Trump will consider appointing his son Barron and maybe other young Americans to TikTok’s board to help ensure it remains an app young people want to keep using,” Advent told the Daily Mail.
Barron Trump was instrumental in helping his father’s 2024 presidential campaign reach younger audiences, and many credit him for helping his father win the race in a landslide.
Donald Trump credited his son for guiding him on reaching a younger audience and helping him win the presidential last November.
Barron’s mother, first lady Melania Trump, previously said her son was instrumental because he “knows his generation.”
The president made his own triumphant return to TikTok on Monday after a nearly year away. UFC CEO Dana White introduced Trump in his debut video on the app in June 2024. His debut generated over 180 million views.
“To all of those young people of TikTok, I saved TikTok, so you owe me big,” Trump said in a video post.
“Now, you’re looking at me in the Oval Office, and someday one of you are gonna be sitting right at this desk, and you’re gonna be doing a great job also.”
President Trump signed an executive order last month approving the transfer of the video platform’s US operations to a consortium of American-based investors after speaking with Chinese President Xi Jinping. TikTok is owned by Chinese firm ByteDance.
Vice President JD Vance said that under the new deal, TikTok’s algorithm will be controlled by the American investors.
Former President Joe Biden signed bipartisan legislation in April 2024 that gave ByteDance the option of reducing its stake in TikTok to 20% or facing a blanket ban inside the United States.
Both Biden and Trump delayed implementation of the ban — with Trump arguing it would increase the power of US social media giants to censor political content.
The sale has yet to be finalized, but Trump’s order requires a majority of the investors to be American, in addition to being operated in the U.S., or the app will be banned in the states.
Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, the second-richest person in the world with a net worth of nearly $350 billion, and venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, worth $2 billion, could be taking the Chinese-owned app into U.S. hands along with private equity firm Silver Lake.
Barron, who has just moved back into the White House while he attends classes at New York University’s DC campus in the nation’s capital, has yet to comment on the proposition at the time of publication.