‘I Like My Suitcase’ Clip Goes Viral, Inspires Club Remix
TikTok users have spread and remixed a years-old clip of Barron Trump, the 18-year-old son of President-elect Donald Trump and his wife Melania, speaking in a Slovenian accent as a young child, making him an unexpected phenomenon on the platform despite having no social media presence himself.
In the clip, which aired on CNN and appears to show Barron Trump with his parents in his father’s office, a young Barron holding a briefcase says, “I like my suitcase” and asks his mother, “I have to go to school now?”
The clip, which went viral after the Daily Mail uploaded it to TikTok last week and garnered more than 54 million views, also contains a brief clip of Melania and Donald Trump speaking with Larry King, telling him Barron has Melania’s accent because he spends most of his time with her.
The audio of Barron has since been used in more than 65,000 TikTok videos, with many users amused by his accent matching his mother’s instead of his father’s and that he appears to carry a briefcase with him instead of a backpack.
One TikTok user claimed “everyone at NYU is repeating this through the halls” on a video viewed more than 6 million times, referencing Barron Trump’s recent high-profile enrollment at New York University.
A club remix of Barron Trump saying, “I like my suitcase,” also went viral, with more than 20,000 users using the audio in their videos, some of whom have garnered millions of views partaking in a trend where they zip themselves in a suitcase.
Edited TikTok videos of Donald Trump doing the viral “Trump dance”—made famous at his rallies and increasingly embraced on social media and by professional athletes—to the “I like my suitcase” remix have also gone viral.
What do you think about this trend? Does it showcase the charm of internet culture, or does it raise questions about the way we revive and reinterpret personal moments? Let us know your thoughts!
