Barron Trump is reportedly planning to follow in dad Donald‘s footsteps by launching his own real estate business that he is understood to have already incorporated, before dissolving it shortly after his father won the 2024 presidential election.
According to Newsweek, the 18-year-old, who is a freshman at New York University’s Stern School of Business, filed paperwork in Wyoming to incorporate his real estate venture, named Trump, Fulcher & Roxburgh Capital Inc., on July 14, 2024, listing the company’s principal address as his father’s infamous Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.
Barron lived at the Palm Beach spread with his father and mother, Melania Trump, for several years after Donald’s first presidency ended, before heading off to New York for college in the fall of 2024. During his time living in Palm Beach, he attended the prestigious $40,000-a-year Oxbridge Academy, which is where he met one of his company co-founders, Cameron Roxburgh.
That same firm was dissolved on Nov. 14 of that same year, days after Donald claimed victory over Vice President Kamala Harris in the race for the White House.
However, Roxburgh, who is due to graduate from high school in May 2025, per his LinkedIn profile, told the outlet there are already plans to “relaunch it” in the spring, after President-elect Trump has taken office.
Roxburgh added that the team made the decision to shut down the company in order to avoid media scrutiny during the election.
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When it relaunches, he said that the company will focus on high-end real estate development with properties and golf courses in Utah, Arizona, and Idaho, adding that he and Barron will be working with a third partner—luxury real estate expert, Carter Fulcher.
And it seems as though Barron’s business venture has already recieved his father’s seal of approval, with Roxburgh telling Newsweek that Trump has already offered his son “private advice,” while noting that the President-elect has not provided any funding for the project. The founding trio do hope that their company will one day be incorporated as a subsidiary of the Trump Organization, however.
Interestingly, the company has another political tie in the form of Fulcher, whose family already owns a luxury real estate business—The Fulcher Organization in Idaho. According to Roxburgh, Fulcher’s cousin is Idaho Congressman Russ Fulcher, although he made clear that the Republican politician is not involved in the trio’s venture.
Still, there are plenty of similarities between the proposed business and the global real estate empire that Donald himself joined in 1968, before rebranding it with his own name in the early 1970s.
Today, the Trump Organization owns and operates dozens of luxury properties around the world, including multiple residential and commercial real estate investments, as well as hotels and high-end golf courses.
Although Barron is not thought to have ever had an official role at the Trump Organization, all three of his older siblings—Don Jr., Ivanka, and Eric—have all held positions in the company over the years.
Currently, Eric and Don Jr. both serve as executive vice presidents of the organization, which they were tasked with overseeing when Donald took office the first time, while Ivanka opted to take up a role inside his administration.
But while Barron has not been employed in his father’s company, he did play an integral role in his latest presidential campaign.
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According to Melania, the teenager was “very vocal” in advising his father on which people he needed to “contact and talk to,” with the incoming first lady noting to Fox News that he “brought in so many young people” to vote for and aid his father’s quest for the White House.
Those sentiments were echoed by Donald’s senior adviser, Jason Miller, who said that Barron was instrumental in helping his father to focus on specific podcast interviews while on the campaign trail, urging him to sit down with popular hosts like Joe Rogan, Theo Von, and Logan Paul in a bid to widen his potential voting pool.
“Barron has been very involved in selecting or recommending, I should say, a number of the podcasts that we should do,” Miller told Sky News. “I got to tell you, hats off to the young man. Every single recommendation he’s had has turned out to be absolute ratings gold that’s broken the internet. He’s done a great job.”
For much of his father’s first presidency, Barron very much remained behind the scenes, making just a handful of public appearances alongside his parents during those four years. After Donald left the White House and the family relocated to Mar-a-Lago, he remained very much off the radar—although he was still the subject of much public scrutiny and speculation.
Now, it seems he is ready to be a bit more public-facing, albeit while still trying to enjoy some semblance of a private life at college.
It’s not known whether Barron will continue as a student at NYU when his new business venture launches; however, his mother did admit in her December interview that she didn’t believe her son would ever be able to enjoy a traditional experience at college.
“I don’t think it’s possible for him to be a normal student,” she said, adding that she advised her son not to try and compare himself to others, telling him: “This is your road, this is your life.”
