Barron Trump fans partly fueling rise in campus Republican Club enrollments

Donald Trump’s re-election and his hunky son’s enrollment at NYU are fueling college Republican Club membership, sources tell The Post.Students are proudly wearing their MAGA hats on campus, membership numbers have doubled and in New York, the club is fielding many enquiries about Barron Trump, a freshman at the Stern School of Business this year.“Interest was piqued initially by the fact that Barron Trump had matriculated as a student at our business school, but the election motivated a lot of people to act,” said Kaya Walker, president of NYU’s College Republican Club.“It’s more curiosity than anything.People would come up to us and ask us, ‘Oh, is Baron in the club?'”Walker says the president-elect’s son has become something of a spectacle on campus, adding: “I feel bad for him more than anything.

He’s kind of watched like a zoo animal.He’s kind of hard to miss.

He’s very tall.“People post pictures of him in class on their Instagram Story, and I think that’s really strange.”Despite the enquiries, Walker points out: “He’s not a member, but we’d love to have him.”Regardless, membership in the club has soared, according to Walker, who is a senior studying French.She has been a member of the school’s College Republicans chapter since her freshman year and over the course of her time at NYU, attendance at weekly meetings has grown from about five to 40.“This election made a lot of people more optimistic about the future of conservatism in general, I think, although [our] presence on a liberal academic campus like NYU is still generally looked down upon,” she said.Other chapters around the country tell The Post their engagement has as much as doubled this semester, following the decisive Republican win.“The amount of people who are willing to go out there and support President Trump and to be vocal about being a conservative in general is so much higher,” vice president of Penn State College Republicans Tristin Kil...