WWE icon Jesse Ventura has publicly addressed Barron Trump, urging him to take a different course after Ventura claimed the assassination attempt targeting Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, was staged.
Barron Trump, Donald Trump’s youngest son, has drawn recent attention after First Lady Melania Trump warned of “serious consequences” for anyone circulating an alleged leaked photo of the 20-year-old.
He has also moved into the business world, becoming a director of a beverage firm called Sollos Yerba Mate Inc.
The company is registered in Palm Beach, Florida, just a short distance from the Trump family’s Mar-a-Lago property.
But Ventura argued that Barron should consider a more direct form of public service, making his comments while discussing the prospect of US conflict with Iran during an appearance on Piers Morgan Uncensored.
In the interview, the former Minnesota governor insisted that political leaders should be prepared to see their own families share the risks of war if they are willing to send other people’s children into combat.
Ventura added: “There’s a simple thing as a leader, and you know this having been in the military. Trump wouldn’t know it because he’s a draft-dodging coward. But anyway it’s this: a war is justified if you’re willing to send your kids. Because how can you send somebody else’s kids to a war if you won’t send your own?”
He then pivoted to a direct appeal aimed at Barron Trump, arguing that military service has not been a tradition in the Trump family in modern times.
The former Governor of Minnesota then issued a direct message to Barron, as he said: “So I’m calling right now for Barron Trump, Donald Trump’s son [to enlist]. After all, he’s had three wives, he’s had kids by each wife, and nobody’s ever served in the military. To my knowledge, a Trump in the last 100 years has never done military service.
“Well Barron, you can change that. Enlist in the United States military right now, do something your father didn’t have the courage to do, do something your father didn’t have the patriotism to do.”
Elsewhere in the same Piers Morgan Uncensored conversation, Ventura questioned the events surrounding the July 2024 shooting at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, suggesting it may not have been genuine.
Authorities said Thomas Matthew Crooks fired multiple shots toward Trump, with one round grazing his ear. Trump was treated for minor injuries, while rally attendee Corey Comperatore was killed.
Crooks was later shot dead by a Secret Service sniper, according to reports at the time.
Ventura focused on Trump’s reaction immediately after the incident, referencing the moment Trump stood back up and implying it resembled professional wrestling theatrics.
The WWE legend spoke on Morgan’s show about how Trump ‘got back up’ after the assassination attempt, with Ventura stating: “Oh yeah right, right, right, you ever heard of a blade job?”
He was pushed by Morgan if he thought the assassination attempt was ‘fake’, to which he responded: “I don’t know, where’s his scar today?”