Donald and Melania Trump welcomed their son Barron in 2006

Donald Trump’s youngest son, Barron, grew up in the White House, but he’s mostly lived outside of the spotlight.

Shortly after the former president tied the knot with his wife, Melania Trump, in 2005, the couple learned they were expecting a baby. Barron was born on March 20, 2006, becoming Donald’s fifth child and Melania’s first.

Barron spent his childhood at his family’s lavish penthouse in New York City while attending prestigious private schools on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. When Donald was elected president and began his term in January 2017, Barron and Melania stayed behind in Manhattan so that he could finish the school year. That summer, he enrolled at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School in Maryland and officially moved into the White House with the rest of the family.

While Donald’s older children — Ivanka, Donald Trump Jr., Eric and Tiffany — took a more hands-on role in their father’s presidency, Barron’s privacy was heavily guarded.

Amid the twice-impeached former president’s legal issues — including lawsuits and investigations at both the state and federal level — a source told PEOPLE in March 2023 that “Barron has always been a first priority in [Melania’s] life.”

“Of course she is worried and concerned about the legal issues, but she has not done anything more to protect Barron now than she ever did,” the insider added. “She has always put him first. She is a good mother.”

In May 2024, Barron graduated from high school.

Here’s everything to know about Donald and Melania Trump’s son Barron.

Donald was surprised to find out Melania was expecting

In 2005, Donald and Melania discovered they were expecting their first child together about six months after their wedding. While looking back on the moment she told Donald she was pregnant, Melania admitted her husband was a bit taken aback by the news.

“He came home [one day last August], and I told him he’d be a daddy. And his reaction was … at first he needed to take it in. It was a real surprise. And then he was very happy,” she shared with PEOPLE.

Donald added, “I expected we were going to have children, so I wasn’t totally surprised. But I was surprised by the speed of it. It happened very quickly.”

He was born in March 2006

On March 20, 2006, Melania gave birth to Barron, with the little boy weighing in at 8 lbs. 8 oz. Donald chose not to be present in the delivery room, explaining he thought it would be “easier” for Melania if he wasn’t there. Melania later said that her eight hour labor was, in fact, “very, very easy.”

“Everyone’s perfect. She’s really happy and it’s really great,” Donald told PEOPLE following the birth.

Donald was the one to choose Barron’s name, as he had always liked it but hadn’t had the chance to use it for his other sons. Melania was on board — but at the last minute, Donald had second thoughts about the name.

“It’s a name I’ve always loved but I never had the courage to use. I gave the idea to Melania and then I was going to take it away at the very end and she said, ‘You can’t take it away! I’ve been calling him Barron while he’s been in my stomach and you just can’t take it away!’ ” Donald said on The Oprah Winfrey Show.

He attended school in New York, Maryland and Florida

Growing up, Barron has attended numerous prestigious schools. While living in New York City, he was enrolled at Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. After Donald began his presidential term in January 2017, Barron remained in N.Y.C., finishing out the school year.

During Barron’s final year at Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School, he took his entire fifth-grade class on a trip to Washington.

A group of about 80 students joined Barron (along with teachers and Secret Service agents) on an excursion to the White House, where they met Barron’s father. The group also toured the nation’s capital and stayed overnight at a hotel before returning home.

Then in May 2017, it was announced that Barron would be attending St. Andrew’s Episcopal School in Potomac, Maryland.

Tuition at St. Andrew’s cost the Trumps about $40,000 a year. Barron’s enrollment marked a departure from the precedent set by previous first families — including the Obamas, Bushes and Clintons — who sent their children to Sidwell Friends, a private Quaker school located in D.C. and Bethesda, Maryland.

Following the end of Donald’s presidential term in 2021, it was revealed that Barron would be attending the Oxbridge Academy in Palm Beach, Florida, where he graduated with the class of 2024.

Barron, who turned 18 in March 2024, has yet to announce where he’ll attend college. According to a source, Melania will likely “follow him wherever he goes to school.”

He was nervous about moving into the White House

When Donald was first elected president, he shared that Barron was hesitant about leaving his life in N.Y.C. and moving into the White House. He explained that the then 9-year-old loved New York and his school, and the move was a “whole change of life.”

Donald said, “He has a very good school in New York where he has a lot of friends. But I tell him if this happens, Daddy will help people, and can help children like him, and that makes him happy. He’s a young boy who is 9 years old and he is strong and smart and he gets it. He sees it.”

Former first daughters Chelsea Clinton and Jenna Bush Hager came to his defense

While his father was in office, Barron faced attacks online.

Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton came to his defense. Amid the online bullying, Chelsea tweeted on several occasions, asking others to give Barron the chance to grow up without so much criticism.

“It’s high time the media & everyone leave Barron Trump alone & let him have the private childhood he deserves,” Clinton wrote in response to a negative article about Barron.

Jenna Bush Hager, another former first daughter, also spoke out about how the attacks on Barron made her “mad” because “the truth is, obviously, Barron Trump didn’t ask his dad to run for president. It wasn’t his decision.”

