Melania Trump has made it her life\u2019s calling to protect and support her son, Barron. Though the Slovenian-born model was \u2014 and will once again be \u2014 First Lady, she always put her son first. That said, when her husband returns to the White House for a second term, it appears that Melania won\u2019t be by his side one hundred percent of the time.<\/p>\n
Barron Trump has begun his college studies, enrolling at Stern Business School at New York University. Several other students have spoken on what it\u2019s like to have the son of the President of the United States as their classmate, with the 18-year-old Barron receiving Secret Service protection everywhere he goes.<\/p>\n
Melania has protected her son from media scrutiny ever since he was a young boy, and that\u2019s not changed just because he has grown up. Now, one Republican politician has spoken out about Melania and Barron\u2019s relationship, revealing exactly how far she will go if anyone tries to harm him.<\/p>\n
Melania<\/a>\u00a0Trump is once again moving into the White House. In just a few days,\u00a0Donald Trump<\/a> will be inaugurated as the 47th President of the United States and will immediately head to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to take up his second term in the Oval Office.<\/p>\n When Donald left the White House in 2020, Melania was reportedly done with politics. She and her husband, along with their son\u00a0Barron<\/a>, left Washington for their Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, where the latter enrolled at Oxbridge Academy high school.<\/p>\n Melania and Barron largely left the spotlight after that. They were barely seen for years, as she did everything she could to protect him from media scrutiny, including shielding him from reporting about his father\u2019s various criminal cases. In March 2023, a source told People Magazine that Melania has always been \u201cvery protective\u201d of her only child.<\/p>\n \u201cMelania\u2019s friends are her family members. She is a doting mother to Barron and very protective of him. This is nothing new,\u201d\u00a0the source said, adding that Barron always has been a \u201cfirst priority\u201d.<\/p>\n Just as he was about to graduate high school in May, more details about Barron\u2019s life at Mar-a-Lago came to light. A source told the\u00a0Daily Mail\u00a0that Melania had locked herself in a \u201ctight\u201d\u00a0bubble behind the gates of the Trump family\u2019s Palm Beach mansion.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s so regal. He\u2019s a little Melania,\u2019\u00a0a source close to Melania and Donald told the Daily Mail of Barron.<\/p>\n Melania has only made one appearance since Donald\u2019s presidential win in November, with many wondering what her plan is for the years to come at the White House. Several insiders claimed Melania would take on all the duties expected of a First Lady. However, she won\u2019t be living at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue full-time.<\/p>\n Sources told\u00a0CNN<\/a>\u00a0that Melania is expected to live mainly at Trump Tower in New York, the better to remain close to her son. According to the news outlet, she will also spend time at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida.<\/p>\n \u201cShe has carte blanche \u2013 she can be as active in the East Wing or as inactive as she cares to be,\u201d Kate Bennett, author of\u00a0Free, Melania,<\/em>\u00a0told CNN.<\/p>\n Bennett continued by saying that Melania has decided not to use the past four years to build her own platform and brand, as other first ladies, such as Laura Bush and Michelle Obama, have done before her.<\/p>\n The author and former CNN White House correspondent explained that first ladies \u201ccan retreat into relative privacy, but they still maintain the platform agenda that they established. That\u2019s a big rift. We can respect her need for privacy, but we have to question how deeply she did not use her global recognition.\u201d<\/p>\n Bennett added: \u201cThe missed opportunity of this period between her tenure in the White House has been the lack of a continuing platform or policy agenda that most first ladies build on.\u201d<\/p>\n CNN has previously reported that discussions about Melania\u2019s involvement in the Trump Administration are \u201congoing.\u201d She has appointed Hayley Harrison as Chief of Staff. In October, Melania told Fox that a second term in the White House would look different.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m not anxious because this time is different. I have much more experience and much more knowledge. I was in the White House before. When you go in, you know exactly what to expect,\u201d Melania explained.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Barron Trump\u2019s first few months at New York University appear to have gone smoothly. Since leaving the White House, he has benefitted from Secret Service protection, which the 18-year-old has continued to receive at NYU.<\/p>\n Due to his studies, Barron will not live at the White House as he did during his father\u2019s last presidential term. He will continue living at Trump Tower, but as mentioned, whether\u00a0Melania\u00a0will be at his side or not is yet to be determined.<\/p>\n Several sources tell People Magazine that Melania \u201cwill do everything she can\u201d to support Barron\u2019s well-being and ensure his good grades. Meanwhile, the 18-year-old will not get the \u201cfull college experience\u201d by living in a dorm.