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It happened again. A media outlet tried to convince me that Barron Trump, President Donald Trump’s 19-year-old son, is a ladykiller. This time, it was the New York Post’s Page Six, which reported this week that the young Trump “shut down a whole floor of Trump Tower” for a date.

Before we get into the larger issue of Barron’s unsubstantiated heartthrob status, let’s pause to break down what “shut down a whole floor of Trump Tower” actually means. Shutting down a floor of a skyscraper at first mention sounds like something a big shot with slicked-back hair might do in a ’90s movie. But the building where Barron supposedly shut down a floor happens to be the same

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