Melania Trump will direct her son Barron’s future as he prepares to graduate from high school on Friday, keeping him in her protective sights as he navigates the transition from adolescence to adulthood.
The former first lady has kept herself and her 18-year-old son in a “tight bubble” behind the ornate doors of Mar-a-Lago, according to people close to the couple.
And that will continue for the foreseeable future.
“Melania will keep her hand in Barron’s future as much in the future as she has during his early and current school years,” he said. social source told People. ‘He is his world. She is proud of him and is the main person who makes decisions about Barron and his future.
Melania Trump, seen above with her husband Donald Trump and their son Barron, will direct her son’s future as he prepares to graduate from high school.
Melania has already demonstrated her maternal power.
Barron last week turned down the Florida Republican Party’s offer to be a delegate to the Republican National Convention this summer, where he could help nominate the elder Donald Trump as the party’s presidential candidate.
His mother’s office made the announcement.
“While Barron is honored to have been chosen as a delegate for the Republican Party of Florida, he regrettably declines to participate due to prior commitments,” Melania Trump’s office told DailyMail.com.
No further details were given.
Barron graduates from Oxbridge Academy in West Palm Beach on Friday.
“He’s still young and has a lot ahead of him,” the source said. ‘She wants him to be happy and calm in his future projects. She wants him to pursue what she wants to do. He’s smart and has his own opinions, but they’re still being molded.’
Little is known about Barron’s school life or his post-high school plans.
And that’s how Melania prefers it. She is known to be protective of her son, keeping him out of the spotlight even when Donald Trump seeks him out.
Although the 6-foot-7 teen favors his father physically, on the inside he is his mother’s son.
‘It’s so majestic. “He’s a bit Melania,” a source close to the couple told DailyMail.com of Trump’s youngest son.
Barron was only 10 years old when his father was elected president.
Donald Trump has revealed that his youngest son is considering which university he might attend. But, he noted, protests on campus have been a factor in that decision.
‘He is now a senior in high school and will go to college. And you know, a lot of these college options are changing because you see what’s happening in the last month,” Trump told a Philadelphia radio station.
Trump has criticized the pro-Palestine protests that have appeared on college campuses across the country. He told Time magazine that he would call in the National Guard.
Barron is considering New York University, the Daily Beast reported, but the school has seen its share of protesters and arrests by the NYPD.
Donald Trump and many of his children attended Penn State. There have been rumors that Barron could join that tradition.
The Trump family has not made any announcements about where Barron will go.
Melania Trump, as first lady, largely kept Barron out of the spotlight; above, then-President Donald Trump with his wife and son in August 2020
Barron Trump graduates from high school on Friday
Previously, Barron has been the target of social media trolls.
Former NBC News executive Mike Sington said Barron was “fair game” turning 18, the birthday that marks adulthood. He later deleted the tweet after facing harsh backlash and criticism online.
The younger Trump was defended by many of his former first-born children, including Chelsea Clinton.
“I think he’s a private citizen,” he told ABC’s The View. “I firmly believe that if you are a private citizen, you have an unimpeachable right to privacy, and I think the media should leave it alone.”
And, last year, a Chicago woman was arrested for threatening to kill Barron.
But Donald Trump revealed that Barron likes politics and likes to give advice to his father.
‘He really has been a great student. And he likes politics. It’s kind of funny,” the former president told ‘Kayal and Company’ on Talk Radio 1210 WPHT in Philadelphia.
“Sometimes he tells me, ‘Dad, this is what you have to do,'” he added.
Melania Trump is known to be a protective mother of her son Barron, who was 10 years old when his father became president; above she fixes his tie on inauguration day
Barron was at his father’s presidential announcement in 2016 and attended the Republican National Conventions in both 2016 and 2020.
He was not at his father’s 2024 announcement at Mar-a-Lago.
The former president also praised his 6-foot-7 son’s appearance.
It’s a bit tall. “I’ll tell you he’s tall, but he’s a handsome guy,” Trump said.
Barron, who turned 18 last month, returned to the spotlight with Donald Trump’s secret trial when the former president argued that he should be allowed a break from the trial to attend Barron Trump’s high school graduation on may 17th.
Judge Juan Merchán agreed to allow the trial to be interrupted.
But even as public interest in Barron grows, Melania fights for her privacy and to protect her family.
On Mother’s Day, Donald Trump had lunch at Mar-a-Lago, where he was surrounded by supporters.
But there was no sign of Melania or Barron in the many videos and photos posted to social media that day from the private Palm Beach club.
It was the former first lady’s first Mother’s Day without her own mother, Amalija Knavs, who died in January.
She is still mourning.