Former President Trump on Friday praised his 18-year-old son, Barron, as a “smart one,” adding that the former first son likes to give his dad political advice. 

“He’s seen it, he doesn’t have to hear it,” the 2024 presumptive Republican nominee told Philadelphia’s Talk Radio 1210 WPHT after the host asked if he had advised Barron on “how nasty” politics can be.

“He’s a smart one,” Trump continued. “He doesn’t have to hear much, but he’s a great guy. He’s a little on the tall side. I will tell you, he’s a tall one. But he’s a good-looking guy, and he’s really been a great student and he does like politics.”

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He added that Barron, who will be able to vote for the first time this year after turning 18 in March, likes to give him political advice. 

“It’s sort of funny, he’ll tell me sometimes, ‘Dad, this is what you have to do.’ So anyway, he’s a good guy. He’s a senior now in high school, and he’ll be going to college.”

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The 18-year-old had been selected as a delegate by the Florida Republican Party to the Republican National Convention, but declined it in a statement through his mother, Melania Trump’s office. 

US President Donald Trump and his son Barron wave as they board Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, New Jersey, on August 16, 2020. (Photo by JIM WATSON / AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images) (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images))

“While Barron is honored to have been chosen as a delegate by the Florida Republican Party, he regretfully declines to participate due to prior commitments,” the statement said.

The Republican National Convention is scheduled from July 15 through July 18 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 

President Trump with first lady Melania and son, Barron, in 2019.  (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

His older children Eric, who is delegation chair, along with Donald Jr., his fiancée Kimberly Guilfoyle, Tiffany and her husband, Michael Boulos, will serve as Florida delegates, according to The Hill. 

I always assumed the term “brain worm” was slang for a repetitive thought that hijacks one’s mind and won’t leave.

It might be a recurring bad memory, such as all three years of middle school. Or an unpleasant sight you can’t unsee, like the new Apple ultrathin iPad ad. Or worse, an invasive loop of vivid testimony from a former porn star about her unprotected sexual encounter with a former president.

But no. Brain worm is a real medical condition, and this week it went viral (in a digital sense) when it was revealed that independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he’d harbored the parasite in his head and it had consumed parts of his brain.

The stranger-than-fiction tale was revealed by the New York Times on Wednesday when it reported on testimony stemming from a contentious 2012 divorce case involving Kennedy’s second wife.

He said he had brain scans after suffering from memory loss and mental fogginess, and a doctor at New York-Presbyterian Hospital told him that a spot discovered on the scan could be caused by “a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died.” He alleged that he suffered cognitive issues as a result of the neural-nesting parasite, which in turn affected his earning potential.

It’s a bizarre claim, even from RFK Jr. The son of the late Robert F. Kennedy is renowned for spreading misinformation and conspiracies around the alleged nefarious plots of billionaire Bill Gates, “deadly” vaccines, “weaponized” medicine and spy technology powered by 5G cell towers. His unusual worldview has made him a standout candidate for a niche of the voting public who feel he’s speaking truth to power.

Overall, his tendency to search in odd corners for byzantine answers to simple questions hasn’t been a winning strategy. A recent NBC poll of five presidential candidates found President Biden at 39%, Republican nominee and former President Trump at 37% and Kennedy at 13%. Jill Stein and Cornel West got 3% and 2%, respectively. That’s enough of a margin to throw the election to one of the main contenders should it be a close call in November.

Kennedy has to find a way to get past his testimony, but it won’t be easy. The dead worm is making its way into the 2024 election cycle, and it could be a potential spoiler for the third-party candidate.

Kennedy has built a campaign around his claims of good health. The 70-year-old has presented himself to voters as a younger, stronger alternative to the oldest presidential candidates ever to run for reelection — Biden, 81, and Trump, who turns 78 next month. Judging by the sporting photos on his campaign website, Kennedy would like to be seen as the virile, athletic and spry choice for the White House.

By his own admission, he suffered from the mental lapses often attributed to the two other senior candidates — but Kennedy was in his 50s when that happened and now says the issue has since subsided and he’s recovered. In other words, the worm is dead, let’s move on.

But in a campaign year where policy debate has taken a back seat to discussions about geriatrics and jail time, it almost seems a shame to pull this highly entertaining story from the mix. It’s given us something to talk about that’s not as dire as the “what if” scenarios of another contested election … or a Trump dictatorship. And brain worms are not as uncommon as you might imagine, so there’s also the potential to turn our worries inward, away from the implosion of democracy and toward our own paranoia about personal health.

If that’s all too much, consider that Brain Worm is also the name of a heavy metal band (naturally), whose music may also embed in your mind like an unwanted guest.

Some Los Angeles parents are putting up a fight against the city’s most progressive activist groups, with violence in the school district nearly doubling since police were removed from school campuses following the riots over George Floyd’s murder in 2020.

Maria Luisa Palma, a member of the Parents Advisory Committee in Los Angeles, organized an independent petition in February calling for the return of police on school campuses as district data revealed that violent incidents rose from 2,315 in the 2018-2019 school year to 4,569 in 2022-2023.

“We’ve seen a huge increase from our kids,” Palma told Fox News Digital in an interview. “We hear constantly how there are fights and open drug use in the bathrooms. We see the proof in the data … so we have more clear information. This is out of control as we hear from our kids.”

Palma’s petition has gotten more than 2,500 signatures so far from parents from over 300 schools and all seven board districts. She said “the more, the better.” There is no cap on signatures.

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In 2021, Students Deserve, a progressive grassroots student organization advocating for the abolition of police in schools, pressured the LAUSD and the school board to divest money from the Los Angeles School District Police. 

The group argued the presence of police officers on school campuses often led to the criminalization of students, particularly those from Black and brown communities, and contributed to a hostile and intimidating environment that hindered learning.

“We want schools to divest from criminalization and policing,” the Students Deserve website states. “We want schools to invest in us as Black, Muslim, undocumented, indigenous, and queer youth in poor and working class communities of color. We follow the lead of Black Lives Matter in demanding that our schools defund the police and defend Black life.”

Students Deserve, closely partnered with Black Lives Matter-Los Angeles and the California Teacher’s Association, was successful in getting the school district to reevaluate its budget priorities and reallocate $25 million from school police to alternative support services, such as counselors, mental health professionals and restorative justice programs.

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A BLM protester projects a “defund the police” message on an Oakland Police Department wall Jan. 29, 2023.  (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Many Students Deserve representatives will appear at board meetings, Palma said, and urge members not to invest funds in the school’s police department. 

“They were the group that helped to create the situation in the first place,” Palma said. “They are the group that the board listens to, and so they continue to oppose what the parents want.”

The school board voted unanimously in February 2021 to do away with officers stationed in schools and already rejected a resolution in September 2021 that would have reinstated police.

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A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department vehicle (Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department)

“This is not a question of whether or not the district has funds to fully fund a functioning police department to safely patrol our schools and to have officers assigned on our campuses,” Palma said. “It is a political statement to appease the defund the police movement.”

The LAUSD school board is developing a new safety plan. However, the board hasn’t indicated whether the plan includes a return of police officers to schools.