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To the seventy-eight-year-old former president, this exchange represented something profound. He recounted it with genuine wonder, calling his youngest son’s abilities “remarkable” and “incredible,” praising talents that seemed to border on wizardry. In Trump’s telling, Barron had performed a feat of engineering genius, bypassing the natural order of electronics through sheer intellectual force. The laptop had resurrected itself, and in that small miracle, Trump saw validation of his own genetic legacy—a son so gifted that he could bend technology to his desires.
