Barron Trump has been hailed as the “future of the conservative movement in America” after comments that he was an “oddity” at  university sparked a republican outcry.

Barron, 18 – the youngest son of US President Donald Trump – is attending the New York University’s Stern School of Business.

The president of NYU’s College Republicans of America club, Kaya Walker, resigned this week after being quoted by Vanity Fair in an article that examined Barron’s university life.

“He’s sort of like an oddity on campus,” Walker apparently said.

“He goes to class, he goes home.”

After a heated response to the article from Trump supporters, CRA announced Walker had stood down, and shared her resignation letter on X.

Barron Trump is not a member of CRA and Walker said she was not an acquaintance of Barron and had never seen him on campus. 

National CRA head Will Donahue urged him to join, in a statement in which he described Barron as “the future of the conservative movement in America”.

“We we would be honoured to have him join College Republicans of America,” Donahue said.

“Strong leadership is built on resilience, courage, and the humility to rise above petty hostility – qualities that Barron has already demonstrated. We invite Barron to join us in shaping the future of our party,” he added.

Barron is known for staying out of the political spotlight, but both Donald Trump and wife Melania have credited him with helping his father connect with younger audiences during last year’s presidential election campaign.

This help included choosing which podcasts his father should appear on.

“He knew the youth vote … he said, ‘Dad, you’ve got to go out, do Joe Rogan, do these guys’,” Trump told a crowd of MAGA supporters on inauguration day in January.

“And we did. We did. Joe Rogan was great. They were all great, right? He understood the market.”

Barron made a rare political appearance at his father’s inauguration. Photo: AAP

Barron’s choice of university differs from that of his siblings – Donald Jr, Ivanka, Eric and Tiffany – who went to the University of Pennsylvania or George Town University.

Barron does not live on the NYU campus, instead staying at his family’s Trump Tower residence on Fifth Avenue in New York City.

Melania Trump told Fox News in September that her son was “enjoying his college days”.

“I hope he will have a great experience because his life is very different than any other 18, 19-year-old child,” she said.

In her resignation letter, Walker said her comments to Vanity Fair 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”.

Speaking to The New York Post after standing down, Walker denied she was attempting to portray Barron as “weird”.

“I just feel bad that he’s having this hard college experience, and I understand that he wants to be left alone,” she said.

“They [made it] look like I was calling the President’s son weird, but I feel like anybody who can read would know that’s not what I was doing.”