Posted on 02/21/2025 5:35:47 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
Barron Trump has yet again found himself in the spotlight without asking for it. Kaya Walker, NYU College Republicans of America’s president, was forced to resign a few days ago over a comment she made about Barron being an “oddity on campus.” Her words spread across the internet and quickly went viral, and while some students seem to think the backlash has been exaggerated, Trump fans were furious.
So, I ask, is it really reasonable that a student president has to resign over such a harmless statement? And what message does it send to young people in the US that expressing your opinion, which in this case wasn’t that controversial, can lead to you losing status and respect?
In my mind, this proves all that’s wrong with the US today. It’s time to start thinking about what is important–and what kind of world we want to leave to the next generation. The political landscape in the US grows more divided by the day. Republicans blame the Democrats, Democrats blame Republicans, and in the end we’re left with few solutions and a great many problems.
A good deal of the vicious in-fighting doesn’t even concern significant issues such as taxes, health care, and the school system, but instead trivial matters such as pronouns and what the Gulf of America (the Gulf of Mexico) should be named.......
It is simple: we must do better. Nor should we take everything we disagree on as a personal insult. Yes, it’s OK to believe that Kaya Walker’s opinion wasn’t appropriate, but is it reasonable for her to lose her position at the college club for it?
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Earlier FR discussion on this subject: Barron Trump Comments Spark Resignation of NYU Republican President
She said nothing derogatory. She simply made a factual observation.
Just like when people point out there are two sexes, and then get fired? Sorry. I don’t care about them libtards.
I agree, why is this happening?
If the person did not put up a fight to retain the position, that person is not a fighter and wasted their 15 minutes of fame.
Just like when people point out there are two sexes, and then get fired? Sorry. I don’t care about them libtards.
Legitimate point, but we really don't know if she's a libtard.
She is president of a university Republican student group, after all. She deserves to be granted the benefit of the doubt, anyway,
It was a stupid comment. One would think a college student would know better. But in context I believe she meant he goes to class and leaves. He doesn’t hang around. That is an oddity to most those young adults.
She probably has no idea the security covered type of life Barron has to live. He goes back to Trump Tower and there he can have friends and socialize which is about as normal as that guy gets.
It would almost be impossible for Barron to sneak out. His very tall stature is hard to ignore.
I didnt see it in context but it seems right.
An unusually tall unusually well dressed individual with armed escorts at a college would be rather odd on most campuses.
Some Republicans are pretty stupid.
I doubt she thought it would become national news.
To Vanity Fair magazine, about someone she's never even met, and who isn't a member of the Republican Club. It's not like she was looking for her 15 minutes of fame or anything, right?
She may have not meant anything by the comment but she might have chosen her wording a bit better considering it was going to be quoted in a relatively “major” pub.
Which leads me to wonder why any self respecting Republican would subject themselves to being interviewed by the far leftist rag Vanity Fair. That’s a red flag in and of itself.
She's a senior at the college. Yes, she should have known better. Why provide a comment to a writer from Vanity Fair, about someone she's never met, and about a person who isn't even a member of the Republican Club?
Why did she even make the comment?? Dumb!!
Baron is the only child of a POTUS at NYU. That, by itself, makes him an oddity.
Barron seems like a mature young man and may well step in to calm emotions and perhaps seek to reinstate the president. It would be good for him and his Dad to do so.
So she resigned from the Club...The media makes it sound like she was President of the College...
I took it to mean that He goes to classes and skeddaddles back home, whereas other students may live on campus or nearby...so it is an oddity for a student there. If I were Barron, I would ask for the young lady be re-instated as it may have been a poor wording choice, but IMO, nothing malevolent.
Agreed.
I’m sure she has an excellent idea what Barron’s life is like. No one else on campus lives that way. That makes him an oddity. This is all a stupid fuss about nothing.
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