When Donald Trump returns to the White House on Monday, his family circle will be a little different than when he arrived eight years ago.
Her youngest son, Barron, was in fifth grade at the time. He is now in his first year of university and towers over his father at 1.80 meters. Her granddaughter Kai, who was 9 years old in 2017, is now an aspiring social media influencer and impressive golfer. His grandson Joseph, who posed on Trump’s lap with a Lego model of the White House last time, is now 11 years old.
The most prominent members of Trump’s political family, his daughter Ivanka and her husband, Jared, are in Florida this time after working in his first administration.
Trump’s descendants
President-elect Donald Trump has five adult children and 10 grandchildren.
Family members can provide presidents with a ready source of moral support and sounding board, camaraderie and even relief from the world’s problems. Not to mention sometimes creating headaches for the president too.
“Family can do things that others cannot do, and they can be trusted in ways that other people cannot do either,” said Tevi Troy, a former George W. Official of the Bush administration and author of several books on the presidency. “Everyone needs someone to talk to late at night when you’re letting your hair down, so to speak. »
The president-elect has five children – three of whom are married – from his marriages to Ivana Trump, Marla Maples and his current wife Melania Trump. He has 10 grandchildren, with an 11th on the way.
A look at Trump’s family circle, then and now:
His wife:
Melania Trump
THEN: She spent the first months of Trump’s term in the family’s Manhattan penthouse so that 11-year-old Barron wouldn’t have to change schools mid-year. After moving to the White House, she traveled across the United States and other countries, alone and with Trump, in part to promote his “Be Best” children’s initiative while fiercely guarding her privacy.
NOW: She has avoided active campaigning during Trump’s 2024 run, limiting her public appearances to key moments, such as the campaign launch, the Republican National Convention and election night. She published a self-titled memoir late last year and will be the subject of a documentary distributed by Amazon Prime Video due out later this year. While some doubt Trump’s 54-year-old wife spends much time at the White House, she said on Fox News’ “Fox & Friends” that she has already packed and picked out the furniture she wants to bring to the executive mansion.
His children: Donald Trump Jr.
THEN: Trump’s eldest son, now 46, campaigned for his father in 2016 and 2020.
NOW: Trump Jr.’s influence grew to the point that he pressured his father to choose close friend JD Vance for vice president. He also lobbied for former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the president-elect’s director of national intelligence and Health and Human Services, respectively. Trump Jr. helps run the family real estate business and serves as honorary chairman of Trump’s transition. He has a podcast and said his role is to keep “bad actors” out of government. He recently took his father’s plane to Greenland; the president-elect has expressed a desire to take control of the mineral-rich Danish territory.
Trump Jr. has five children – or “smurfs,” as he sometimes calls them – with his ex-wife, Vanessa Trump. They are Kai Madison, 17; Donald John III, 15; Tristan Milos, 13 years old; Spencer Frederick, 12; and Chloe Sophia Trump, 10.
Ivanka Trump
THEN: Ivanka, 43, campaigned for her father in 2016 and moved her family from New York to Washington to work in his White House as a senior adviser. She was also on the campaign trail in 2020, but she and her family moved to Florida and retreated from the spotlight after her loss.
NOW: As Trump prepared for the 2024 race, Ivanka announced that she loved and supported him, but was stepping out of politics to focus on her husband and their three children. She did, however, join her father and other family members on election night and when he rang the New York Stock Exchange in early December after Time magazine named him person of the year. She told “The Skinny Confidential” podcast that this time around, she just wanted to “show up for him as a girl” and be there to watch a movie or sports game.
Ivanka and her husband have three children: Arabella Rose, 13; Joseph Frederick, 11; and Theodore James Kushner, 8.
Eric Trump
THEN: The 40-year-old helped run the family business and participated in his father’s campaigns.
NOW: Eric is also honorary president of the transition and close advisor to his father. But he continues to focus more on running the family business. In September, he and his brother launched a crypto platform called World Liberty Financial, and their father helped launch it in an interview on the social media platform
Eric and his wife, Lara, have two children: Eric Luke, 7, and Carolina Dorothy Trump, 5.
