"Contrary to what President Trump says, Article Two does not give him the power to do anything he wants - and I’ll just give you one example that shows you the difference between him and a king, which is the Constitution says there can be no titles of nobility, so while the president can name his son Barron, he cannot make him a baron.”
- Professor Pamela Karlan, at the Judiciary Committee
Is that pun clunky? Yes. Most puns are. Was it maybe a bit uncomfortable? Sure. But the degree to which Republican apologists for the Trump administration decided to turn it into a cause celebre (the singularly idiotic Matt Gaetz being an especially glaring example) is an indication of their desperation to latch on to any issue they can to deflect from what was laid out in the committee meetings concerning the Trump administration's actions in Ukraine.
Conversely, it's unlikely that Barron Trump knows anything about a kid named Carlos Gregorio Hernandez Vasquez. The 16-year-old Guatemalan came down with the flu in a Customs and Border Patrol detention facility and died, apparently after lying on the floor for several hours without medical treatment.
Barron Trump can count himself lucky that he actually has a family to take care of him. Carlos didn't. Regardless of the accuracy of the ProPublica report - and I have no reason to doubt it as this point - there was no widespread national outrage when he died after laying on a cell room floor unattended for over four hours.
Barron Trump, in comparison, will grow up a child of privilege, probably reach adulthood unhindered and end up avoiding the scandals his father and older siblings are currently awash in if he's lucky. All of the selective outrage over a clumsy but inoffensive pun on his name that was uttered during his teens will be something he'll easily get over. And he'll still be alive.
The other, far less famous kid wasn't so lucky.
And if you're still in a fit of pique over what Barron Trump was or wasn't called, your continued selective outrage doesn't mean a fucking thing to me.
