Barron, the 18-year-old freshman at New York University (NYU), had classes scheduled for the week and was therefore unable to attend the event in Washington DC, according to the Daily Mail. As a resident of Trump Tower in New York,

Barron Trump missed his father's joint address to Congress due to classes at NYU, where he's experiencing a different kind of college life under Secret Service protection. Melania Trump, protective of Barron,

President Donald Trump vowed Tuesday to keep up his campaign of “swift and unrelenting action” in reorienting the nation’s economy, immigration and foreign policy in an unyielding address to Congress and the nation that left Democratic legislators to register their dissent with stone faces,