{"slug": "secret-service-is-looking-into-perceived-threat-against-barron-trump-after-10m", "title": "Secret Service is looking into 'perceived threat' against Barron Trump after disturbing $10M bounty video out of Iran", "summary": "The U.S. Secret Service is investigating a perceived threat against Barron Trump after an Iranian state-linked video titled 'Where to Kill Barron Trump' offered a $10 million bounty and detailed his whereabouts, social media habits, and close friends. Secret Service spokesman Nate Herring confirmed the agency is aware of the video and investigates any potential threat to its protectees, but declined to discuss protective intelligence for operational security. The video, which uses AI-generated graphics, is part of a series of Iranian regime-backed threats targeting President Donald Trump's family, following a similar video about First Lady Melania Trump.", "body_md": "# Secret Service is looking into ‘perceived threat’ against Barron Trump after disturbing $10M bounty video out of Iran\n\n[Sign up HERE to our DC Insider newsletter](https://link.news.dailymail.co.uk/join/dc-insider-sign-up?utm_source=dailymail.co.uk&utm_medium=organic_editorial&utm_campaign=conversion_newsletter&utm_term=dcinsider_bullets&utm_budgetpot=organic)- your guide to what's rocking Washington, rattling the White House and setting tongues wagging on the Hill**See more Daily Mail on Google -**[save us as a Preferred Source](https://google.com/preferences/source?q=dailymail.com)\n\nThe US Secret Service is aware of an Iranian threat against [Donald Trump](/news/donald_trump/index.html)'s youngest son, Barron Trump, after a video detailing his whereabouts and close friends was released.\n\nIranian state TV has on various occasions aired menacing AI-generated videos attacking the president's family.\n\nIt recently [aired a similar video targeting First Lady Melania Trump](/news/article-16009067/Iran-targets-Melania-Barron-Trump-vile-assassination-threats-chilling-action-weaponize-Ladys-shopping-habit.html), naming her personal staff, detailing where she shops, and suggesting ways to murder her with poison.\n\n[The latest video about Barron](/news/article-16075227/Barron-Trump-Iran-threat-reward-US.html), 20, similarly shares information about where he is known to travel and stay, his social media and gaming habits, and a map of his close friends.\n\nChillingly, the video, which is titled 'Where to Kill Barron Trump,' offers a $10 million bounty. One scene shows a butler-type figure holding a concealed knife as a narrator describes how to infiltrate the first son's network of friends.\n\n'The US Secret Service is aware of the video and investigates anything that can be perceived as a threat toward our protectees,' Secret Service spokesman Nate Herring told the Daily Mail in a statement.\n\n'Out of concern for operational security, we do not discuss matters of protective intelligence.'\n\nThe three-minute clip focuses on Barron and menacingly shows attempts to identify ways of reaching him in the US, using what appears to be AI-generated graphics that show the NYU student being surveilled.\n\nThe three-minute clip focuses on Barron, 20, and menacingly shows attempts to identify ways of reaching him in the US\n\nA woman walks next to an anti-Trump billboard in Tehran, Iran, on August 19 2026\n\nBergdorf Goodman and Saks Fifth Avenue were two locations specifically mentioned in an Iranian regime-linked video as spots Melania likes to frequent. The video targeting Melania was published last month\n\nThe creators claim that they infiltrated the US Secret Service to get detailed information on Barron's networks and whereabouts.\n\nThe video claims the 20-year-old and the Secret Service once met on the 58th floor of Trump Tower in New York and that while at school he is constantly surrounded by agents.\n\nIt also states a DC location where Barron reportedly stays and shares details about his NYU dormitory. He attends a satellite campus of the New York City-based university in the capital.\n\nThe regime-backed video also notes the first son's love of video games and how he communicates via Xbox and Discord. His social media accounts, the video alleges, are run by his close friend Bo Loudon.\n\nOne [AI](/sciencetech/ai/index.html) clip appeared to show a masked and hooded hacker sat in front of a computer, searching for details about the president's youngest son.\n\nThe video underscores how the Iranian regime is more frequently turning to personal threats against the president's family as the war with the US nears its sixth month.\n\nThe Tasnim News Agency, which is affiliated with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, last month published an AI-generated video highlighting the locations the First Lady likes to shop at and how assassins could target her.\n\n'Melania's obsession with fashion has become her biggest weakness,' a narrator says in the harrowing video, according to its closed captioning. 'Melania has a special interest in the luxury department stores on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.'\n\nBirds perch near an anti-US billboard featuring US President Donald Trump in southern Tehran, Iran, on August 24 2026\n\nIt specifically names Bergdorf Goodman and Saks Fifth Avenue as Melania's favorite shopping hot spots.\n\n'These places could be suitable for operations by global freedom fighters,' the video continues.\n\nIt then gives viewers tips about 'the advanced signs indicating Melania will visit these centers,' such as public trash bins missing from street corners and welded-shut manholes on the route she takes to go shopping.\n\nIran has targeted the president and ordered a failed plot to have Trump killed in 2024.\n\nThe ruse was broken up by US authorities, and the would-be assassin, a former IRGC-tied operative, was convicted by the Justice Department in March.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/secret-service-is-looking-into-perceived-threat-against-barron-trump-after-10m", "canonical_source": "https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16078545/Secret-Service-looking-perceived-threat-against-Barron-Trump-disturbing-10M-bounty-video-Iran.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490", "published_at": "2026-08-25 16:58:33+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-25 17:44:11.168434+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-ethics", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["Secret Service", "Barron Trump", "Donald Trump", "Melania Trump", "Nate Herring", "Tasnim News Agency", "Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps", "NYU"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/secret-service-is-looking-into-perceived-threat-against-barron-trump-after-10m", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/secret-service-is-looking-into-perceived-threat-against-barron-trump-after-10m.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/secret-service-is-looking-into-perceived-threat-against-barron-trump-after-10m.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/secret-service-is-looking-into-perceived-threat-against-barron-trump-after-10m.jsonld"}}