Melania Trump quashes conspiracy theory about Barron Trump and why the president is targeting Harvard

First lady Melania Trump shot down a viral conspiracy theory Tuesday that her son Barron applied to Harvard University and was rejected, with a spokesman calling the assertion “completely false.”

“Barron did not apply to Harvard, and any assertion that he, or that anyone on his behalf, applied is completely false,” said Nicholas Clemens, the first lady’s communications director.

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The 19-year-old’s admissions status had been the subject of furious speculation on social media amid his father’s repeated attacks — and cancellation of grants and other federal funds — on the Ivy League institution.

President Trump on Tuesday pulled another $100 million from Harvard, adding to more than $3 billion in grant and contract terminations since taking office.

The funding termination — as well as moves to boot foreign students from the Cambridge, Mass. campus — have drawn multiple legal challenges.

Barron Trump completed his freshman year at New York University earlier this month after graduating from Oxbridge Academy in West Palm Beach, Fla., in spring 2024.

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“He’s got an unbelievable aptitude in technology,” Trump told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham in a March interview when asked whether his son would excel in politics or business.

“Barron is a very smart guy.”

Trump previously told The Post that several schools had offered his son admission, without divulging which ones. 

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The 6-foot-7 scion has also expressed an interest in politics — and appeared at campaign rallies and events alongside his father during the 2024 cycle.

“He’s a little on the tall side. I will tell you, he’s a tall one, but he is a good-looking guy. And he’s really been a great student. And he does like politics. It’s sort of funny,” Trump told “Kayal and Company” on Philadelphia’s Talk Radio 1210 WPHT last year.

He’s following in his father’s footsteps pursuing a degree in business at NYU’s Stern School and expected to graduate with the class of 2028.

Trump earned a degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School in 1968.

Donald Trump Jr., eldest of the president’s children, received the same degree in 2000 from Penn, and Ivanka Trump followed suit in 2004.

Ivanka originally enrolled at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. Her father started off as a student at Fordham University in the Bronx.

Eric Trump graduated with a bachelor’s degree in finance and management from McDonough in 2006.

His younger sister Tiffany got a law degree from Georgetown in 2020 after having received a bachelor’s in sociology from the university four years before.

Reps for Harvard University didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.