Tiffany Trump
-THEN: Trump’s daughter with his second wife Marla Maples was 23 and a recent graduate of the University of Pennsylvania who kept a low profile when Trump was first elected.
NOW: She was more present in the 2024 campaign, but still largely avoids the spotlight. Tiffany, 31, and her husband, Michael Boulos, are expecting their first child this year. Boulos is a businessman who traveled with Trump in the final stretch of the campaign. His father is Massad Boulos, a Lebanese American businessman who helped Trump with the influential Arab American community in the swing state of Michigan. Trump named Massad Boulos senior adviser on Arab and Middle East affairs.
Barron Trump
THEN: Early in Trump’s first term, Barron and his mother stayed at the family’s Trump Tower penthouse in Manhattan so he could finish his school year. When they arrived in Washington, her soccer net appeared in what is known as the first lady’s backyard.
NOW: Barron, 18, is a first-year business student at New York University. His parents and Trump campaign officials credit him with recommending podcasts popular with young men on which the president-elect appeared during the campaign. Barron will have a room in the White House, Melania Trump said on “Fox & Friends.”
Donald Trump said Barron helped introduce hm to people he had never heard of before.
“He was very good,” the president-elect told NBC News in a telephone interview Saturday. “It’s the new wave. And it was very helpful. »
His mother told “Fox & Friends” last year that “I’m very proud of him, his knowledge, even politics and giving advice to his father.” He brought so many young people. He knows his generation. »
Other family members in the spotlight: Lara Trump
SO : Trump’s daughter-in-law, 42, campaigned for him during all of his races. After Trump lost to Democrat Joe Biden in 2020, she considered running in the United States. Senate seat in his home state of North Carolina, but ultimately decided against. She became a Fox News commentator.
NOW: As Trump revealed his 2024 campaign, he installed his daughter-in-law as co-chair of the Republican National Committee, where she was a TV-ready advocate overseeing fundraising, voter outreach and the initiative. ‘”electoral integrity” of the party. She resigned from the RNC after the election and withdrew her name from consideration as a possible successor to the senator. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., Trump’s pick for secretary of state.
Lara Trump is passionate about fitness and has her own activewear line. She also explored a side business as a singer and released a few songs. Daughter Carolina is named after her home state.
Jared Kushner
THEN: Kushner, 44, was also a key figure in Trump’s 2016 campaign. He joined his wife at the White House as a senior adviser, a role that included work on U.S. policy toward Israel and the broader Middle East.
NOW: Kushner is out of the political spotlight — but his father may soon step in. Trump announced after the election that he intended to nominate Charles Kushner, a real estate developer, as U.S. ambassador to France. The elder Kushner was pardoned by Trump in December 2020 after pleading guilty years earlier to tax evasion and illegal campaign contributions.
When Trump
THEN: Kai was in elementary school when his grandfather became president.
NOW: Donald Trump’s 17-year-old granddaughter is an aspiring social media influencer. His behind-the-scenes video from election night garnered 3.7 million views on YouTube. Other posts related to his grandfather have been viewed millions of times on TikTok. Kai gave her first public speech at the Republican convention and is an avid golfer who sometimes plays with her grandfather.
“If I’m not on his team, he’ll try to get in my head, and he’s always surprised that I don’t let him get me,” she said at the convention. “But I have to remind him that I’m also a Trump. »
Arabella Kushner
THEN: The daughter of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner was 6 when her grandfather showed China’s Xi Jinping a video of her, in traditional Chinese dress, singing songs in Chinese.
“It’s very good, isn’t it? She’s very smart,” Trump said. Xi responded that Arabella was his grandfather’s “little angel” and a “messenger of China-US relations.”
NOW: Arabella is 13 and enjoys singing, playing the piano, riding horses and performing Brazilian jiu-jitsu, according to a social media post from her mother.
Source : AP
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