The NY Post1 announced Sunday that President-elect Donald Trump’s 10 year old son Barron “will not be moving to the White House” in January. Trump, 70, confirmed that his wife and son would stay in New York until “he’s finished with school.”
Barron and Melania, 46, will remain in New York City so that Barron can continue attending Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School, a private school on the Upper West Side.
The decision to remain in their Midtown home will increase the security presence around Trump Tower — an effort that will involve both Secret Service and the NYPD, an expert familiar with high-level security told The Post.
It is unprecedented for a wife not to live in the White House. George and Martha Washington did not live there because it had not been built. William Henry Harrison, the ninth president of the United States, died one month after he was sworn in. His wife Anna had not yet joined him at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Only Democrats (Kennedy, Carter, Clinton and Obama) have brought young children into the White House since Teddy Roosevelt left the White House in 1909. Electing 70-year-old man who has a 10-year-old son is outside the norm.
In January 2009, Sasha, 7, and Malia, 10, Obama resumed post-holiday classes at Sidwell Friends—a private Quaker school with a long list of alumni from political families. Michelle Obama and the girls flew in from Chicago over the weekend before school started on January 5.
Sasha was the youngest child to reside in the White House since Caroline Kennedy and John F. Kennedy, Jr. Who are the other children who moved to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?
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[1] The New York Post is owned by Rupert Murdoch and News Corp. The tabloid ranks seventh in circulation among U.S. newspapers.
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