Barron Trump is now 15 years old, and his mother Melania took to Twitter to post a birthday message to him, which many found insincere. Melania simply referred to her son by his initials BWT and showed a picture of some balloons with the number 15 on them.
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00:00Melania Trump doesn't have the best track record when it comes to celebrating special
00:05events online.
00:06Last month, her personalized Valentine's Day message on Twitter notably omitted husband
00:12Donald altogether, leading social media to have a field day.
00:16It was dedicated to the brave and inspirational children at the Children's Inn National Institute
00:21of Health, where I visited the past few years.
00:25FYI, now, the former first lady is coming under fire once more for a somewhat strange
00:30attempt at marking another special moment.
00:34This time, however, Melania Trump included the requisite person.
00:37Her son Barron Trump spent his 15th birthday at Mar-a-Lago, presumably in the company of
00:42his parents, according to Daily Mail.
00:45Meanwhile, Barron's half-sister Tiffany celebrated his special day by posting on the Gram a throwback
00:51photo of the two of them together, accompanied by an I love you.
00:55But when the former first lady took to Twitter to wish her son Barron a happy 15th birthday,
01:01Melania's congratulations were a little bit more unusual.
01:04Happy birthday, BWT, the young man's mother wrote alongside three heart emojis.
01:10Melania Trump posted a shot of some large 15 balloons done in dripping black lettering
01:15alongside the birthday message.
01:17Her message is nearly identical to the tweet she sent out in celebration of her son's 14th
01:22birthday.
01:23Earlier this year, she posted a picture of silver 14 balloons.
01:27Unsurprisingly, although several users took the opportunity to echo Melania's sentiments
01:32and congratulate Barron Trump on his 15 years on this planet, many others roasted the former
01:37first lady for the odd message.
01:39On Twitter, thousands of responses flooded in, emphasizing how the country continues
01:44to be split down the middle when it comes to the beleaguered former White House residents.
01:49Several Twitter users called for kindness and understanding, reasoning that this is
01:53simply a mother celebrating her son's birthday.
01:56But many couldn't pass up the opportunity to pull apart Melania Trump's birthday message.
02:01Last year, Twitter trolls criticized the then-first lady's virtual birthday card to her son on
02:06the basis that she hadn't bothered to spell out Barron's name in full.
02:10This year, while Melania continued to refer to her son using initials, critics turned
02:14against her choice of graphics.
02:17Unfortunately, the display closely resembles Melania Trump's infamous creepy Christmas
02:22display, which featured a forest of blood-red trees.
02:25In response to that holiday post, The Guardian wrote an article questioning the symbolism
02:30behind the first lady's post-bucolic hellscape.
02:34While no longer living at the White House, this time around, Melania's Twitter trolls
02:38were no more forgiving than during Christmas 2018.
02:41One user tweeted, noting,
02:43You could have found a more cheerful pic.
02:45This looks quite morbid."
02:47Another pointed to the black numbers being a bit off-putting, tweeting,
02:51"'How festive!'
02:52Nothing quite says happy birthday to a 15-year-old quite like a black balloon that appears to
02:57be dripping blood."
02:58A third Twitter user wrote,
03:00"'Damn.
03:01This is the most horrific happy birthday I've ever seen.
03:05Looks evil as f— lol.'"
03:07Since the Trumps vacated the White House, the former first lady has pivoted to focus
03:11on raising Barron.
03:13With people reporting through a source that he's the most important thing in Melania's
03:17life, perhaps she was simply wishing her son a happy birthday in her own special way.
03:22In any case, it is perhaps more noteworthy that, apart from Tiffany Trump's Instagram
03:28post, Melania was the only Trump to publicly congratulate Barron on his big day.
03:33Ivanka's Twitter and Instagram feeds have gone quiet since her father left office.
03:38As active as he is on social media, Donald Trump Jr. seems to be too busy criticizing
03:43the Biden administration to virtually reach out to Barron.
03:46Eric Trump also abstained from celebrating his half-brother's birthday, at least through
03:50his Twitter and Instagram feeds.
03:53Finally, perhaps his father would have tweeted his congratulations had he not been banned.
03:58CNN, however, reports that the former president is creating his own social media network.
04:04Within a few months, Donald Trump could plausibly post belated birthday wishes to his son, not
04:09that it would matter much if he did.
04:11Barron Trump himself isn't on social media, and if you believe his mother, that's not
04:16because she and Donald have forbidden him from creating an account.
04:20Despite TikTok campaigns, which, per Forbes, have been undertaken to, in true social media
04:25form, hashtag Save Barron, Donald Trump's youngest isn't interested in interacting virtually.
04:32Barron likes sports too much to tweet, according to Melania.