Ever since Barron Trump came of age as an adult, the entire conversation around him has changed. Even the staunchest critics of Barron’s father left the boy alone before he was 18, out of respect. And although I always thought it likely that he’d turn out to be, well, a Trump, I thought that was kind of a breath of fresh air.

It was a nice break, at least, from the GOP-style attacks on other presidential children. Chelsea Clinton was called a “dog” on right-wing radio when she was a pre-teen, and the paparazzi stalked Barack and Michelle Obama’s two girls like they were desperate to catch them doing something wrong.

But after Barron turned 18, the gloves came off. And I don’t actually think that’s unfair. After all, we’ve seen stories about the Third Son that would make any reasonable person’s hair stand on end.

That has not stopped Republican lawmakers, right-wing talking heads, and especially Trump’s MAGA cultists from trying to turn Barron into the next JFK, Jr. That’s with a J, not an R, mind you.

Most prominent Republican leaders have taken pains to entertain him at Trump’s various events. At Mar-a-Lago, he’s treated like any of the rest of the important apparatus surrounding the president, and at large events, a few words from him makes the crowd go crazy.

Conservative social media “influencer” Justin Waller told Vanity Fair that Barron’s “the kind of guy that can start a business that can go public, but he also can sit down and drink a beer with the individual that’s running his manufacturing facility.”

Another influencer, Maria Ariana, claims that students at NYU have shifted their political views and speech around him, saying “I’ve seen a lot of people just kind of keep it more to themselves.”

His personal tailor even calls him a “ladies man,” something that doesn’t quite square with his dad’s admission that he’s likely a virgin who’s never had a girlfriend.

All in all, people are writing a legend about Barron Trump that doesn’t exist.

None of that is merited, of course. He’s got nothing under his belt, save for a luxury real estate venture he’s just started with a classmate and an investor from Idaho. He’s still in college. That’s why it’s best to look to his classmates for a real look at what kind of person Barron is.

Spoiler alert: They have no idea. There’s nothing normal about Barron Trump’s life. Of course he’s famous and sought-after — he’s a Trump. People would book Eric as a clown at their kid’s birthday party if he wasn’t so afraid of being his true self. Everyone wants to be close to a famous person, and people who want to curry favor with Donald Trump will say any manner of sweet nothings about his children.

On campus, nobody really knows what’s up with that guy, other than that he’s not like any of the other students. “He’s sort of like an oddity on campus,” says Kaya Walker, the president of the NYU Republicans. “He goes to class, he goes home.”

That seems like a pretty kind assessment for what must be a super weird experience for everyone else on campus. A constant Secret Service presence seems like it must disrupt the other students’ lives, as well as the professors at the school. In fact, Walker quoted one of her own professors as saying “he doesn’t really belong here.”

Other students told Vanity Fair that Barron was “definitely a gamer,” while another noted that he had asked Barron to play basketball and while the young Trump seemed interested, it seemed like “he wasn’t really allowed to do stuff,” nodding toward the plainclothes security detail.

And like his old man uses a golf cart exclusively to get around the course at his exclusive resorts, Barron makes his way through campus in a motorcade, always surrounded by innumerable security personnel.

In a narrative entirely different than the one being spun about him as an influencer of his father’s campaign and political activities, by any account, Barron participates in almost nothing at all at school. In fact, he doesn’t even spend a whole lot of time on campus, according to classmates.

You’ve often heard it said that “the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree,” and indeed, Barron is a lot like his dad, down to physical appearance and everything. But with all the other things we’ve seen and read about Barron, it seems like the old saying could be modified a little bit, if you’ll pardon the euphemism:

“The douche doesn’t fall far from the bag.”