What's life like after spending several years living in the White House? Especially if you
were a teenager when you lived there? We have an idea of what Barron Trump was up to.
During the four years that Donald Trump was president, former first lady Melania Trump made
sure that her only child, son Barron Trump, kept a pretty low profile. While he occasionally appeared
for such events as the annual White House Easter Egg Roll and was seen on the White House balcony
with his parents for the 2017 solar eclipse, the young man kept to himself for the most part. But
that doesn't mean he wasn't spending time enjoying the things that boys his age typically do.
Growing up in the White House is a rare thing for any adolescent,
and, in modern times, it's been especially rare for a boy. In fact, Barron, now 15,
was the first boy to live in the White House since John F. Kennedy Jr. in the 1960s.
Like other White House kids before him, Barron Trump got up and left home each morning to attend
school. However, he broke with presidential kid tradition, and, rather than going to the Sidwell
School in D.C. like Malia and Sasha Obama and Chelsea Clinton, Barron went to school
right outside the city at St. Andrew's Episcopal School in Potomac, Maryland.
In fact, Barron's schooling was so important to his mother that he lived in the White House for
a shorter period of time than other presidential kids. Melania claimed she wanted Barron to finish
the school year in his native New York City when Donald Trump was first elected,
so she and her son didn't even move into the White House until June 2017.
When Melania Trump gave a speech at Liberty University in Virginia in 2018 and spoke of
her son, she said he was not a social media addict like other kids his age but instead liked sports.
"He's not interested in it. He's all into sport."
During a 2019 interview with Face the Nation,
Donald Trump shared that his son loves soccer, and that was apparent in 2017
when he got to play the game with members of Washington, D.C.'s professional soccer team.
"And he actually plays a lot of soccer. He's liking soccer."
Players from D.C. United were on hand at the White House's annual Easter Egg Roll, and Barron got the
chance to kick the ball around with them. Team forward Patrick Mullins told The Washington Post,
"He was very knowledgeable about soccer, knew about D.C. United and was interested to know more.
Little kid to have a passion for the game and to be knowledgeable and have a conversation with us,
it makes me feel good about kids growing up playing the game."
With Donald and Melania Trump often taking weekend getaways to one of Trump's many golf courses,
Barron Trump was sometimes photographed leaving with them on Marine One,
the official presidential helicopter. Through the years, it was easy to see how tall the young
man was getting. Barron now stands at 6 feet, 7 inches high and towers over both of his parents.
However, Barron was conspicuously missing on Jan. 20, 2021, when both of his parents
boarded Air Force One on a one-way trip to Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach
as Trump's presidency came to an end. Onlookers wondered where Barron could be.
It turns out that he boarded the plane early, before any cameras showed up. It seems the former
president didn't want to share the spotlight as he made his final departure from the White House.
After leaving the White House behind, Melania Trump, who still has access to Twitter although
her husband does not, wished her son a happy 15th birthday in March 2021. She posted a photo
of balloons and a simple message using the initials for Barron William Trump, writing,
"Happy Birthday BWT."
At just 15, Barron still has some growing up to do,
and the rest of his youth will be spent away from Washington, D.C. He now lives in Florida,
at Donald's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, and attends school nearby.
In August 2021, local Florida station WFLA reported that Barron was about to start school at
Oxbridge Academy, an exclusive private institution founded by Bill Koch, brother to famed political
donors Charles and David Koch. And, of course, he always has Secret Service surrounding him,
even in class, because that's what life is like for the son of a former president.
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