Barron Trump is significantly taller than Donald and Melania, but the president has disclosed the ‘real’ reason for his huge height.

During Trump’s inauguration earlier this week (20 January), which was attended by a lot of celebrities, the president briefly turned the limelight on his youngest child Barron.

The 18-year-old was there during his father’s election campaign and apparently contributed significantly to the Republicans’ victory.

According to Trump, Barron assisted them in winning the ‘young vote’ by instructing the 78-year-old on which podcasts to appear as a guest on.

Throughout his campaign, Trump spoke openly on the Joe Rogan Experience and Logan Paul’s Impaulsive, and he was very active on TikTok.

However, viewers couldn’t help but note the significant height gap between him and his kid, despite Trump’s own height of 6’3″.

His teen kid visibly over him, leaving people to wonder, first, about the height disparity between the two, and second, how he became so massive.

“How frickin’ tall is Barron Trump???” one X user penned. “His father is 6’3″ and the kid towers over him! There’s gotta be giants’ blood in that family.”

Another asked: “How the hell is Barron trump sooo tall.”

“It really is insane how tall Barron Trump is!” declared a final X user.

Barron is reputedly 6 feet 7 inches tall, a full four inches taller than his father.

And, according to the Irish Star, there is a very evident reason for his enormous stature.

According to the site, Barron’s height is attributable to his childhood nutrition, which was made by his grandmother, Melania’s late mother, Amalia Knavs.

Trump admitted on the Impaulsive podcast: “That’s how he got so tall; he only ate her food.

“I said you’re gonna be a basketball player. He said, well, ‘I like soccer, Dad, actually’. I thought… ‘at your height, I like basketball better’, but you can’t talk them into everything.”

However, he was not the only ‘tall son’ that went viral in 2024.

The internet erupted as 54-year-old Take That star Gary Barlow published a photo of his own child.

Among all the jokes online, many social media users were interested in determining Daniel’s precise height, 24.

Gary is now 5 feet 7 inches tall, which is quite ordinary.

Daniel, on the other hand, is supposedly 6 feet 2 inches tall, standing eight inches taller.

That may surprise you, given that 6 feet 2 inches aren’t truly that tall – or at least not ‘massive’ enough to spark a nationwide frenzy online