The format jumped to Japan on November 19, 2016, when SoraNews24 wrote up a mock manga cover by artist Yuusuke Horii titled 'My loud, annoying dad is president, so the quiet unassuming life I wanted is completely over' (translated from Japanese)1. Japanese Twitter accounts kept posting bishonen fan art and noting Barron's 170 cm height at age ten.

Traffic surged again around the January 20, 2017 inauguration. A GIF of Barron declining Melania's high-five spread across Twitter, and later that month a r/me_irl shot of him staring out a limousine window drew 26,000 upvotes in a day, while a r/MemeEconomy image using his hands-on-face pose as a Minecraft reaction cleared 15,900 upvotes on January 245. On the same inauguration day, Saturday Night Live writer Katie Rich was suspended after tweeting that Barron would be 'this country's first homeschool shooter,' which fed a public argument about whether presidential children were off-limits for comedy3.

A second wind arrived in June 2018, when Barron was photographed on the White House lawn in a 'The Expert' T-shirt, spawning new image macros on Reddit and 4chan. Days later, actor Peter Fonda tweeted in all caps that Barron should be caged with pedophiles, drawing a public reply from Donald Trump Jr. and a Secret Service referral before Fonda apologized through his publicist3.