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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Leftist hypocritical US Media will now make huge hay of the notion that their marriage is somehow fundamentally different than most.
Homeschooling is a great option. Study and then have his friends come by to play. Surely some staff members have children his age.
I AGREE .. And, since the Oval Office will be torn apart for almost a year, it will be noisy and ripe with debris from the work. and, the President will have to be housed across the street from the WH, in the Executive Office Building .. giving the First Family little access to him.
I think her point is well taken. After the school year is out, there still may be a few months before the Oval Office will be finished. Trump has proven he can work out of Trump Tower .. so why move the family.
How thoughtful of Obama to wait until the election to have this work done - while the approval has been done for quite some time. Such a petty, little man.
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
If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything becomes a nail
Yes we moved several times when I was a kid and I adapted and made new friends.
I have heard the rumors that Barron is s!ightly autistic. Who knows but they have special schools in DC.
Part of being President is living in the Whitehouse and personally that’s what I expect.
Sidwell Friends is but one of many such private schools in the DC area. It would not be my first choice for a private school for a son of Baron’s age.
All similar private schools there have easily secured, restricted campus designs.
“3am...”
Yep - as I watched him during the acceptance speech, at one point he appeared to almost fall asleep on his feet...
My thoughts exactly but it does make sense.
I agree about beautifying the white house once again. The glimpses I had seen, included an awful lot of junk art! The White House should be kept in the traditional style for those public rooms, including the oval office. Let the part time “tenants” only personalize their own living quarters.
I really don’t know all that much about the Trump family. They know, and they make their own decisions.
Why can’t public schools be like these private schools?
Why do you care?
Secret Service nightmare and how much will it cost taxpayers?
The current FLOTUS seems to have a revolving account at Value City Furniture.
I feel for the youngster, if he does have health problems. Part of the issue of women having children after their mid-30s is that the rate of birth defects doubles. A different time (one to which we *can* go back), my mother had all four siblings between 19 and 26, and that was best for her physically, best for mom & dad as parents, and best for us a children, as we benefitted from good health for us and healthy parents as we grew up.
I do. He’s going to be busy. The family lives in a tower. It’s defensible.
He looks painfully shy to me. I know the look because I was, and still am, that way in public places. School was especially painful for me. I was an excellent student but didn’t make many friends, wasn’t in any clubs, etc. I was always a loner.
Their lives, their choices.
You mean worse than the current potus' brats going to messyco and commandeering a whole hotel while SS had to get a dozen armored SUVs down there? That kind of nightmare? And all at our expense.
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