Barron Trump is Trump’s youngest son and has spent time in New York City, the White House and Mar-a-Lago. Trump has largely stayed out of the political spotlight, but he is starting to take on a bigger role. Read below to learn more about him. School, family, and time as the first children in this country.
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Barron Trump’s life has been shrouded in privacy. But now that he’s officially an adult and his father, former President Donald Trump, is running for president again, Barron Trump is back in the public eye.
The youngest Trump spent much of his childhood in Manhattan, waiting five months after his father’s inauguration to move into the White House. He has largely stayed out of the political spotlight until now, but attended his first campaign rally in July 2024.
Now officially an adult, the 18-year-old is a freshman at New York University’s Stern School of Business. He did not live on campus and spent his first day surrounded by Secret Service agents.
Here’s everything you need to know about Trump’s New York City upbringing, political involvement, and personal life.
Barron Trump’s childhood and family
Barron Trump was born on March 20, 2026 in New York City. He is the only child of Donald Trump and former first lady Melania Trump. Melania said she was “really surprised” when the couple found out they were expecting a baby about six months after they got married.
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Donald Trump wasn’t in the delivery room when Barron Trump was born, but he chose his name. Barron Trump weighed 8 pounds, 8 ounces. He was 6 feet 7 inches tall when he was born. He is President Trump’s youngest child and has four half-siblings: Ivanka, Donald Jr., Eric, and Tiffany. There is a large age difference between the children, with Barron Trump being between 13 and 29 years younger than his siblings.
Barron Trump was born on March 20, 2006. Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images
Trump became an uncle when he was still a baby. He has four nieces who are just one year younger than him.
Trump lived in Trump Tower in New York City throughout his childhood. According to his mother, he enjoyed having the entire floor to himself and painting. Melania Trump said in an interview that she calls her son “Little Donald” because he looks like his father.
Trump attended Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School on Manhattan’s Upper West Side until the end of the fifth grade. Elementary and middle school tuition will cost $64,340 in the 2024-2025 school year, according to the school’s website.
At 6 feet 7 inches tall, Barron Trump is taller than his father. Mega/Getty Images
Barron Trump’s White House and High School days
Trump was 9 years old when his father was elected president. It is common for a president’s immediate family to join the White House after the inauguration, but Trump and his mother broke tradition and waited five months before moving to Washington. During those months, Trump completed fifth grade at Columbia Grammar. During his last year at school, his entire class went to Washington, D.C., to meet the president.
Barron Trump didn’t move in until five months after his father moved into the White House. Mark Wilson/Getty Images
On June 11, 2017, the young Trump entered the White House with his father. He attended St. Andrew’s Episcopal, a preparatory school in Maryland. Middle school tuition was $49,680 for the 2024-2025 school year, according to the school’s website. Most other presidents, including Clinton, Bush, and Obama, sent their children to Sidwell Friends, a private Quaker school.
Melania Trump protected her son’s privacy while in Washington. When Donald Trump left office and moved to Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, Barron went with him. He enrolled at Oxbridge Academy for high school, but his high school tuition for 2025-2025 was $41,500. Trump will graduate on May 17, 2024, and his father took time off from his hush money trial to attend the ceremony.
Barron Trump graduated from Oxbridge Academy in May 2024. Giorgio Vieira
Barron Trump’s political role
Although he was the only one of the siblings to live in the White House, the youngest Trump generally avoided political scrutiny during his time in Washington. He performed at several holiday events, including the annual Easter Egg Roll and the 2017 Thanksgiving Turkey Pardon.
But since his father left office, Trump has begun tiptoeing into the political arena. In May 2024, media outlets announced that he had been selected as an at-large delegate for Florida to the Republican National Convention. But just two days later, Melania Trump’s office announced that her son would not be attending, citing prior commitments. Other members of the Trump family were delegates from Florida.
Mr. Trump attended his first campaign rally in Doral, Florida on July 9, 2024. In the photo, he was seen smiling and shaking his fist.
“You’re pretty popular. He might be more popular than Don or Eric,” the former president joked at the rally. He has previously said his youngest son is interested in politics and occasionally gives him advice on campaigns. Barron Trump reportedly advised his father to sit in on an interview with Adin Roth, a prominent streamer whose audience is predominantly male and conservative.
While his father was president, the younger Trump dealt with online attacks, and his former firstborn children rushed to his defense. The attacks continued even after the Trump family left Washington, and in 2023, a woman sent a death threat to a then-high school student.
Barron Trump attended his first campaign rally in July 2024. AP Photo/Marta Lavandier
Barron Trump’s youth and personal life
There was a lot of speculation about where President Trump would attend college, and in September 2024, the nation got the answer: New York University’s Stern School of Business. The former president called New York University a “very high quality place” and said his son has been accepted to a variety of schools. Trump does not live on campus, but lives and attends school in Trump Tower. He spent his first day surrounded by Secret Service agents.
Barron Trump is currently attending New York University’s Stern School of Business. Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images
Trump appears to be close to his mother and is fluent in Slovenian, her native language. However, much of his personal life is unknown. He did not have a social media account until September 2024, but he created one on X (formerly known as Twitter) to attend an event about his father’s new cryptocurrency platform.
If Trump becomes a first-born child again, he could become the subject of even more public and political speculation.
