President Trump Told Son Barron to ‘Calm Down’ After He Called to Tell His Dad Charlie Kirk Was Shot

President Donald Trump tried to comfort his son Barron Trump after they learned the news that Charlie Kirk had been shot, according to a new book.

In Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump (released Tuesday, June 23), authors Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan report what was happening behind the scenes after Kirk was assassinated at age 31 on September 10, 2025.

After the incident, people in the White House tried to quickly gather information to take to the 80-year-old president, according to Regime Change (per a Thursday, January 25, report in People).

By the time then-White House deputy chief of staff Taylor Budowich went to White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, Barron, now 20, had already called his father.

“Trump’s youngest son, Barron, had already called to tell his father that Kirk had been shot,” Haberman and Swan claimed in the book, per People. “The nineteen-year-old Barron was a big fan of Kirk’s and he had phoned in a state of distress. He had been worried about an assassin taking another shot at his father.”

There have been multiple security incidents involving the sitting president, including on July 13, 2024, at a campaign rally near Butler, Pennsylvania, when Trump was wounded in his ear; on September 15, 2024, at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida; and at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on April 25.

“This is what happens when you go out there,” Barron reportedly said to the Apprentice alum. “This is what happened.”

According to Regime Change, per People, the president told his son to “calm down”; however, he “was clearly unnerved himself.”

“He’s such a good guy,” Donald reportedly said, referring to Kirk. “He really helped me out in 2024. He got the youth vote.”

Barron has apparently been a longtime fan of the right-wing political activist, whose sudden death gained national attention after he was killed while speaking at Utah Valley University as part of his American Comeback Tour.

According to People, when Donald visited the set of Fox & Friends, he said Barron was a “tremendous fan” of Kirk, adding: “Barron came to me. And he said dad, ‘I’d like to meet somebody that you know.’ ‘Who?’ ‘Charlie Kirk.'”

“I set up a lunch with him and Charlie,” he explained. “And he came back, he said, ‘That guy’s great, dad. That guy’s great.’ You know, it was cute.”