The New York Times reports the president’s 20-year-old son has been corresponding with Andrew Tate since 2024. Tate is the accused rapist and human trafficker who got airlifted out of Romanian prosecution onto a Florida tarmac because the manosphere economy demanded his continued podcasting. This is who Barron looks up to.
Of course he does. The whole administration is a manosphere group chat with nuclear codes — call women weak, call workers parasites, call due process woke, then tape a four-hour podcast about how a Bugatti makes you a man. The Tates weren’t downstream of the White House. They were always running the same con as dad, with worse lighting.
Forget Barron for a second. The disaster is the millions of teenage boys watching the whole circus and concluding this is what winning looks like — a couple of indictments and a private jet you board between court dates you’ve decided to skip. Quiet competence, the kind that doesn’t end in a deposition, is getting run out of the market by guys who couldn’t pass a background check at a Cracker Barrel.