Melania Trump says her adult son Barron, who turns 20 in March, still requires full-time motherly love.
The first lady made the comment while promoting her new documentary, “Melania,” which features her in the weeks leading up to her husband’s second inauguration last year.
“You need to be there for a child nonstop, especially when they need you, especially at that age that Barron is,” Melania said in a Thursday morning interview on Fox Business.
Barron is Melania’s only child with President Trump, who has four other children from his previous two marriages.
The 19-year-old political scion is enjoying his second year at the NYU Stern School of Business, though he reportedly left the Manhattan campus in September to instead attend classes at NYU’s D.C. campus, closer to his parents.
Despite his family constantly being under a spotlight, Barron tends to keep a low profile. That includes refraining from interviews and engaging in social media.
When Trump was elected president for the first time in 2016, Melania and Barron remained in New York City for several months so the fifth-grader could finish the school year at Columbia Prep.
A source told the Daily News that Melania was concerned her son wouldn’t have “the same relationship with new teachers” in D.C. that he enjoyed on the Upper West Side.
Barron was invited to serve as a GOP delegate when his dad received the 2024 Republican party nomination, but his mother told NPR that her son had “prior commitments” that prohibited him from joining his other siblings onstage at the convention.
He made his MAGA rally debut in July 2024, where he was enthusiastically cheered but still didn’t speak.
It’s unclear how prominently the 6-foot 7-inch heir to the Trump fortune figures into the “Melania” documentary.
“Everyone wants to know, so here it is,” she cryptically says in a trailer for the film that includes clips of the elusive mother and son together.
A premiere screening of the film was scheduled to take place at the Kennedy Center on Thursday, prior to the movie opening nationwide on Friday.
