And during this phone call, Trump apparently used a pet name for his son as he tried to settle his worries.
“Calm down, honey, calm down,” the president said, according to Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump.
Yep, it’s said he calls his son ‘honey’, or at least according to this book and in moments of heightened worry.

Barron is the youngest of the Trump brood. (ANGELA WEISS / AFP via Getty Images)
The authors have spoken a lot about the Trump administration being very good at keeping secrets.
“There’s a reason that there hasn’t been a ton of inside-the-room reporting since last year,” Swan said of it, per The Guardian.
“It’s because it’s really f**king hard. This is a tiny group of people running the government, and there’s this canard that Trump puts out that, ‘I’m the most transparent president ever.’ It’s complete nonsense.
“They’re actually … incredibly good at keeping secrets.”
The authors say is health is an example of how the administration is ‘very good at keeping secrets’ as they describe there being the ‘tiniest inner circle’.