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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Normal for his place in society. Quit the grumbling and take a good long look at the other Trump children and how great they turned out to be.
His other kids?
They look like mobsters.
Even a handful of libs could go out of their way to make faces at him (surrounded by SS) and influence others to do the same.
Good...Barron doesn’t need to go to the Sidwell Marxist School. Barron has his own floor at Trump Tower, I mean, if I had a whole floor to myself, I wouldn’t move, either.
Yes, I understood your reason for homeschooling. Guess I misinterpreted your reason for saying “I would never presume to prescribe it because it would be convenient for others.” Sorry if so.
I really think their being at the White House is fitting, not merely that it “looks fitting.” Otherwise, Mr. Trump could just stay all four years (maybe 8) at his NY residence and govern from there.
I had seen those———as I said,there are few of them
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From the example of the Obama girls and Friends, I would not recommend the school to anyone!
My Special Ed teacher niece suggests that maybe he is slightly autistic?<<<
I was thinking he had some sort of special issjes as well, but didn’t know what they were.
It is the decision of the Trump family to make and is nobody else’s business!
Yep.
And would be more considerate of fellow NYers to take the kid down midyear, like all presidents have done.
But maybe it could get us away from the obligatory president’s spouse routine.
Obama is staying in DC so their daughter can finish school with her friends and the media thinks this is so wonderful of them. The Trumps won’t get the same treatment.
Agreed!
He’s a giant! Ten years old and already 5’10”.
“Their lives, their choices.”
You are 100% correct and as someone believing in freedom of the individual I support that choice. I also support the choice of Trump turning his business interests over to his children instead of a blind trust. Again, his decision.
All I am saying is I would make a different choice under the circumstances. Again a difference of opinion.
I think we have to be prepared for an unconventional Presidency in many ways. I also think America will be better for it.
Thank you for your courtesy. You are correct. What I was trying to imply was that the Trumps should chose homeschooling only if they believed it best for their child and family not because it would be more convenient for people outside their family or for a narrative.
Obama has refused to allow the upgrades to proceed until after he leaves office.
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Rather like removing keys from computers! Childishness is ingrained in Democrats.
Gives the youngster a chance for a normal life.
“Living in a luxury high-rise and attending an exclusive academy.
Normal.”
Mom (NONWORKING) driving her Lexus to kid’s school each AM. Picking up mid afternoon and driving home to 3 or 4 thousand sq.ft home with playground,sauna and pool in back yard. NORMAL ?
Lotsa room tween all those things and the 1/2 of AMERICA that doesn’t have a spare 1000 bucks for emergencies !!
Malia’s already graduated, but yeah, Sasha is there for a few more years. I hadn’t thought of that.
How many would we find of most 10 year olds on the internet? I share your concern that Baron’s privacy & comfort be protected. Rumors are easy to start and difficult to quell.
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