He speaks both English and Slovenian

Barron is bilingual and can speak both English and Melania’s native Slovenian. As a little boy, Melania says Barron often called his grandmother and spoke to her exclusively in Slovenian. While Melania was a proponent of Barron speaking multiple languages, she noted that she’s on the same page as her husband as to what language Barron should be using in public.

“My opinion is that more languages you speak, better it is, but when you come to America, you speak English,” she told PEOPLE.

Melania is incredibly protective of him

Throughout Melania’s career as a model, she was known to keep to herself. Even during her time as First Lady, she primarily spent time with her family instead of friends. Now that Donald is out of office, sources have told PEOPLE that Melania is still very private and keeps a close eye on Barron.

“Melania’s friends are her family members,” a source shared in 2023. “Many Mar-a-Lago Club members and others know and see Melania. But they aren’t friends. They don’t get together and gab or socialize. She has always surrounded herself with family. She is a doting mother to Barron and very protective of him. This is nothing new.”

The insider added that Melania’s parents, who live at the Trump family property in Mar-a-Lago, “are also close to Barron and have been instrumental in his rearing.”

In March 2024, a social and political source told PEOPLE that “Melania’s main job is taking care of Barron.”

“Barron is shy and reserved, and she has been a good mother to him all of these years,” the source said, adding, “Melania is all about Barron and her family. She has always been family-oriented, and in addition to some of the charity work she has done, staying ahead of family issues is her priority.

Donald says Barron is 6 feet, 7 inches tall

According to comments Donald made while speaking at his presidential campaign headquarters in Des Moines, Iowa, in January 2024, his teenage son is already towering over him at 6 feet, 7 inches. He attributes Barron’s height to him eating all of the food that his late grandmother, Melania’s mother Amalija Knavs, would make for him.

The Daily Mail reported that Donald called Barron a “special boy” during his speech, adding, “‘I said you’re gonna be a basketball player. He said, ‘well I like soccer dad, actually.’ I thought … at your height I like basketball better but you can’t talk them into everything.”

He attended his first campaign rally in July 2024

Barron joined his dad on the campaign trail in July 2024. While in Doral, Fla., Donald noted from the podium that it was his son’s first-ever rally.

“You’re pretty popular, he might be more popular than Don and Eric,” he said. “So Barron, it’s good to have you. [He’s] had such a nice, easy life. Now, it’s a little bit changed.”

 

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Barron Trump to step into the political arena as a Florida delegate at the Republican convention

 

The position as an at-large delegate for the Florida Republican Party will be the highest-profile political role thus far for Barron, former President Donald Trump’s youngest son.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — It will soon be Barron Trump’s time to step into the political spotlight.

Trump, former President Donald Trump’s youngest child, who will graduate from high school next week and has largely been kept out of the political spotlight, was picked by the Republican Party of Florida on Wednesday night as one of the state’s at-large delegates to the Republican National Convention, according to a list of delegates obtained by NBC News.

“We have a great delegation of grassroots leaders, elected officials and even Trump family members,” Florida GOP chairman Evan Power said. “Florida is continuing to have a great convention team, but more importantly we are preparing to win Florida and win it big.”

Trump’s position as a delegate will be his highest-profile political role thus far.

In a family full of politically involved children, Barron Trump, who turned 18 in March, has retained much more of a private life than his older brothers, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., both of whom will also be Florida at-large RNC delegates, along with Trump’s daughter Tiffany.

He was pulled into political headlines last month at the start of his father’s New York criminal trial related to hush money payments to an adult film star ahead of the 2016 election.

The former president’s attorneys argued that he should be allowed a break from trial to attend Barron Trump’s May 17 high school graduation, which Judge Juan Merchan agreed to allow.

A Trump campaign spokesman did not reply to a request for comment.

The Trump family will have an outsize impact on Florida’s RNC delegation.

Eric Trump, the delegation’s chairman, joined Power, the state GOP chairman, on a phone call with party leaders Wednesday night.

Donald Trump has won the state twice, including by more than 3 percentage points during his 2020 failed re-election bid, and the state party has largely lined up behind his presidential bid this year even before he has been formally nominated.

The party was put in a difficult position this cycle with Gov. Ron DeSantis also running for the GOP presidential nomination, but even with their home-state governor in the race, Florida party officials signaled they would back Trump.

In September, party leaders voted to remove a loyalty pledge requirement that would have required GOP presidential candidates to support the eventual Republican nominee to be on the state’s March 19 primary ballot. The proposal was supported by Trump but openly opposed by DeSantis’ campaign.

Beyond Trump family members, the Florida GOP approved several of the former president’s top supporters as RNC at-large delegates.

Others include Kimberly Guilfoyle, Donald Trump Jr.’s fiancée; Michael Boulous, Tiffany Trump’s husband; former state Attorney General Pam Bondi, a longtime Trump ally who has run pro-Trump super PACs; longtime Trump adviser Sergio Gor; former Marvel Entertainment Chairman Ike Perlmutter, a prominent Trump donor; and a series of state-level Republican politicians who took the risk of endorsing Trump over DeSantis.

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