'SUPER CREEPY': Ex-NBC exec blasted for saying Barron Trump ...

A former NBC executive has been branded “disgusting” and “super creepy” after saying Barron Trump, the youngster child of the former president, is “fair game” now that he is an adult.

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Mike Sington shared the weird message on social-media site X, suggesting it is now fine for the public to go after the 18-year-old.

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A photo of Barron and his father, Donald, was shared alongside the message that said: “Barron Trump turns 18 today. He’s fair game now.”

The post was immediately criticized and Sington quickly deleted it, the U.K. Daily Mail reported.

Sington said he meant “fair game” in terms of criticism from the press, but others suggested it was meant to suggest Barron is now open to be harmed.

Per the Daily Mail, Sington apologized and told Newsweek he never intended to invite or “wish physical harm on anyone.”

Sington’s LinkedIn profile suggests he worked as director of operations at Universal for 30 years, until 2016, and created and produced the studio tour experience.

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Barron has been shielded almost entirely from the limelight for most of his childhood, with much of his adolescence taking place during his father’s White House tenure.

He was the first boy to grow up in the White House since John F. Kennedy Jr. In 1963.

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“This is super creepy,” wrote Garrett Ventry, former senior communications adviser to the Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans.

“This creepy NBC guy is completely broken. I wonder if he has kids? Nephews? Nieces? How old are they?” said Michael R. Caputo, former assistant secretary of public affairs for the Department of Health and Human Services.

“You sound like a creep dude,” added Javon A. Price, former aide to GOP Representative Byron Donalds.

“Someone pointed out to me ‘fair game’ could mean fair game to be harmed. I don’t wish physical harm on anyone, so I took it down,” Sington said in his apology, adding, “I listen to the comments and criticism I receive.”

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