When people think of the Trump campaign in Colorado, they might think of Weston Imer. And he has this on good authority.

“Eric Trump told me that I am the kid of the Trump campaign, I am the face of the Trump campaign in Colorado,” the 13-year-old Imer told Colorado Politics. “And they wanted me to remain that. I still believe I am.”

Late last summer, when Imer, who was 12 at the time, signed on as co-chair of the Jefferson County Trump campaign, national and international news outlets took notice and splashed his story around the world.

“I love it,” he said with an easy laugh. “I love getting the attention, I think it’s great. I have a feeling that any other kid in my position would feel the same way about getting covered by nearly every major news network in the world.” He paused for a moment to let that sink in. “It is very, very amazing to have been given this privilege.”

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Imer’s fame has endured. When he goes to the symphony with his grandparents, for instance, he said people give him funny looks. “‘Is that him, is that the kid?’ they’d ask, then I’ll look at them and say, ‘Yes it’s him,’ and they’ll take another elevator. That happens everywhere I go.”

It can be difficult. “The bullying still continues,” Imer said with a sigh. “I have a hard time balancing friends and my political jobs.”

He rattled off a long list of commitments – he’s still co-chair of the Jeffco Trump campaign, he runs the Kids for Trump and Teens for Trump coalitions, and he’s helping out with Women for Trump. Imer is also youth ambassador for the St. Rafka Mission of Hope and Mercy in the Middle East with Father Andre Mahanna, and he’s serving as interim volunteer director of Republican Steve Barlock’s gubernatorial campaign.

“I’m trying to balance all that with being a kid,” he said.

Imer has been homeschooled since the winter break because the school he was attending last fall – he doesn’t want to name it – threatened to have him arrested if he skipped school for a week to attend Trump’s inauguration, he said.

“When we received an invitation from the president to go, we asked permission, but the school wouldn’t give me excused absences and said, ‘You will be in truancy.’ This tracks back to the Trump campaign – the school never approved any of my absences. I was asked to go to every rally and was on escort teams for people who came to Colorado, like Ben Carson, Ivanka, Donald, Jr., Eric Trump. I only had three excused absences left, so I started homeschooling.”

Imer said he’ll continue homeschooling next year for the eighth grade but hopes to have a paid position with Trump’s reelection campaign the year after, when he’ll be in ninth grade and old enough to work.

His enthusiasm for Trump has only grown since last year, bolstered by a whirlwind week in Washington, D.C., for the inauguration and associated festivities. Sounding slightly annoyed, but only slightly – his speedy, assured delivery hardly wavers – Imer said some Trump supporters are expecting too much too soon.

“The administration is working as hard as it can to keep the promises it made during the campaign. Some of the things they still haven’t done, they’re getting to them. Some people are very upset that the border wall hasn’t been built yet,” Imer said. “But if he does everything he promised to do immediately, he won’t have anything to do in the next three and a half years. People need to understand – it takes time. Have patience, have some trust in the president.”