Barron Trump, the son of US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump, made a rare appearance at his father’s inauguration on Monday, January 20, and stood out among the crowd.
Much taller than he was during his father’s first term as president, Barron’s towering height quickly caught the attention of viewers everywhere. He sat with his mother, Melania, and his father in the rotunda of the US Capitol, in a room crowded with his family members and his father’s supporters.
Trump’s youngest son, 18, was wearing a blue suit, dark blue tie, white shirt and slicked-back hair. During the swearing-in ceremony, Barron stood behind the president’s podium, towering over his father as he watched him take the oath of office for the second time.
According to what was reported by several news agencies. Barron’s height is six feet seven inches.
He turns 19 in March, but was just 10 the last time his father took the presidential oath in 2017. He wasn’t in the political spotlight during his father’s first presidential election like his older siblings (Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr.) Eric and Tiffany were…
Barron graduated from Oxbridge Academy in West Palm Beach, Florida, last spring and is now attending his first year of college at New York University’s Stern School of Business.
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Trump previously spoke about Barron’s choice of school, saying: “He got accepted to a lot of colleges. He’s a very smart guy, and he’s going to Stern School of Business, which is a great school at NYU.
Although he will be in Manhattan for school, his mother, Melania It was said before Fox News’ Foxes and friends Co-host Ainsley Earhardt said her son would have a place to stay at the White House whenever he wanted.
“Whatever he wants to do,” Melania said. “I feel like kids, we have kids until they are 18 or 19. We teach them, guide them and then give them wings to fly.
“I always respect Barron’s yes and no answers, what he likes to do, and where he likes to be,” she added.
Melania also revealed that she will be living in the White House, but will also be traveling back and forth from New York and Palm Beach.
“I will be in the White House,” she said. “And when I need to be in New York, I’ll be in New York. When I need to be in Palm Beach, I’ll be in Palm Beach. My first priority is to be a mother, to be a first lady, and to be a wife.”
Barron has gone viral several times since his father first took office in 2017. His last viral moment was in November 2024, after TikTok users remixed a clip of Barron as a child, talking to his mother, Melania.
He spoke with a Slovenian accent and appeared in his father’s office carrying a briefcase. “I love my bag,” he says in the clip, before asking his mother, “Should I go to school now?”
Paris Hilton posted a video of herself riding her robotic bag to the tune of Baron’s remix, saying, “I love my bag.”
Barron will reportedly follow in his father’s footsteps after graduating from Stern School of Business. According to Newsweek, it is will be launched His own real estate company filed paperwork in Wyoming for the project, called Trump, Fulcher & Roxburgh Capital Inc. on July 14, 2024. The company’s main address is listed as his father’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.
It was later reported that the company itself was dissolved on November 14, following Trump’s victory over former US Vice President Kamala Harris. But Cameron Roxburgh, one of Barron’s business partners, said there are plans to “relaunch” the real estate business in the spring after Trump takes office and claims they decided to dissolve the company to avoid any media attention during the election.
Aside from his future business ventures, Barron allegedly helped his father with his presidential campaign. His parents and Trump officials credit him with recommending the podcast that is popular with young people and on which Trump appeared on the campaign trail.
Trump said Barron helped introduce him to people he had never heard of before. “It was very good,” Trump told NBC News. In a phone interview. “It’s the new wave. And he was very helpful.”
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— With files from The Associated Press
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