President of NYU’s College Republicans Forced to Resign After Calling Barron Trump an ‘Oddity on Campus’

Kaya Walker, the president of NYU’s College Republicans, was forced to resign after calling Barron Trump an “oddity on campus.”

Walker’s resignation letter to the New York Federation of College Republicans was shared by NYU’s College Republicans in a post on X on Tuesday, Feb. 18.

The resignation occurred days after Vanity Fair published an article that examined the college life of President Donald Trump‘s 18-year-old son.

“He’s sort of like an oddity on campus,” Walker told the outlet in a story about Barron published on Wednesday, Feb. 12. “He goes to class, he goes home.”

She claimed in her resignation letter that her comments were “ridiculously misconstrued to suggest that I found Barron Trump’s commuter status to be unusual when in reality the majority of NYU’s student body-including myself-are commuters.”

According to Walker, her complete statement to Vanity Fair showed her “disappointment in the spectacle that the media and individuals on campus have created through the online circulation of gossip, articles, memes and even photos taken of Barron in class with no respect whatsoever for his privacy.”

Walker noted that she is not an acquaintance of Barron and has never seen him on campus. She said the “oddity” she spoke about was the “unhealthy fascination that people have with a teenager just minding his business by going to college.”

The college student used Dylan & Cole Sprouse’s time at NYU as an example of the “ugly side of our culture on campus and worldwide that delights in forming parasocial relationships with celebrities” and said she does “not apologize for trying to denouce the campus hysteria.”

“I do apologize to everyone that I love and respect that was caught in the crosshairs of this willful and malicious misreading of my comment,” Walker said.

College Republicans of America, however, noted in a press release that Walker’s statement to Vanity Fair “does not align with the values and principles upheld by our organization.”

They said that although what Walker said was “unfairly framed,” a review of her comments found them to be “inappropriate.”

The organization said its goal is to “reaffirm CRA’s dedication to the ideals of the Republican Party and conservative movement in a manner that reflects honorably upon our organization and its mission.”

In response to the incident, they invited Barron to join them in “reshaping the Republican Party.”

“Barron Trump represents the future of the conservative movement, and we would be honored to have him join College Republicans. Strong leadership is built on resilience, courage, and the humility to rise above petty hostility–qualities that Barron has already demonstrated,” said College Republicans of America president Will Donahue in a statement on X.