Eight years after attending his father's first presidential inauguration, Barron Trump returned to the Capitol for Donald Trump's second swearing-in. The youngest son of the 47th President of the United States is now 18 years old.
Barron arrived at the Capitol rotunda accompanied by his mother Melania Trump and his maternal grandfather Viktor Knavs. When Donald Trump entered the White House in 2017, Barron was just 10 years old and was kept as far from the spotlight as possible, unlike his siblings Ivanka, Don Jr, Eric and Tiffany, who played a active role in their father's political career. Melania Trump wanted to protect her son at all costs.
Barron Trump grew up in New York City, attending top public schools on the Upper West Side. After Inauguration Day 2017, he finished the school year in Manhattan before moving to the White House, where he continued his education at St. Andrew's Episcopal School in Maryland. At the end of Trump's presidency in 2021, the family settled permanently in Palm Beach, Florida, where Barron completed high school at an upscale institution.
Last year he graduated from high school. He is now in his first year of college at New York University's Stern School of Business, one of the most prestigious academic institutions in the country. A choice of orientation which testifies to his interest in business, his father's favorite field.
-Barron will continue to attend school in Manhattan, but he will still have a room at the White House so he can “come whenever he wants,” his mother recently said in an interview with Fox News. “Whatever he decides to do,” Melania said, “I think our role as parents is to keep our children with us until they're 18 or 19, to educate them, to guide them, and let them take flight. I always respect Barron's choices. »
Advisor for dad
Melania Trump also said that Barron had given her father valuable advice during the 2024 presidential campaign on how to approach young people: it was he who had convinced him to receive popular streamers and podcasters for reach the youngest electorate.
“Barron is a young adult now, and I’m really proud of him. He knows so much, including politics, and he gave his father good advice. He got so many young people to get involved. He knows his generation, because today's children no longer watch television. They spend all their time on tablets, phones, following podcasts and streamers, Melania said during an interview on the show Fox & Friends. Barron was very outspoken, and it was amazing to see how he contributed to his success, because he knew exactly who his father needed to talk to. Indeed, Donald Trump put some of Barron's advice into practice during the campaign, giving interviews to popular podcasters, like Joe Rogan, with whom he had a three-hour long discussion. After this interview, Joe Rogan declared that he supported Donald Trump.
