An old CNN clip of President-elect Donald Trump's son Barron is making the rounds on the internet after surprising people with the childhood accent Barron seemed to have had.
The clip, which came from a 2010 episode of Larry King Live, shows a four-year-old Barron talking with his mother Melania Trump in heavily-accented English.
But not in his father's New York accent—rather a childlike duplicate of Melania's Slovenian accent.
Barron Trump is now an 18-year-old—and extremely tall—college freshman at New York University.
But in the resurfaced clip, he's a typical four-year-old, albeit one wearing a pint-size business suit of sorts. Leaping around like a kid and talking with his mom about going to school that day.
The thick accent has led to many theories—namely that it's an indication that Barron spent pretty much his entire childhood being ignored by his father and cared for solely by Melania.
In a longer clip from Larry King Live, Melania basically confirms this to be true, in fact.
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But one moment in particular has captured the internet's imagination far more strongly: It's when Barron picks up his tiny kid-size briefcase and says in his Slovenian accent, "I like my suitcase."
A simple phrase, but the way Barron says it, not just with his accent but with an almost desperate exuberance, renders it as "I LIKE MY SOOTCASE," heavy on the "oo" sound—and the internet can't stop laughing about it.
So much so, in fact, that it has created a new meme on social media, with people using the phrase for all kinds of absurd situations, or sometimes just by itself.
i like my SOOTcase 💅🏻😩
— Shelby Young (@shelbyhyoung.bsky.social) November 16, 2024 at 11:42 PM
i like my sootcase
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— 🦝 (@raccoonsss.bsky.social) November 19, 2024 at 11:47 AM
playing a fun game on tiktok where i try to watch as many videos of barron trump saying "i like my sootcase" i can without the algorithm starting to think im conservative
— brooke (@disneyd23.bsky.social) November 18, 2024 at 11:57 PM
“i like my sootcase” and “you will have lanch” will forever be in my rotation now.
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— ev (@evmm.bsky.social) November 18, 2024 at 1:55 PM
So there you have it: Barron Trump's first viral moment. Surely one of many.