Posted on 11/20/2016 6:59:04 AM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Future First Lady Melania Trump and son Barron will not be moving to the White House after Donald Trump’s inauguration in January, The Post has learned.
The president-elect’s 46-year-old wife and their 10-year-old son are staying put at the family’s glitzy Trump Tower penthouse so that Barron can continue attending his Upper West Side private school, sources told The Post.
“Melania is extremely close to Barron, and they have become closer during the campaign,” said a source close to Trump’s transition team. “The campaign has been difficult for Barron, and she is really hoping to keep disruption to a minimum.”
Another source said Melania Trump will travel to the White House as needed, but that her primary focus is on Barron.
“Melania is very supportive of her husband and is fully on board of doing everything that’s needed as first lady,” said the second source familiar with the Trump transition.
That source said also that there is a possibility that Melania and Barron may move to the White House at the end of the school year, but no plans are in place.
“She is really devoted to Barron,” said a source close to the family, adding that Melania has not relied on nannies to raise the child and is frequently seen picking the fourth-grader up from his prep school, where tuition is north of $40,000.
The decision to remain in their Midtown home will increase the security presence around Trump Tower — an effort that will involve both Secret Service and the NYPD, an expert familiar with high-level security told The Post.
“That building is going to become the White House of New York,” said Jim Reese, a former Delta Force commander and president of TigerSwan, a global security company based in North Carolina.
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Her priorities are squared away.
Saw this one coming
Security nightmare?
The Dems will no doubt find this reprehensible…as they do everything Pres. Trump and his beloved family will do...because wouldn’t everyone LOVE to live in that Democrat Paradise on the Potomac?
Gives the youngster a chance for a normal life.
Living in a luxury high-rise and attending an exclusive academy.
Normal.
I’m fine with this. I imagine the feminists will be upset. Melania is making a choice that any mother has a right to make. But the feminists always seem to want to force women out of the home and into public spaces. In the name of personal freedom, of course.
Good for her. Doing what’s best for Barron.
Melania doesn’t want to move to a smaller house or to a ghetto neighborhood.
Leftist hypocritical US Media will now make huge hay of the notion that their marriage is somehow fundamentally different than most.
bigly.
true class.
Making family life great again.
And DJT will be there in New York quite a bit, believe me.
The Obama girls almost certainly had the same. Did the Post see the need to point that out like it was some sort of burden on the taxpayers?
She doesn’t want her child to change schools in mid year
The boy looked distressed on election night
We do not know what the trumps know about their child’s needs
It’s normal for him. Why uproot him in the middle of the school year and ship him to DC away from his friends just because the media might disapprove doing otherwise?
There is another very good reason. If he went to Friends, he would have to associate with the Obama girls and their snobbish friends.
Keeping the lad away from those girls is reason enough
Good! Can you imagine what kind of bullying and torment he would be subject to in DC? He needs to stay in a place with friends and teachers who like him.
It’s normal for him.
Yup.
Yes let's get in the social, racial and class divide. The Trump's elite status is to be contrasted with say the Obamas who send/t their daughters to Sidwell Friends where the tuition in 2016 was a mere $39,360, well south of this $40,000 social water-shed.
The other school where well-heeled DC elites attend is St. Albans [i.e. algore, kerry] with a tuition that falls on the other side of this social divide - $42,484.
2nd or 3rd time since early in USA history has the White House has been in NYC.
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