<\/p>\n \u201cLiving in a dorm in a college town isn\u2019t in the stars for him at this point,\u201d a source told\u00a0People<\/a>. \u201cBarron already has his own political ideas. It all needs to be monitored in light of the situation.\u201d<\/p>\n Another source told the news outlet that living at home is Barron\u2019s best option now.<\/p>\n \u201cWhether or not others think he is capable of being on his own, Melania feels it\u2019s better to be around him as much as possible,\u201d that source said. \u201cI see that continuing.\u201d<\/p>\n Melania\u2019s reason for being close to Barron does not only involve supporting him in his early days at NYU. Two other sources told\u00a0People Magazine<\/a>\u00a0that his father\u2019s return to the White House has played a part.<\/p>\n \u201cMelania worries about the hate in the country and how it falls on her son, who is innocent of any of this,\u201d the source said. \u201cShe is and has been a good sounding board for him. They talk about life as it is and how they are in the spotlight. She tries to normalize his life. If that is even possible.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAny child in the world spotlight like this would be lucky to have a parent so willing to give her time to help keep his life running smoothly,\u201d a Palm Beach source told the outlet.<\/p>\n Another unnamed source stated: \u201cShe wants to encourage him to make friends, be super careful of the haters which can be anywhere \u2014 especially on college campuses these days \u2014 and keep him mentally healthy by having open communication with him and the rest of her immediate family.\u201d<\/p>\n Paparazzi photographers photographed Barron on his first day at NYU. Meanwhile, many \u201cregular\u201d people attend the school, and it appears they have mixed emotions about Barron.<\/p>\n The Daily Mail went to the NYU campus to speak with some students, one of whom speculated that Barron might change his outlook on life to fit in.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s going to NYU, so if he is at all interested in girls, he\u2019s going to become kind of liberal, I\u2019ll tell you that,\u2019 one student told the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n Another student stated: \u201cMy mom is going to want me to marry him.\u201d<\/p>\n Secret Service agents will, as mentioned, follow Barron around campus all the time. A third student stated they felt \u201creally bad for him\u201d as he \u201cdid not choose this life.\u201d<\/p>\n A fourth student said, \u201cHis dad is his dad and he is own person so I\u2019m not going to judge,\u201d adding that she would consider a friendship. \u201cOf course, who wouldn\u2019t want to be friends with a Trump?\u201d<\/p>\n However, not everyone is thrilled that the president\u2019s son will study at NYU. One student said she would \u201cabsolutely not\u201d be friends with Barron.<\/p>\n \u201cIt speaks to the privilege that a lot of the NYU kids have. I\u2019m only here because of financial aid,\u201d the student told the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n The media has always been fascinated by celebrity children, and Trump is no exception. In a column for\u00a0Cleveland.com<\/a>, Robert Paulson, former Republican mayor of Solon, wrote about the price celebrity children have to pay for simply being who they are.<\/p>\n While it was different for Donald Trump\u2019s older children, Paulson claims that when it came to Barron, Melania was prepared to \u201cchop off anyone at the knees\u201d who went after her son.<\/p>\n \u201cDonald Trump\u2019s adult children\u00a0Don Jr<\/a>.,\u00a0Eric<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Ivanka<\/a>\u00a0proved fair game, with the media considering that they had injected themselves into their father\u2019s administration,\u201d Paulson wrote.<\/p>\n \u201cHowever, their stepmother, Melania Trump, was prepared to chop off anyone at the knees who went after her then 8-year-old son Barron, and we barely saw him during his pre-teen years. Now that he is a strapping (reportedly) six-foot, nine-inch, 18-year-old New York University student, it will be harder to keep him from public view.\u201d<\/p>\n While Barron has hardly been sighted in public over the years, hearing him speak has been even rarer. When he was young, Barron spoke with a Slovenian accent, taking after his mother. However, the 18-year-old\u2019s accent has now changed completely.<\/p>\n In a clip where he and his father met UFC President Dana White, fans heard him speak for the first time in years. And it was quite a shock hearing it \u2013 as his Slovenian accent had disappeared entirely.<\/p>\n \u201cHello. How are you? Very nice to meet you,\u201d Barron said.<\/p>\n The video, posted on X, spread worldwide, and fans quickly commented on Barron and his voice.<\/p>\nMelania Trump \u2018expected to mainly live in New York\u2019 during Donald\u2019s presidency<\/h2>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not anxious because this time is different\u201d<\/h2>\n
Melania Trump won\u2019t let her son Barron live at a dorm<\/h2>\n
\u201cShe wants to encourage him to make friends\u201d<\/h2>\n
Melania Trump was \u201cprepared to chop off anyone at the knees\u201d who went after Barron<\/h2>\n
Barron Trump has changed his accent<\/h2>\n