A former NBC director has sparked a backlash after suggesting that 18 is a “fair age” for former President Donald Trump’s youngest son.
Mike Sinton, a former senior executive at NBCUniversal known for his pro-liberal social media posts, celebrated Barron Trump’s birthday with a bizarre post about X on Wednesday.
“Barron Trump turns 18 today. He’s already big,” Sinton wrote while sharing a photo of him with his father.
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Mike Sinton, a former NBC executive turned liberal influencer, went viral for a now-deleted post targeting Barron Trump for being “fair game.” (Screenshot/X per @Reeseonable )
Sinton was criticized for targeting Barron, who had largely stayed out of the spotlight during and after Trump’s presidency.
Mr. Sinton deleted the post and retracted his comments, but stopped short of apologizing.
“I just posted that he is ‘fair game,’ meaning that as an adult he is ‘fair game’ for criticism from the press,” Sinton said in a statement to Newsweek. He spoke at “Someone pointing out ‘fair game’ to me could mean fair game being harmed. I don’t wish physical harm on anyone, so I’m writing this article. Withdrawn. I listen to the comments and criticisms received.”
Neither Sinton nor the Trump campaign immediately responded to Fox News Digital’s requests for comment.
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Former NBC executive Mike Sinton declared that 18-year-old Barron Trump is now “fair game,” sparking a fierce backlash. (Mike Sinton from Getty Images, Screenshot/X)
This wasn’t the first time Barron Trump was targeted by his father’s political opponents. In 2019, Pamela Karlan, a professor at Stanford University’s law school, sparked an uproar at impeachment hearings for making a joke at the expense of a then-13-year-old girl, and during her testimony she said, “There can be no titles of nobility under the Constitution.” The president can name his son Baron, but he cannot make him a baron.
In 2018, actor Peter Fonda tweeted: “I want to rip Barron Trump out of his mother’s arms and put him in a cage with pedophiles.”
In 2017, then-Saturday Night Live writer Katie Rich was suspended after she said on Twitter that Barron Trump “would be the country’s first homeschool shooter.” .
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Barron Trump, the son of former President Trump and former first lady Melania Trump, has been repeatedly targeted by his father’s political opponents. (Aron Skye, Fox News Digital)
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Furthermore, “Danger! Host Ken Jennings responded to a report about then-11-year-old Barron’s reaction to Kathy Griffin’s infamous photoshoot, which included a prop of the president’s bloody severed head, which Barron thought was real. joked at the expense of
Ken Jennings said at the time: “Barron Trump found a really long necktie on top of a pile of expired deli meat in the trash can. He thought it was his father and his little heart broke. It was,” he wrote.
Karlan, Ford, Rich and Jennings all apologized for their comments.
